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equally rare in the New Forest : till last week scarcely a 

 dozen specimens of" Napi or Brassicie have 1 seen here, and 

 lla])a3 has been still scarcer ; lately, however, the latter has jtut 

 in abetter appearance. 1 have also noticed that the specimens 

 of Napi and Hapae are much below the average size : 1 cap- 

 tured the s])ecimens for inspection, and found a similar 

 feature in A. Cardamines, which was also very scarce and 

 remarkably small. On ihe whole 1 find it a decidedly bad 

 season for Lepidoptera, also for insects in general. A. Paphia 

 seems the connnoiiest insect out now, and it certainly sits by 

 dozens on all the brambles round here. — H. liumsatj Cox ; 

 LyncUiurst, Augunl 3, 1869. 



Scarcity of While Bulterjlies at Newport, Mon. — I see 

 that P. Rap.Tc and P. Brassicae have been very scarce in 

 London this s])ring and summer. 1 only saw two Rapas up 

 to the lOlh of July, and either one Brassicae or a hybernated 

 G. Khamni — wiiicii I could not say, it being too far off. 1 

 see Rapui is plentiful enough now in clover- fields, but 1 have 

 only seen two or ihiee Brassicae: last season there were 

 thousands here. 1 have not seen C Edusa yet this season, 

 but in 1867, on the 19th of June, a friend and I caught five. 

 1 have found most, insects greatly behind this year. — G. Luck ; 

 Turkish Baths, Dock Street, Newport, Man., August 2. 



Scarcity of Hhile Butterflies in G/uucestershire. — I have 

 observed the scarcity of white butterflies this season. Only 

 a very few of Ra])ce have been seen here, compared to the 

 large numbers wliich appeared last season. 1 do not recol- 

 lect having seen one specimen of Brassicae this summer. — 

 C. J. IVatkius ; Painswick. 



Scarcity of White Bulterjlies, Sfc, near Loudon. — Both the 

 common whites, Brassicae and Rapaj, have been "conspicuous 

 by their absence" wherever 1 have been this season in the 

 vicinity of London in the south and west, and also near 

 Gravesend, in Kent. The first on the wing is usually Rapae, 

 but 1 did not see one throughout April. 1 have nut the date, 

 but think it was near the end of May before they appeared 

 about m\' garden here ; nor did 1 see any about Fulham, 

 Acton, Hammersmith, &c., which 1 occasionally visit. In 

 May (about the middle of the nujnth) there were a tew near 

 Greenhiihe, mostly haunting the woods, which was singular. 

 1 have not yet seen larvae of this species this season. The 



