148 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



This year the cabbages and brocoli in the neighbouring gar- 

 dens have been devoured, so that nothing remains but naked 

 stems and a net-work of fibres. Observing numbers of large 

 white butterflies among my brocoli, I was forewarned, and 

 prepared for the result ; consequently I removed many of 

 the infected leaves, chiefly the lower ones; however, with all 

 my precautions, I did not succeed in ridding my garden of 

 the pest, for innumerable caterpillars made their appearance, 

 and, though destroyed by hundreds, there was no getting rid 

 of them ; but on the 9th of September 1 observed the house 

 sparrows settling on the leaves and perambulating the rows, 

 all apparently engaged in picking the eggs and grubs from 

 off" the leaves ; so that I am now rewarded for my toleration, 

 not to say encouragement, of this much maligned and perse- 

 cuted species, of which I have now a goodly flock about my 

 house and roosting in the ivy on the walls. — Heiiry Had- 

 Jleld ; Ventnor, Isle of Wiglit, October 10, 1864. 



80. Gonepieryx Rhamni. — In June, 1862, I found several 

 larvae of this species on the leaves of Rhamnus Frangula : 

 they rest on the upper surface of the leaf, close along the 

 midrib, and, being very much of the same colour as the leaf 

 itself, are not easily seen : the first changed to a chrysalis 

 on the 8lh of July, and the perfect insect appeared on the 

 1st of August. — J. Pristo ; Alcerstoiie, IVIiij^pirujham, Isle 

 of Wight. 



81. Colias Edusa. — In 1859 I took a female of this but- 

 terfly, intermediate in colour between the ordinary colouring 

 and the pale variety known as Helice ; it was in cop. with a 

 male of the usual colour : I also took two of the variety 

 known as Helice. This species was very common in the 

 Isle of Wight in 1859, but I did not see a single specimen 

 in 1860.—/^. 



82. Satyrus Galaihea. — Tn May, 1861, 1 obtained two larvae 

 of this species by sweeping grass ; one of them was green 

 and the other brown : both of them changed to pupae on the 

 surface of the earth on the 29th of June, and to perfect insects 

 on the 24th of July : the pupaj of both were dull white, and 

 both proved females : the pupae were not attached to the 

 food-plant by the tail, as represented in Humphrey and West- 

 wood's ' British Butterflies and their Transformations.' F^ggs 

 were laid on the 24th of August, and hatched on the 20th of 



