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there is not much attraction in the way of clover-fields. — Waldegrave ; 

 The Priory, Chewton Mendip, Sept. 24th, 1900. 



You may perhaps have had reports as to Colias from this district. In 

 August I saw, near Bridgwater, one specimen of C. hyale and a few C. edusa. 

 Mr. Cottam, of Watford, took one hyale, three helice, and other edusa. I 

 then went to Chelmsford, where edusa were decidedly scarce, only four or 

 five being seen in a fortnight, but I took a nice series of hyale, in good 

 condition, at the end of August. Returning to Bridgwater, could hear of 

 no more hyale, but edusa was still to be found in clover-fields ; females were 

 rare, and no more helice. — H. Corder ; Sunnyside, Bridgwater, Oct. 9th. 



Colias edusa, &c., in Staffordshire. — C. edusa has at length 

 reappeared in North Staffordshire ; on Aug. 27th my friend, Mr. W. H. 

 Earl, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, saw one between Endon and Leek, and on 

 Sept. 4th my son Harold found one asleep on a flower, in a cutting of the 

 North Staffordshire Railway in this parish ; it is a very fine female specimen, 

 in perfect condition ; two days later he saw two others in Swynnerton Old Park, 

 My son also captured a fine male Vanessa cardui, flying at petunias close 

 to my front door. This is an insect which has not been observed here for 

 several years ; I have never known it to be plentiful in North Staffordshire. 

 Since his return to school I saw a male Gonepteryx rhamni, flying at flowers 

 in the vicarage garden, on Sept. 23rd and 25th. This species is very un- 

 common here ; I have only seen three or four specimens during the forty 

 years I have been here, and I never saw it in the garden before. V. ata- 

 lanta has been most abundant here all September ; it chiefly affects the 

 dahlia flowers, and I frequently observed from a dozen to twenty at one 

 time on ours. A few V. io were also observed. — (Rev.) T. W. Daltrt; 

 Madeley Vicarage, Staffs. 



Colias edusa and C. hyale in Suffolk. — On Aug. 13th the first 

 specimens made their appearance in a clover-field at Stutton Hall, and 

 during the month eighteen specimens of C. hyale, several C. edusa, and six 

 specimens of the variety helice were taken. — W. Gifford Nash; Bedford. 



Colias edusa and C. hyale in Surrey. — The above have been very 

 plentiful this year in Reigate district ; eleven C. hyale and thirteen C. edusa 

 have fallen to my net alone. I saw over three dozen of 0. hyale on Aug. 

 27th. — W. Fairchild; 5, Worcester Road. Reigate, Surrey, Sept. 30th. 



Colias edusa in Sussex. — Although not seen in sufficient numbers to 

 be called abundant, C. edusa may fairly be said to have been tolerably 

 common at Eastbourne in the later part of August and the first week in 

 September last, I first met with it in one of the sheltered hollows under 

 Beachy Head, on Aug. 24th, when a somewhat wasted female was taken. 

 On the following day another example flew past me, too rapidly to admit of 

 either condition or sex being ascertained, as I was on my way to the 

 same spot, and on reaching there I secured a still more wasted female than 

 the first, which, it is needless to say, I also turned adrift. I had no 

 further opportunity of looking for the species until Sept. 3rd, when, on 

 going to the same " hollow," I found edusa flying wildly on the down-sides, 

 whether one or half a dozen I am unable to say, but I can honestly say 

 that, in my endeavour to elucidate the question, I took more physical 

 exertion in the course of an hour than I had done in a like space of time 

 for many a long day. However, on the following morning the question 

 was set at rest by the capture of some half-dozen individuals, comprising 

 both sexes, and for the most part in fairly fresh order, and several others 



