COLIAS EDUSA IN ENGLAND. 311 
About the middle of August, while staying at Brighton, I observed a 
great number of C. edusa on corn stubbles on the outskirts of the town. I 
took twelve males and four females, besides one fine specimen of the var. 
helice (pure white ground), in about one hour and a half. I think that it 
is a fact worthy of notice that all the Colias which I saw were flying inland 
away from the sea, a fact which makes it possible that their appearance was 
due to migration.—H. E. L. Coapwicx; Hadlow Castle, Tunbridge, Kent, 
Sept. 22, 1892. 
I have been much interested reading accounts in your September num- 
ber of the unusual abundance of C. edusa this year. When driving between 
Brighton and Lewes, the beginning of August, I noticed several fly across 
the road. I never saw the species here before, though I have travelled 
over the same ground at that particular season for some years past. I took 
the earliest opportunity of going in search of some, and found, I may say, 
hundreds in a wheat field near Stanmer. As the corn was being cut, it 
was easy to get at them, and I might have taken any number. ‘They were 
principally males, for I only took ene female, and was unable that day to 
obtain another. A day or two after I found females more plentiful, and the 
specimens all beautifully fresh, evidently having recently emerged. ‘There 
was also a fair sprinkling of C. hyale. I remarked especially the unusual 
brilliancy of the male Polyommatus adonis. So many of the butterflies this 
year (above all the blues) I find attacked by some bright red insects; so 
thickly on the bodies of some, it seemed a wonder they lived, and appeared 
to fly as easily as without these unpleasant visitors. —(Mrs.) ARGENTINE 
Basurorp; 36, Brunswick Square, Brighton, Sept. 16, 1892. 
I was staying at Pulborough during the first week in August. C. edusa 
was on the wing, but not in any quantity, five being the largest number I 
saw in one day. I went there again, on the 18th August, to spend a few 
days; C. edusa was then very common, especially in meadows near the 
Arun, and on the railway embankments.—P. T. Laray; Warren Road, 
Bexley Heath, Oct. 2, 1892. 
Five specimens of C. edusa seen near Hastings between June 3rd and 
6th.—H. R. CoamBers; 28, Southampton Buildings. 
Several beautiful specimens of C. edusa var. helice, and one or two C. 
hyale, were among our captives. C. edusa was last seen here on Oct. 4th. 
—JosrpH ANDERSON, jun.; Alve Villa, Chichester. 
Wales.—I captured, on Sept. 14th, a fine male specimen of C. edusa in 
a lane running through a plantation above Pen-y-worlod, near Hay, Brecon- 
shire; also, on June 7th and Aug. 17th, I saw two specimens of C. edusa 
at Llanfairfechan, Carnarvonshire, on sunny banks near railway. — A. M. 
PatEsHALL THomas; Llanthomas, Hay, Breconshire, Sept. 10. 
A specimen of C. edusa was taken at Tenby in the spring.—Hewnry A. 
Hiri; Hampstead. 
C. edusa was common at Usk, in Monmouthshire, at the end of August. 
—E. T. Bissnorr; Ipswich. 
C. edusa has been very plentiful about here since about the 12th of 
August, nearly two hundred having been caught by the members of the 
Penarth Entomological and Natural History Society; several of the var. 
helice having been met with. Of fifty edusa that I have caught, twenty- 
one are females, many in magnificent condition. Some of the females 
have a rich glossy appearance on the dark portions of the wings. — G. A. 
BrrKENHEAD; Penarth. 
In addition to the localities already recorded where C. edusa has been 
