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variety is most common, and the temperature of those parts 

 vvoulfi he most acceptable, anrl perhaps help to clear up what 

 appears to me a very interesting question. — R. A. Rolfe ; 

 Slufftjnu-ood, near Alansjif^ld. 



Vanessa Aniiopa near Basingstoke. — A fine specimen of 

 this insect was captured for me near this place, by a young 

 friend, on the 17th inst. When given to me it was not quite 

 dead. — W. D. Milsom ; Soul hern Road, Basingstoke, 

 August 23, 1876. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Cheltenham. — This, like most other 

 rarities, fell to my lot quite by accident, and when I was least 

 expecting to make a capture. It was feediug upon the juice 

 which was running down an elm tree, from a place where 

 Cossus larvae were feediug, in one of the public streets of 

 Cheltenham. I climbed up the tree and endeavoiued lo catch 

 it with my hai, as 1 liad no net with me. It escaped, and Hew 

 into a gentleman's garden. Despatching a messenger for a 

 net, in the cause of science I climbed over the palings, and 

 pursued it over the flower-beds, capturing it eventually on 

 some ivy. It w as a fine female, and newly emerged. The 

 date of the capture was the 5th August, 1871. Five other speci- 

 mens were reported, as seen, to our College Natural History 

 Society at Cheltenham ; but n)ine was the only capture. — 

 E. K. Robinson ; Saudctiffe, Rake, near Petersfield. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Filey Bay. — Yesterday, August 15th, 

 whilst in a boat fishing in Filey Bay, I caught a Vanessa 

 Antiopa, which settled on the sail of the boat. — G. D. Arini- 

 iage ; North Da I ton, Hull. 



Colias Edusa and var. Helice in Carmarthenshire. — My 

 brother-in law, Mr. C. A. Lord, this morning captured the 

 first specimen of Colias Edusa that I have seen taken in 

 Carmarthenshire since 1870, in which year males of the 

 species were plentiful in this locality. The specimen taken 

 by Mr. Lord is a female var. Ilelice, and was seen flying 

 along the turnpike road. In the afternoon we repaired to the 

 spot where Edusa had formerly been so abundant, — a sleep 

 hill-side covered with furze bushes, with here and there 

 patches carpeted with flowers, and swarming with insect life. 

 There were butterflies innumerable ; but, being rather late on 

 the ground, we only saw one Edusa, and that of the ordinary 

 type. I have never seen this butterfly on the wing after four 



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