278 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the var. helice. Though I have collected here for six years, I have not seen 
C. edusa here before. I have also noticed great quantities of Vanessa 
atalanta and V. io, but only a few V. urtice, and not a single specimen of 
V. polychloros, although this is rather a good place for them. Cynthia 
cardut I have also seen in fair numbers, including one pale variety. As 
for the commoner blues, coppers, &c., they have been positively swarming ; 
but Gonepteryax rhamni has been conspicuous by its absence, at least I 
have not seen one. ‘I'he other day, in a small paddock with a lot of 
thistles in flower, I saw a beautiful sight : it was literally alive with butter- 
flies,—io, cardui, alexis, phlwas, &c.,—a very happy sight for one who 
could admire without itching to bring out the net. And while on this 
point, is it not rather a pity that such large numbers should be netted 
directly any intermittent specimen appears commonly ? I see one gentle- 
man says he has netted eighty-seven specimens of C. edusa. I think he 
would have benefited science more had he let the rest go, when he had 
sufficiently stocked his collection. — Crcrn Law; Archfield, Hants. [It is 
probably a desire to assist entomological friends with specimens that 
induces one to capture long series of a species which but rarely appears in 
profusion in this country.— Ep. ] 
At Bournemouth C. edusa has been fairly abundant, my box showing a 
picked dozen, among other things, for a morning’s work. During ten days 
there I only saw three helice, two of which were captured.rHucs KE. 
Hopxixs ; 158, Camden Grove North, Peckham, Sept. 3, 1892. 
C. edusa was so very plentiful during the latter part of July, August, 
and early September in all parts of S. Hampshire, that a good series could 
easily be obtained, ranging from the dark orange, with the warm varying 
glow, to the light helice, which variety, however, was not in due proportion to 
the type. A feature of the visitation was the preponderance of males over 
females, the ratio being about 5:1. I captured one light male, not much 
larger than a fine specimen of C. phiwas; and Mr. Larcom and myself 
managed to secure a good number of the variety. C. hyale appeared 
sparingly, but I managed to obtain a fairly good series. ‘They occurred 
rather freely in a lucerne field at Westend, near Southampton, and I had 
the pleasure of capturing five there in less than a hour. Mr. Larcom and 
I each took a specimen of the white variety. — W. H. Macxert; Science 
and Art School, Gosport. 
One specimen of C. edusa seen at Southsea on Aug. 2ist, and two at 
Hayling Island on the 23rd.—E. R. CHAmBERs. 
I took three females of C. edusa, including one var. helice, in the New 
Forest in August last. — Henry A. Hitt; 132, Haverstock Hill, Hamp- 
stead, N.W., Oct. 5, 1892. 
I saw a specimen of C. edusa flying over the heather at Bournemouth 
at the beginning of July. Soon after that several were seen at Swanage, 
where the species was very plentiful on Aug. 5th, but there were no helice 
to be seen. During August C. edusa.was to be seen even in the gardens 
at Bournemouth, I hear. I have noticed that Macroglossa stellatarum and 
Uropteryx sambucata were both unusually plentiful this year, whilst I found 
Argynnis adippe far more common thau usual during July in the New 
Forest.—( Rev.) J. C. MacxonocutEe; Douglas Castle, Lanark, Sept. 2. 
Herefordshire.-——- From Aug. 20th to Sept. 14th we captured, near 
Hereford, seventy specimens of C. edusa (sixty-two males, eight females), 
besides missing several others :--August 20th, twenty-eight males, four 
females ; 22nd, nineteen males; 25th, six males, two females; 30th, two 
