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Papilio machaon in Surrey. — One seen near East Grinstead about 

 August 20th.— F. W. F. 



Paplio machaon in Worcestershire. — A fine specimen of this 

 butterfly was seen by Dr. Charles, of Grindrod, on August 3 let, settled 

 upon a thistle in the Teme valley, on a marshy spot of ground. — W. 

 Edwards ; Malvern. 



One seen on August 31st near Hartley. — F. VV. Frohawk. 



Late Appearance of Euchloe cardamines. — While in North Corn- 

 wall, on July 10th last, I was surprised to see a male specimen of E. 

 cardamines flying towards me down a lane, and just before it reached me 

 it swerved to the left and disappeared over a high bank; it was then only 

 about four yards distant. I had hoped to take it as a record specimen of 

 late emergence. Previous to this the latest date that I have observed this 

 species was on June 30th, 1885, when I obtained a female example near West 

 Wickhara, Kent. The earliest record I have is that of a male I captured 

 on April 25th, 1880, at Norwood, Surrey ; excepting the early and tropical 

 summer of 1893, when I found cardamines out in numbers on April 22nd 

 in Kent. — F. W. Frohawk ; October, 1900. 



Argynnis AGLAiA VAR. AT DovER. — I received a very fine variety of 

 this species from a Dover correspondent. It was taken by him on July 

 16th last, in the first hollow (Langdon Hole I think it is called) on the east 

 cliff", and was posted to me, unset, soon after capture. It is a male, in very 

 fine condition, and somewhat resembles the figure of adippe (Entom. xv. 

 49), but the black on the upper side is not quite so extended nor clearly 

 defined, while on the under surface the fore wings have more black than 

 said figure, but in the hind wings the silver spots are normal, except those 

 along the outer edge, which are only faintly discernible. — E. Sabine ; Erith. 



[I have seen the specimen from which the figure (Entom. xv. 49) was 

 made, and have no hesitation in saying that it is an aberration of A. aglaia. 

 As the insect represented by figs. 2, 2a, Plate I., in the same volume, was 

 stated in the remarks accompanying the plate to be an aberration of A. 

 aglaia, and afterwards corrected to A. adippe, it would seem that some 

 little confusion had occurred in the identification of these two aberrations. 

 —R. S.J. 



Apatdra iris in Northamptonshire. — Two specimens of A. iris have 

 been captured in July within a few miles of Northampton. — W. Bostock : 

 Springfield, Northampton. 



Lycena bellargus (adonis) in Hertfordshire. — There is no record 

 that I can find of this butterfly having been taken in this county until 

 now. I have frequently looked for it on the chalk downs at Aldbury (where 

 L. corydon is abundant every year), as Hippocrq)is comosa, its food-plant, 

 grows there abundantly, and I thought it ought to be found there. This 

 month (September) 1 have found it on these hills, and have taken about a 

 dozen specimens. — Arthur Cottam ; Eldercroft, Watford. 



Lycena argiolus. — This species has been even more abundant this 

 year than it was last season, and I have taken and bred a very fine series, 

 among them being a pale lavender-coloured male, three or four males 

 exceptionally dark, another male having some of the colouring pigment 

 absent on right fore wing, and a female (first brood) unusually suffused with 

 black on all the four wings. All were captured in my garden, where it was 



