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of the occurrence of this butterfly in Britain ; chiefly from 

 our southern coast. Its natural home is the eastern part of 

 North America ; it has no other permanent habitat. There, 

 in some districts, it is as common as its ally P. cardui is here. 

 On receiving this communication I wrote for further informa- 

 tion to Mr. Bignell. He replies: — "I have made every 

 enquiry, and cannot trace any plant or anything which has 

 been imported from America into the extensive grounds 

 where P. Huntera was taken. The Plymouth docks are — in 

 a direct line — about four miles off"; so that it may have been 

 imported in one of the many troop-ships which lie there." 

 Virgeniensis was first described by Diury, in his ' Illustrations 

 on Natural History,' in 1773; and in 1775 Fabricius 

 described the same species, under the name of Huntera. — 

 John T. Carrington.] 



Vanessa Antiopa in the Isle of Wight. — On the 14th of 

 October Vanessa Antiopa was captured liere by a fisherman. 

 Unfortunately the insect was destroyed before I saw it, and I 

 only saw the remains. — Talbot K. Crossjield ; Shanktin 

 College, Isle of Wight. 



Colias Edusa at Handforth. — Colias Edusa has been seen 

 in some numbers at Handforth, a village in Cheshire, about 

 eleven miles south of Manchester, by a friend of mine while 

 out rabbit-shooting. He saw many, and caught one male, 

 which he brought to me this morning. This is a very 

 unusual occurrence in this neighbourhood. — H. H. Corhett ; 

 Cheadle Hulme, near Stockport, September 20, 1876, 



Colias Edusa var. Helice in South Wales. — I had the 

 pleasure of taking a rather fine female specimen of C. Edusa 

 var. Helice on September 4th, at a small village called 

 Pendine, about fifteen miles from Tenby. As I had no net 

 at that moment, 1 immediately gave chase with my hat, and 

 succeeded in capturing it. When it was on the wing I 

 mistook it for C. Hyale ; but to my great delight it was 

 otherwise. C. Edusa is very plentiful in this locality, and I 

 have reared a good many. — A. E. Wileman ; Langharne 

 Villa, Chertsey Road, Bristol, September 8, 1876. 



Colias Edusa. — About a week ago Mrs. Boley captured a 

 female specimen of Colias Edusa, which, on being confined 

 under a glass shade with some sprigs of lucerne, laid a iew 

 eggs. Some of these eggs have just hatched, and the larvae 



