NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 315 



Entomologists, botanists, and other persons desiring to enter 

 the enclosures in question, should apply for permission to do so 

 at the office of the Deputy Surveyor, Queen's House, Lyndhurst. 

 Of course it is in the power of the Deputy Surveyor or his 

 assistants to refuse such permission when applied for ; but in my 

 twenty-three years' experience of the New Forest, and of the 

 conduct in this respect of the officials at the Queen's House, I 

 am not aware of any instance of such a refusal, 

 Burbiton Hill, Surrey, November 12, 1885. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Vanessa polychloros in London. — Early in the afternoon 

 of the 7 th inst., whilst passing along the south side of Smithfield 

 Meat Market, I observed a large brown butterfly flying slowly 

 about in the sunshine ; presently it settled on the wall of the 

 building, and to my surprise I saw it was a very fair specimen of 

 Vanessa polychloros. — W. G. Sheldon ; The Oval, Addiscombe, 

 Croydon, October 18, 1885. 



Keappearance of Vanessa id in North Kent. — I have 

 already referred in these pages (Entom. xviii. 51) to the paucity 

 or total absence of this bold Vanessa in many localities where it 

 had at one time been abundant; as for instance about the chalk- 

 pits and slopes of Kent. This year I have seen it between 

 Gravesend and Dartford upon ground where I have sought vainly 

 for it since 1879 or 1880. — J. R. S. Clifford ; Gravesend, Oct. 3. 



CoLiAS edusa and C. hyale. — A single specimen of Colias 

 hyale was captured, settled on a flower in a garden at Warley, 

 early in September ; and Colias edusa was seen about the same 

 date in that neighbourhood. C. edusa also occurred near 

 Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, about the middle of August; 

 and I myself in company with a friend took half a dozen 

 specimens in half an hour near Yarmouth (I. W.). My brother, 

 Rev. P. E. Raynor, who was staying at Budleigh Salterton, 

 reported it as abundant there ; and on my sending him twelve 

 glass-topped boxes, promptly returned them to me with twelve 

 live C. edusa. He also tells me he saw a specimen on the wing 

 at Hazeleigh, in Essex. On the whole this seems to have been 



