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Abundance of Pierid^. — The swarms of white butterflies 

 have been phenomenal in this neighbourhood and in the clover 

 fields ; nearly every flower-head has been conspicuous by its 

 rifling Pieris. — Windsor Hambrough ; Hamilton House, Odiham, 

 Hants, September, 1887. 



Apatura iris in May in Devonshire. — On a very hot day, 

 about the lltli of May last, on the top of a high hill close here, 

 and flying rapidly under some tall trees, ] caught a male Apatura 

 iris, apparently just emerged from the pupa. As this is neither 

 the season nor a recorded locality for this butterfly, I am rather 

 at a loss to account for its appearance, and shall be vei-y much 

 obliged if you can suggest any explanation of it. — F. G. Johnson ; 

 The Old House, Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon. 



Lyc.ena corydon away from Chalk. — Adverting to my friend 

 Dr. Kendall's note on this species (Entom. 229), respecting his 

 having taken it at Hounslow on 1st August last, a locality many 

 miles from a chalk formation, so far as my experience goes I have 

 never found Lyccena corydon in England except on chalk; but on 

 the Continent the species is by no means confined to a chalky 

 soil ; for instance, I have taken it near Aussig in Bohemia amongst 

 the darkest trap-rocks, and in the Alps in the Ehone Valley 

 between Viesch and Brieg, in parts in which I saw no chalk. I 

 have even taken specimens at Zermatt, some 5000 feet above the 

 level of the sea. The Bohemian specimens are larger and darker 

 than the English, the outer third of the fore wings being more 

 suffused with black. — J. Jenner Weir ; Beckenham, Kent. 



Lyc^na corydon away from Chalk. — An entomologist, in 

 the August number of this magazine, having recorded the 

 capture of Lyccena corydon away from chalk soil, I may state 

 that I took a single specimen of this insect in Herefordshire, 

 about twelve miles due north of Worcester, in the middle of 

 August this year. There is no chalk whatever in the neighbour- 

 hood ; and so far as I can ascertain, L. corydon has not previously 

 been observed there. — John Lea; 2, Elm Villas, Hampstead, 

 N.W., September, 1887. 



Lyc^na corydon, Dwarf specimens. — While collecting with 

 a friend on the chalk downs, between Lewes and Glynde, we met 

 with a great profusion of both male and female specimens of this 

 butterfly of unusually dwarfed size. Most of the specimens were 



