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from the previous night ; as the tree smelt very strong of rum 

 and sugar it would, no doubt, be a good plan to sugar for 

 them. The specimen is at present in possession of Mr. W. 

 Craft. — Henry Aslipole ; Hyde Road, Hoxton. 



Vanessa Aniiopa in Dumfriesshire. — I have just had 

 given to me a live specimen in fair condition of V. Antiopa, 

 which was captured to-day in the gardener's cottage at 

 Mabie, about five miles from Dumfries. — Robert Service; 

 Maxwelltown, Dumfries, September 22, 1876. 



Papilio Machaon in Sussex. — I vi^as very much surprised 

 to see a fine female specimen of Papilio Machaon flying in a 

 secluded valley branching off from Oxsettle Bottom, near 

 Lewes. I captured her for the sake of making quite certain 

 of the species, but released her in hopes she might found a 

 colony there. I cannot find that P. Machaon has been 

 reared by anyone at Lewes for the last twenty years. The 

 spot in which she was taken is rarely visited by naturalists, 

 except during the period Procris globulariae appears ; and the 

 quiet of the place may be inferred from the fact that I saw 

 those shy birds, Ql^dicnemus crepitans, almost every day on 

 which 1 visited the locality. — J. Jenner Weir ; 6, Haddo 

 Villas, Blackheath. 



Apaiura Iris in Huntingdonshire . — I spent a iew days in 

 search of A. Iris in the middle of July last, and in woods near 

 Huntingdon took the considerable number of twenty-seven 

 specimens — twenty-one males and six females. My two 

 best days were the 18lh and 19th of July, which produced 

 eighteen specimens. I tried carrion, in the shape of several 

 dead hedgehogs, vvhich I distributed about the woods, but 

 only captured one in this way — a fine male. All the rest I 

 took (mostly on the wing) with my net, fixed on an eighteen- 

 feet ash pole. I write this thinking it may interest some of 

 your readers to know that A. Iris is still to be taken in some 

 plenty in our Midland Counties. — Harold Conquest ; West 

 Lodge, Sf. Ami's Road, Stamford Hill, N., September 5, 1876. 



Colias Hyale and C. Edusa. — I should like to add one or 

 two remarks on Mr. Fitch's interesting notes respecting these 

 species being double-brooded ; they may serve to encourage 

 other collectors to give us their experience. Many years 

 ago three of us were collecting in the Isle of Thanet; 

 we all worked hard every day at the clover and lucerne 



