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a very fair ye-M' for C. edusa ; but I do not hear of C. hyale being 

 taken elsewhere, except at Warley ; but perhaps some of your 

 correspondents may have seen it. — (Rev.) Gilbert H. Raynor; 

 Shenfield, Brentwood, November 9, 1885. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN SussEX. — 1 took a Very fine female specimen 

 of this butterfly in a garden at Groombridge, on September 8rd ; 

 and on the 15th of the same month saw four specimens on the 

 banks of a disused railway near the same village, some of which 

 I captured. On the 18th I saw three more in the same locality. 

 I also saw a remarkably large specimen in a rough field on the 

 23rd, but unfortunately had no net with me at the time. A friend 

 of mine tells me he found this butterfl}' plentifully in a clover 

 fiekl at Frant, near Tunbridge Wells, about the end of August. — 

 W. H. Blaber; Beckvvorth, Lindfield, Sussex, Nov. 13, 1885. 



Lyc.ena corydon on Barnes Common. — My son captured a 

 male specimen in good condition of L. corydon on Barnes 

 Common, near London, about the end of August last. — 

 H. Sharp; 37, Union Street, Portland Place, W., Oct. 17, 1885. 



Diminutive Diurni. — Whilst in Dorsetshire, during the 

 month of August, I noticed many more small forms than usual 

 of Epinephele tithonus and Lyccena icarus ; and also many amongst 

 Pieris brassicce, napi, and rapcB. The small specimens, however, 

 of L. icarus were very frequent of both sexes, — the males being 

 darker in colour than the full-sized examples, — and often not 

 larger than L. minima [alsus]. Colias edusa, of which I saw many 

 specimens from tiie sea-coast to as far as twenty miles inland, 

 were not large specimens. Would the long period of dry weather 

 have any eff"ect in checking the full development of the imago ? — 

 T. B. Jefferys; Clevedon, October 24, 1885. 



Sphinx convolvuli and Chcerocampa celerio in Sussex. 

 — I have taken this year Sphinx coiwolvidi, September 11th 

 and a beautiful specimen of Choerocampa celerio hovering over 

 phlox, at Firle, September 23rd. — Dover C. Edgell ; Firle, 

 Lewes, October, 1885. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Beckenham. — A fine specimen of 

 Sphinx convolvidl was captured at Beckenham, on September 8th 

 this year, by my sister, who gave it to me alive. I also captured 

 a female specimen of Colias edusa, near the same place, three 

 days later. — G. Bailey; (i, Queen Adelaide Road, Penge, S.E. 



