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(lisa[)]iearaiice of Brassicas was very remarkable, for few 

 oecmreoees in insect life aie more regular than the emergence 

 of this butterfly's pupa dining May or at the end of April. 

 They came not, however, this season, though the larvae were 

 plentiful in the autumn preceding, and were feeding until 

 (piite late in October on the Nasturtium in my garden, some 

 being very young then, others nearly adult. Tlie latter went 

 into pupa; the former, I suspect, died oH' in November, at 

 the coming in of cold weather, though some observer (Jenyns, 

 I think) stales that some larvae of this species hybernate. 

 Unquestionably this is a bad butterfly year, speaking gene- 

 lallv. A. Cardamiues I have not seen at all in the subinban 

 districts about here. The first brood of C. Pamphilus, 

 usually out early in May, on Wimbledon Common was quite 

 three weeks behind time. H. Janira, mostly on the wing 

 there by June 1st, was only represented by a few stragglers 

 towards the end of the month. H. Tithonus was later also, 

 but very abundant. P. Alexis has been very scarce, so far as 

 1 have noticed. All this is doubtless attributable to the 

 double effects of excessive drought last sunnner in destroying 

 many yoimg larvae, and the heavy rainfall during the winter 

 months, likeuise prejudicial in a measure. — J. R. S. CUjfurd; 

 59, Robert Street, C'heUea, Aitgiisi 7, 18()9. 



[These records, elicited by my note, seem to establish the 

 fact that the scarcity of while butterflies this year has been 

 as general as it has been unusual. Many similar records 

 have been received, but waul of sj)ace compels their omission. 

 £. Newtnari.~\ 



Occurrence of Wlilie Bullerjiies at Truro. — 1 have just 

 read your paragraph in the 'Entomologist' on the scarcity of 

 white butterflies, and beg to inibrm you that here P. Rapie 

 abounds. After reading it 1 went out into t'le garden, and 

 was met at the door by a P. Brassicae, though I cannot recollect 

 having seen another this season, but I have nol been on the 

 look out for them. — Arthur P. Ni:v ; Truro, August 1. 



Cidarid reticulata, W. V., at Whideriiiere. — On Jidy 28tli 

 1 beat a female of this species out of mixed underwood near 

 where 1 had taken the species before, in a wood on the banks 

 of Windermere Lake, opposite the town of Bowness. Em- 

 mclesia tieniata and Larentia olivata were line, and not scarce 

 in the woods around Earth waite J^ake on the 27lh, but were 



