340 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



289. Colias Eclusa and C. Hijale at E.vmouth. — C. Eclusa 

 has been very abundant near Exmoulb tbis season ; tbe 

 insect first appeared about the tbird week in July, and con- 

 tinued plentiful till tbe end of tbe first week in October, 

 wben tbe cold rains set in. I saw, bowever, three, in 

 tolerably good preservation, on tbe 20tb of this month, I 

 have twice obtained tbe variety C. Helice, and 1 have seen a 

 specimen of C. Hyale which was taken near Lympstone in 

 the last week of Jidy. — J. W. B. Bell ; 11, Louisa Terrace^ 

 ExmoHlh, October 23, 1865. 



290. Colias Edifsa at Eastbourne. ■ — There never were 

 more of Colias Edusa than this year : this fine butterfly has 

 appeared everywhere in tbe neighbourhood. — John Dutton ; 

 Eastbourne. 



[Please not to send any more accounts of the capture of 

 this insect during tbe present season, unless some particulars 

 of its life-history are ascertained. — Edward Newman. ~\ 



291. Life-history Scraps in re Colias Edusa. — From one 

 correspondent I learn that the females of Colias Edusa fly 

 very low over the barley-stubble in the Isle of Wight ; fi'om 

 a second that he observed copulation going on ; from a third 

 I find that the females settle on the dwarf clover-plants ; and 

 from a fourth that from a female caught in this occupation he 

 obtained three eggs, which he kindly placed in ray hands. — 

 Edward Netvman. 



292. Aryynnis Lathonia, S^c, at Aldebnrgh and Bury. — 

 I have been fortunate in taking tbe following Lepidoptera 

 this season . — At Aldeburgh, in July, Argynnis Lathonia, 

 Vanessa Polycbloros, Notodonta cucullina, Mamestra furva 

 and M. abjecta. At Bury St. Edmunds, in June, I captured 

 eight specimens of lodis vernaria in one evening. At Tud- 

 denham, in August and September, I took fifty larvae of No- 

 todonta dromedarius. — A. H. Wrutislaw ; School Hcdl, 

 Bury St. Edmunds. ■ 



293. Argynnis Lathonia in the Isle of Wight. — I have 

 taken two specimens of Argynnis Lathonia — one on the 21st 

 of October, the other on the 24th, both of them males; and 

 1 think 1 saw a third before I took either of the others, but 

 supposed it to be either Euphrosyne or Selene. — Alfred 

 Owen ; Spring Cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight. 



294. Argynnis Lathonia at Dover. — Mr. Richardson 



