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in 1840, but I do not recollect to have met with any parallel 

 record in the pages of the ' Entomologist ' ; though, in your 

 number for last October (Entom. xix. 247), Mr. A. G. Field asks 

 for an explanation of an individual of the same species (viz., 

 E. cardamines), taken on August 18th. Amongst the Heterocera, 

 of course, retardation is not uncommon ; two out of four Dicranura 

 furcula I have bred waited a year ; and your columns contain 

 notices of such delay on the part of Sphinx ligustri, Dicranura 

 viiiula, Saturnia carpini, Eriogaster lanestris, Endromis versicolor, 

 Cucidlia verbasci, Emmelesia unifasciata, Eupithecia expallidata, 



E. togata, and probably others. — H, Chitty ; 28, Queen's Gate 

 Gardens, London, S.W., February 21, 1887. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN EssEX. — As I see notices of the appearance 

 of C. ediisa in 1886 are still being sent to the ' Entomologist,' I 

 write to saj^ I saw two good specimens on October 6th, while 

 partridge shooting near Newport, Essex. — Walde grave ; 13, 

 Montagu Place, Montagu Square, W., February 1st. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN SuRREY. — On the 27th of August last I met 

 with two C.edusa near Oxshott station, Surrey. Both specimens 

 were males in good condition. It is the iirst time I have seen this 

 species in that locality. None appeared at Kingston last year. — 



F. V. Theobald; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Middlesex. — I took Sphinx convolvidi 

 on August 7th last year, on a fence in Holloway. Several speci- 

 mens have been taken near. — A. J. Field ; 145, Isledon Road, 

 Seven Sister's Road, Finsbury Park, N. 



Phigalia pedaria in Autumn. — P. piedaria {pilosaria) seems 

 to appear much earlier than Newman states. I found one 

 upon a tree on the 15th of December, 1885, at Bedford. As I 

 was only passing through the town I had not time to look for 

 more. — M. Routledge ; 50, Russell Square, London, Jan., 1887. 



The Habits op Triph^ena interjecta. — Mr. Anderson's 

 note (Entom. 41) recalls to me a similar experience of the habits 

 of this species in July, 1880. Prior to that date I had only 

 occasionally taken Triphcena interjecta at flowers, and very 

 sparingly at sugar. On a fine afternoon in the first week of 

 July of that year, about 5 o'clock p.m., while walking along a 

 lane leading from this place to New Maiden, I was suprised 

 to see this species in profusion, flying wildly about the hedges 



