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male on the same hill on the same day. I cannot quite agree with the 
editorial note that the present year bids fair to rival that of 1877; at all 
events, so far as I am personally concerned, it certainly will not, for I find, 
upon referring to my diary of that year, that my son and myself, on the 4th 
and 6th August, netted, in one clover field, 215 edusa and 11 helice. — W. 
D. CanspaLe; Sunny Bank, South Norwood, 8.K., Sept. 38, 1892. 
C. edusa has been abundant here, and I took one var. helice. About 
Aug. 26th Drepana falcataria and D. lacertinaria came to light. Is this 
usual? Plusia gamma has been very common, unusually so. — ANANDA 
Coomara Swamy; Walden, Worplesdon, Guildford, Sept. 3. 
I took one C. edusa, a male, at Dorking on May 28th, and saw another 
a few days afterwards. I heard of some four or five others having been 
seen in the neighbourhood. On June 15th I took a worn female at Marl- 
borough. Since the 6th of August I have taken ten, six males and four 
females, all in splendid condition, in one field not more than a mile from the 
parish church at Dorking. — Fruprerick FrLoop; Denfield, Dorking, 
Sept. 16, 1892. 
During the last half of August, I found C. edusa common in the clover 
fields, &c., in the neighbourhood of Leatherhead. They were accompanied 
by large numbers of the “ whites” and Plusia gamma, Vanessa cardui being 
also common. One specimen of the var. helice of C. edusa fell to my net, 
and one CU. hyale. C. edusa are getting scarce and much worn ; V. atalanta 
is appearing in unusual numbers. (At p. 221, line 15, for “ Selcombe” 
read ‘ Salcombe).”—R. M. Pripsaux; Ashtead, Epsom, Surrey, Sept. 20. 
As early as June 4th I netted one C. edusa on the railway bank between 
this and Epsom; on the 4th July two in the same place; and from that 
time till the close of August they were very common, as my brother 
Mr. 8. Kaye has informed me.—W. J. Kaye; The Court, Worcester Park, 
Surrey, Oct. 15, 1892. 
On Sunday, 14th August, I journeyed down to Caterham Valley in 
search of C.edusa. It was a beautiful sunny morning, though a boisterous 
wind was blowing, which made running after such insects as edusa, on loose 
and stony ground, rather irksome. However, I managed to net eight very 
fine examples of this lovely butterfly, seven being males and only one 
female. I went down again on the following Sunday, with the result that 
I captured twenty-five specimens, only three of which were females. It 
struck me then as being very odd that the number of males should be so 
greatly in excess of the females, but during the last few weeks the sexes 
have appeared in fairly equal numbers. Nearly all the girls and boys whom 
I met out on the hills with their nets appeared to have one or more 
C. edusa in their boxes. The insect is now very much scarcer; indeed, on 
Saturday, Sept. 17th, I only saw uine examples in all, four of which I took. 
On this same date I was fortunate enough to take four beautiful specimens 
of C. hyale, two being found in cop. on a long stalk of dry grass. This 
insect (hyale), I understand from entomologists who reside near this 
delightful valley, is generally taken every season, though very sparingly.— 
F. J. Ropinson; Surrey Cottage, Water Lane, Brixton, 8.W., Sept. 26. 
Sussex. — I can fully endorse Mr. W. W. Hsam’s statement as to the 
abundance of C. edusa and Vanessa cardui iu the neighbourhood of East- 
bourne. During my visit, the middle of last month, I secured four speci- 
mens of the var. helice of C. edusa, and saw two others; L also caught a 
very prettily-marked female, in which the light markings in the borders of 
both wings are more numerous and pronounced than usual, and form a con- 
