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Dartford Heath, and captured over thirty specimens, including one of var. 
helice, and one hyale, in an afternoon. I went to the same spot about a 
week later, but the clover had been cut, and there was not a single edusa to 
be seen.—P. T. Latuy; Warren Road, Bexley Heath, Kent, Oct. 3, 1892. 
I noticed the first C. edusa on July 80th, at Chatham Dockyard, and 
throughout August, and up to the 15th instant, it was common both at 
Chatham and the neighbourhood of Sittingbourne; and I even saw it on 
several occasions in the streets of Chatham and Brompton. A large 
number might have been captured, and I secured a very fine series, 
including six of the var. helice, and also a remarkable variety of the female, 
of the ordinary colour, but with very deep and unspotted marginal bands. 
The first C. hyale was observed in Chatham Dockyard on August 16th, 
and from that time, up to Sept. 15th, it was noticed sparingly both in the 
neighbourhood of Chatham and Frinsted, and three dozen of them were 
captured. Among this number there was only one female. ‘The weather 
during this period was not very favourable for them, for there were a 
number of dull or wet days, and the nights were often very cold—so cold 
that I fancy many of the butterflies must have perished. As a rule, when 
the bright days occurred, I was employed.on duty on board my ship, or else 
I should probably have obtained a good many more.—GurvasE F. MaTHEw; 
H.M.S. ‘Tyne,’ Chatham, Sept. 20. 
C. edusa was very plentiful about Tunbridge Wells this season. I also 
took a very fine example of the var. helice and one C. hyale-—H. W. 
SHEPHEARD ; Walwyn, Glensyde, Bidborough, near Tunbridge Wells. 
I captured two males and one female C. edusa, and two examples of 
C. hyale, at Broadstairs, in August.—Hernry A. Hitt; Hampstead. 
At Folkestone, on July 22nd, I took one freshly-emerged male of 
C. edusa, in the Warren; and on August 17th, in company with two 
friends, we took a large number ; also a few var. helice and C. hyale.— W. 
K. Burner; Hayling House, Oxford Road, Reading. 
Several males of C. edusa, taken in a lucerne field near Ramsgate 
during the last week of July and first week of August. Three females (one 
var. helice) were captured on the 11th August, and eight males on the 13th. 
—KH. Rh. CHAMBERS. 
Lancashire. — On Aug. 26th I saw a fine female C. edusa taken that 
day by a boy ina field near my house. I do not think C. edusa has been 
seen in this neighbourhood since 1877; a friend of mine then took two of 
the type and one var. helice about a mile from here. — B. H. CRABTREE ; 
The Oaklands, Grange Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester. 
Upwards of sixty specimens of C. edusa have been taken here this year. 
I am also informed that a considerable number have been taken at Arnside, 
near here. Of those taken by myself, two in every five specimens were 
females, in beautiful condition. Vanessa cardui has been very common 
during the autumn. — Gro. A. Boot; Fern Hill, Grange-over-Sands, 
Oct. 6, 1892. 
I have not seen C. edusa since the 8th of June till somewhere about 
the middle of August, near How Hall, Ennerdale, where I was staying 
during August. I missed it, but on returning home [ took eleven, and one 
was given me (all but the latter caught between Sept. 4th and 10th). The 
males were in exact proportion of three to one female; one of the latter was 
var. helice, in good condition. —JoHN WeBsTER ; Barony House, St. Bees, 
vid Carnforth, Sept. 24, 1892. 
Leicestershire.—Three specimens of C. edusa were taken near Bottesford 
