210 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



southern rampart. Unfortunately we had no net, but I followed the 

 butterfly for some time, getting quite close each time it settled and 

 at last near enough to verify my boy's remark that it was the swallow- 

 tail butterfly, an exceedingly attractive insect having yellow wings 

 ornamented with black, blue, and red, and whose habitat in the 

 British Isles is confined to the low-lying fens of Norfolk and 

 Cambridgeshire. 



The swallow-tail's appearance in this district is extremely rare, 

 and I do not think such an event has ever been chronicled in the 

 ' Herald.' Mr. A. F. Brazenor, the taxidermist of Lewes Road, has 

 two specimens captured some years ago, one on Bear Hill, and the 

 other at Withdean. Another entomologist, Mr. F. G. S. Bramwell, 

 also informs me that a Mr. Harry White knocked down a swallow- 

 tail on the Madeira Drive one Sunday morning some twenty years 

 iigo. There are one or two records for the county, but the above are 

 t he only purely local appearances I have been able to trace so far. 

 During the last quarter of a century the butterfly has been seen on 

 llie wing, from time to time, in various parts of the southern coun- 

 ties. Caterpillars have also been found at large in Kent. It is 

 thought attempts may have been made to establish the species in 

 certain parts of England, or that such butterflies may have escaped 

 from some one who had reared them. But it is quite possible that 

 our local specimens may have been blown over from the continent, 

 where they are common in woods as well as in meadows, and even 

 on mountains up to an elevation of 5000 ft. It occurs also, but less 

 commonly, at much higher altitudes. The geographical range of the 

 swallow-tail extends eastwards as far as Japan, so it seems strange 

 that Brighton does not get favoured more frequently by their 

 presence. I should be glad if any of your readers could supply me 

 with full data of other local occurrences of the swallow-tail, so that a 

 proper record may be made. The one seen on Sunday was un- 

 doubtedly a full-size female, with a span of wing measuring about 

 3f in. Yours, etc., Herbert S. Toms. 



53, Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton, August 8th, 1917. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN CORNWALL. — On July 17th a friend of mine 

 took a specimen of this species in a field near Falmouth. On 

 examination I found it to be a male, apparently freshly emerged. 

 Another specimen was seen two days later. — E. O. Akmytage ; 

 Homelands Feoch, Devoran, Cornwall. 



Colias Eduba in June and July. — A specimen of var. helice of 

 this species was taken at Porchester, Hants, on June 26th. Normal 

 specimens of edusa were seen on July 14th (two), July 16th (two), 

 and July 27th. One of those seen on July 16th was a large but 

 very worn female and was watched for some time as it deposited 

 eggs in a lucerne and clover field on the southern slope of Portsdown 

 Hill. — G. M. Russell; 6, Shaftesbury Road, Earlsdon, Coventry. 



Supplementary Note on Occurrence of Lytta vesicatoria, 

 at Chichester and Neighbourhood. — Since my note {antea, p. 188) 

 on the occurrence here of Lytta (Ccmtharis) vesicatoria was written, 

 Mr. H. L. J. Guermonprez, of Bognor— distant eight miles — records 



