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Hill, about four miles from Portsmouth, three splendid male 

 specimens of Colias Edusa, two of which I succeeded in 

 capturing. I have never before met with it. Is it not late 

 for fresh specimens of that species ^ I have also procured 

 five more pupse of Acherontia Atropos from a potato-field 

 near Landport, making eleven in all. — Henri/ Moncreaff ; 

 Soidhsea, Sepienther 16, 1865. 



237. Singular Habit ofThecla Quercus. — Whilst collect- 

 ing, last July, at West Wickham, I shook a sn)all sapling 

 ash, and observed several specimens of Thecla Quercus fly 

 from it, and almost immediately return and settle again on 

 the leaves, in most instances upon the same identical leaf 

 from which they had been disturbed. Further observations 

 proved this to be the case with most of the young ash trees 

 in the wood, and I could have captured dozens had I becii 

 so disposed. Unfortunately, however, the insect had been 

 out some time, and the greater mnjority of them were not in 

 good condition. The same day 1 observed about twenty 

 specimens gambolling and settling upon an ash tree near 

 Beckenhau), no oak tree being near. The larvae are sup- 

 posed to feed exclusively on oak. Why, then, did the imago 

 show such a partiality for ash ? Does the larva feed on that 

 tree also ? 1 should be glad to hear an opinion on this 

 point. — S. A. Davis, jun. ; Seven Sisters' Road, Holloway, 

 September, 1865. 



238. Supposed New British Butt erjfy. — Having seen a 

 very beautiful pair of butterflies this summer, and not being 

 able to see any at all like them in any collection of British 

 butterflies that I can meet with, I describe them, and should 

 feel very glad to know what they are, and whether they arc a 

 well-known species. I saw them in a lane by the side of a 

 wood in the south of Devonshire. One of them settled on a 

 leaf close to me, so that I had an ojjportunity of looking at 

 it for some time. It was of a uniform red coloin-, nearly as 

 bright as the red in Vanessa Alalanta, and had no spots, but 

 appeared to be veined with black. If you can spare time 

 to give me your opinion, 1 shall feel much obliged. — Mar- 

 garet Mallock; Brarnpion Speke, Exeter, September 26. 



[I scarcely dare venture an opinion : my corres))ondent 

 ap]jears to have written the word " copper" after " red," but 

 has drawn the pen through : had it been allowed to stand I 



