NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. LF 
ABSENCE OF CoLias Epusa my IRELAND IN 1878.—I have 
not seen a single clouded yellow this year, although I have 
hunted for it at Greystones and Bray Head (one of its favourite 
resorts), co. Wicklow, at Howth near Dublin, and at Glengarriff 
and Queenstown, co. Cork. If this has been the case with regard 
to Colias Edusa, the contrary may be said of Vanessa cardui, 
which as far as my experience goes was the commonest butterfly 
this summer. I counted over thirty specimens of her ladyship in 
a clover field at Bray Head. From accounts published, Acherontia 
Atropos seems to have been taken this year in tolerable abundance. 
In addition to the one chronicled by me (Entom. xi. 160) I know 
of three others which were caught respectively at Schull, about 
August 25th; near Glengarriff, October 4th; and at Bantry, early 
in the same month—Wmuiam W. Fuiemyne; 18, Upper 
Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin; November 8, 1878. 
Nores FroM GurrnsEY.—The following species must be 
added to the list of Guernsey Macro-Lepidoptera :—Deiopeia 
pulchella: a fine specimen was captured on the coast near Petit 
Bo Bay, by Mr. Frederick Heume, and I have had the pleasure 
of seeing it in his collection. Leucania straminea: I took two on 
July 10th, on a marshy piece of ground, called the Grande Mare, 
near Vazon Bay. Aporophyla australis: I bred two rather small 
specimens from larve found during spring on the sandy north 
coast of the island. The imagos emerged on September 29th 
and 30th. Hecatera serena: I found one at rest on a wall, whilst 
searching for Bryophila glandifera. Lepidoptera, generally, have 
not been nearly so plentiful this season as last, and sugaring, 
although repeatedly tried under seemingly favourable circum- 
stances, has been of very little use. In places where Lithosia 
rubricollis was abundant in former years, I have only found two 
or three specimens, and I have not succeeded in finding a single 
larva. Colias Edusa, which was so plentiful here last season, has 
been scarcer than usual; and I have only been able to find one 
Eubolia peribolata instead of the usual one or two dozen.— 
W. A. Lurr; Guernsey, November 15, 1878. 
DEscRIPTION OF THE Larva oF SPILODES PALEALIS.—The 
larve from which the following description was taken were sent 
to me the last week in August 1876, by the Rev. P. H. Jennings, 
M.A., of Longfield Rectory, Gravesend. He had found them in 
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