310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The weather was beautiful all the time, with brilliant sunshine and light 

 south and south-east winds. The memory of that field will ever give me 

 delight, and, personally, I shall record the year as a Colias one. lu and 

 around Truro C. edusa has also been plentiful. — W A. Rollason ; The 

 White House, Truro, Cornwall, Oct. 6th, 1900. 



Colias edusa and C. hyale in Hampshire. — With regard to the 

 occurrence of C. edusa and C. hyale this year, I may mention that on Ports- 

 down Hill the latter, during last July and August, has been as abundant as 

 the former. On August 14th I captured two insects together, and, strange 

 to say, they were both identified as helice. I have heard of a typical male and 

 var. helice being captured together, but never two helice. The only 

 difference between these two specimens is that one possesses a faint yellow 

 tint, which is entirely absent in the other. Also the border of the hind 

 wing in the whitish specimen is not so well defined as in the yellowish one. 

 Indeed the border of the latter is darker and broader than any helice that I 

 have seen. In my opinion the dark specimen is the male, and the pale the 

 female. In hijale I find two distinct colours — a canary-yellow and pale 

 greenish white — but they do not appear to be different sexes, as I have 

 frequently taken two yellow together. — H. La Chard ; 51, Powerscourt 

 Road, Kingston, Portsmouth, Sept. 22nd, 1900. 



Both C. edusa and C. hyale have been plentiful this year on the downs 

 and railway embankments in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth. The two 

 species occurred m about equal numbers. Between August 11th and Sept. 

 12th twenty-seven C. hyale were taken, of which eight were females. Others 

 were captured and released after examination for var. helice, one of which 

 was obtained. The latest date on which a specimen of C. hyale was seen 

 was Sept. 24th ; several specimens of C. edusa, however, were seen to be 

 still flying on Oct. 12th. Single specimens of C. edusa were seen in 

 different localities on June 12th, 13th, and 19th. The one seen on June 

 19th was a large, but rather worn female. It was full of eggs, and would 

 evidently be the parent of an autumn brood. — G. M. Russell; Oct. loth. 



Colias hyale in Kent. — In my recent note [ante, p. 27 7 j on the occur- 

 rence of C. edusa and C. hyale at Hythe, I mentioned the capture of a 

 specimen of C. edusa var. helice. The insect in question is a white form of 

 C. hrjale.—K S. Mitford ; 35, Redcliffe Square, S.W., Oct. 7th, 1900. 



Colias edusa in Lancashire. — I caught a very fine male C. edusa, a 

 rather large one, at Grange-over-Sands, in North Lancashire, during the 

 second week in September. It was flying over a field of ragwort, close to 

 the sea-shore. I watched the field for many days after, but never got 

 another, although others were seen before my capture, by other collectors. 

 I am not aware that any specimens of C. hyale were seen. — R. C. Lowther; 

 Fernleigh, Grange-over-Sands, North Lancashire, Oct. 14th. 



Colias edusa and C. hyale in Leicestershire. — During the last 

 week in August I saw several specimens of C. edusa and one of C. hyaU, 

 in the Charuwood Forest, near Loughborough. — W. Gifford Nash; 

 Bedford. 



Colias edusa in London. — A specimen of C. edusa was noticed in the 

 Strand, making its way towards Charing Cross, about a fortnight ago. — 

 Watkins & Doncaster, 36, Strand, W.C, Oct. 3rd, 1900. 



Colias edusa and C. hyale, &c., in Norfolk. — On Aug. 13th I 

 captured, at Honing, near North Walsham, a male and female of C. hyale, 

 and a female of G. edusa, in a clover-field ; all were fiue specimens. Cynthia 



