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miles. Ifc may be worth recording that out of a couple of dozen 

 larvae of Aglais urticce taken from the road below the house two 

 emerged with the two small black spots on the upper wings absent ; 

 the specimens were no smaller than the rest. Carclui and edusa have 

 been scarce, although I have seen both. V. io, atalanta, and nrticcB 

 have been in amazing numbers. — Fredeeick Gillett ; Shootfield 

 House, Sundridge, Sevenoaks. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN HAMPSHIRE. — In addition to those recorded in 

 last month's ' Entomologist,' I have since seen three G. edusa (2 <? 

 and 1 $ ) near S. Katherine's Hill, Winchester, and two at Brocken- 

 hurst. Canon Vaughan, of Winchester, saw one in his garden in the 

 Close. A niece of mine saw one on September 29th at Shawford, 

 and another butterfly which she took to be C. hyale. She is not an 

 entomologist, so it may have been but a light-coloured C. edusa ; but 

 she saw it plainly, and was struck by its being very much lighter than 

 the specimens of C. edusa she had seen when out with me. Possibly 

 it was var. helice. — Harold Hodge ; 54, Piccadilly, W. 1. 



CoLiAS edusa and Colias hyale IN Suffolk. — On September 4th 

 Mr. C. Morley and myself saw C. edusa at Baylham, close to the 

 railway line, but did not capture it. Mr. Morley tells me that he saw 

 C. hyale at Monks Soham on July 6th. — C. H. S. Vinter; The Han- 

 nings, Framlingham. 



I take it that this interesting butterfly has been fairly plenti- 

 ful this year. I noticed several G. edusa towards the end of August 

 and early in September flying about the clover fields in this parish. 

 I have not, however, observed the var. helice, nor have I seen 

 G. hyale. I saw a beautiful specimen of this latter insect last year 

 quite late in October. — Rev. A. P. Waller ; Waldringfield Rectory, 

 Woodbridge. 



Colias edusa in South Devon. — I know of thirteen specimens 

 having been caught and others seen during the first and second weeks 

 of September in and around Beer, near Seaton, South Devon. — S. A. 

 St. J. Winston. 



Colias edusa in Guernsey. — In the early summer several 

 C. edusa gave promise of something better in the autumn. It has, 

 however, been a disappointing year. A tremendous gale on August 

 28th and 29th, with cold and rain, had the efl'ect of early winter on 

 vegetation. Trees w^ere lashed so that their foliage was completely 

 killed ; many, of course, were blown down, suffering more from the 

 wind because in full leaf. Even low-growing plants, as fields of 

 lucerne, were devastated, and larvae must have been destroyed in 

 numbers. I saw perhaps some half-dozen G. edusa in August before 

 the storm, but none after. I took a female on the 25th and caged 

 her. She laid four eggs on lucerne, and died September 1st. These 

 hatched and are now feeding on white clover, but remain very small. 

 Another female was caged for a week, but, I think, was not paired, 

 and I got no eggs. G. hyale did not appear. On the whole, I should 

 say edusa was much scarcer than in average years. It is quite an 

 exceptional thing not to see a few every autumn in Guernsey, though 

 abundance of the species is hardly more usual here than in England. 

 —Frank E. Lowe ; October 9th, 1917. 



