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abundant this season, I am able to give Carmarthenshire and Pembroke- 
shire. On Aug. 22nd I noticed it all along the railway for more than 
twenty miles between Tenby and this county. Vanessa atalanta and 
V. urtice have’ also been very plentiful, and I have also seen several 
V. cardui and V. io — T. B. Jerrerys; Langharne, Carmarthenshire, 
Sept. 13, 1892. 
A friend of mine, EK. A. Sanders, caught a fine specimen of C. hyale on 
Sept. 2nd, in South Wales.—E. Gorpon C. Brooke. 
I have just had a letter from an entomological friend,’ who tells me C. 
edusa has been abundant on the Welsh coast; also common inland, in N. 
Wales, Merionethshire—J. Arkte; 2. George St., Chester, Nov. 20, 1892. 
Warwickshire (North).—On Sept 3rd, 1892, I found a male specimen of 
C. edusa near Spade Mill Pool, Sutton Park. It was in good condition, 
and seemed to have just emerged from the pupa.—J. Moore; 2238, Great 
Russell Street, Birmingham. 
Wiltshire.—I saw two C. edusa at Chippenham, and one at Box, Wilts, 
on Sept. 26th.—Cuas. Barrierr; Branscombe, Redland Green, Bristol. 
C. edusa has been abundant in the neighbourhood of Colne, N. Wilts, 
during the latter part of August, though females were somewhat scarce, 
the proportion of males to females being about seven to one. One female 
which I secured was unusually small, measuring only one inch and eleven- 
sixteenths from tip to tip.—(Rey.) J. EK. Tarsar; Whitby Villa, Reading. 
I was down home, in Wiltshire, about the middle of August last, and 
I found C. edusa fairly common. ‘The place where they congregated 
chiefly was a large piece of waste ground in some allotment land, which 
had not been cultivated this year, and was entirely overgrown with thistles 
and other wild flowers. When the sun was shining it had a wonderfully 
bright appearance, for the place was literally alive with insects. Vanessa 
io and V. urtice simply swarmed. ‘There were also Lyc@na icarus, Poly- 
ommatus phiwas and Plusia gamma in fair numbers; and a good sprinkling 
ot Pyrameis cardut, an insect of very uncertain habits—some years I have 
not seen a single specimen. I only saw two specimens of edusa var. helice, 
neither of which I was able to capture. All insects were in splendid con- 
dition.—(Rey.) 'T. B. Epprup; Newchurch-in- Rossendale, Manchester. 
Worcestershire. —- Since coming here (Tenbury), on the borders of 
Worcestershire and Shropshire, I have seen a few CU. edusa.—W. CLAxTOon ; 
Hartley Wintney, Winchfield, Sept. 3, 1892. 
Yorkshire. — On May 29th last I captured a fine female specimen of 
C. edusa in Edlington Wood, near Doncaster, Yorks. It was flying down 
a clearing in the wood, and its condition was as if just emerged. — HK. G. 
Porrer; York. 
Several specimens of C. edusa were taken last month in the neighbour- 
hood of York, but, so far as I am aware, neither the var. helice nor C. hyale 
have put in an appearance. Vanessa atalanta has keen very common, 
and V. cardui fairly so—Wttuiam Hewerr; 12, Howard Street, York, 
Oct. 21, 1892. 
My boy, Stanley Harris, brought a specimen of C. edusa in one day 
from the fields by the Ure, over against Hawes, in Upper Wensley Dale. 
As an old collector, well acquainted with the North Riding, I believe this 
wild and bleak locality for C. edusa is quite new. We took it at Richmond 
in 1875 (I think it was), but that is further down dale, and quite a different 
climate.—C. Arex. Harris; The Hermitage, Worcester Park, Oct. 24. 
Ireland.-~I wish to record the appearance here, on Aug. 28th, of a 
