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(one record), 18tl8 (very abundant, Edusa was not common), 

 1869 (one record), 1870 (scarce), 1872 (common, not so 

 Edusa), 1875 (abundant), 1876 (common). C. Edusa was 

 abundant in 1804, 1808, 1811, 1825 (one), 1826 (very 

 abundant), 1831 (plentiful), 1833, 1835 (both species comujon), 

 1836 (common), 1839 (common, many in June), 1843 (abun- 

 dant), 1844 (very common), 1846 (scarce), 1847, 1848 (one 

 record), 1851 (one record), 1852, 1855 (common), 1856 

 (common), 1857 (very common, recorded to November 18lh), 

 1858 (very common, particnlarlv in June, also to November 

 7lh), 1859 (very abundant), ^1861 (scarce), 1862, 1865 

 (common), 1867 (several), 1868 (common, but Hynle much 

 more so), 1869 (several), 1870 (scarce), 1871 (one record), 

 1872 (not uncommon), 1875 (very common), 1876 (common). 

 These records are collated from the ' Magazine of Natural 

 History,' the ' Entomological Magazine,' the ' Entomologist,' 

 the ' Zoologist,' the ' Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' 

 the ' Weekly Entomologist,' and the ' Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine.' They are ample to show distinctly the capricious- 

 ness of the occurrence of these two insects in Britain. 



The following are selected records for 1877 : — 



Bucks. — Common near Marlow, from beginning of August 

 to end of September ; fifty-five taken ; Helice occurred in 

 about the proportion of one to twenty : F. N. Jackson. 



Carnarvon. — k freshly-emerged Helice, taken at Bangor 

 on 3rd October; the only Edusa seen in Wales during a 

 Ibrtnight's stay : S. D. Bairstow. 



Cornwall. — Common at Penzance, also seen within a 

 short distance of the Land's End ; second week in September : 

 H. Miller, jun. 



Derby. — Taken in Darley Abbey Gardens; last taken 9th 

 September: S. J. Rowberry. 



Devon. — A tattered individual, seen near Torquay, about 

 the 5th or 6th May ; several fine bright males seen at the end 

 of the month, and the species became common by the middle 

 of June; very abundant during the summer; several seen on 

 October 14th; the last on October 29th : G. B. Corbin. A 

 friend tells me Edusa was out and connnon, at Siduiouth, the 

 second week in Octobei : H. T. Dobson, jun. 



Dumfriesshire. — Common this year throughout the 

 district; not seen previously since 1862; first seen June 3rd; 

 in scanty numbers throughout June, July, and August; the 

 autunni brood was very common from Sepiember 10th to 

 October 9th : R. Service. 



