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would be the progeny of early moths of the same season. Had they lived 
they would have produced, in the autumn, a second brood of the perfect insect, 
—a matter which, I have reason to believe, is not of very rare occurrence. 
—J. ARrKLE; Chester. [They would more likely have produced parasites. ] 
MIGRATION oF PreRIS BRASSICH, AT Harwicn.— We have had an 
immense immigration of Pieris brassice from the Continent. On Thurs- 
day, Aug. 1 lth, and for several days after, thousands were to be seen coming 
over the sea; large numbers were drowned. The lobster-catchers, who fish 
about five or six miles from the shore, told me that you could not look any- 
where over the sea without seeing white butterflies making for the shore. 
The larvee have swarmed in countless numbers; no one in this neighbour- 
hood ever remembers a similar visitation before. Ichneumons have 
destroyed the greater part of the larve; out of two hundred that I counted 
at the Phoenix Hotel, at Dovercourt, I found only thirty-seven pup, the 
other 163 having been destroyed by the ichneumon flies. —F. Kerry ; 
Harwich, Nov. 14, 1892. 
HoMALOPLIA RURICOLA.—I have pleasure in recording the occurrence 
of this rare lamellicorn at Streatley. On Aug. 26th I picked up a single 
example on a grassy hill-side, and also one specimen of Chrysomela hemo- 
ptera.—F. W. Lampert; 17, Woodstock Road, Oxford. 
NoroponTa DROMEDARIUS.—I beat a larva of this species from hazel on 
September 9th. Is not this an unusual food-plant ?—GervasE F’, Maruew; 
H.M.S. ‘ Tyne,’ Chatham. 
Nores on Lepipoprera IN SHROpPSHIRE.—Pieris napi has simply 
swarmed about here, while P. brassice and P. rape have been rather 
uncommon. Argynnis paphia has been very plentiful up to August 28th, 
when I saw about a dozen; while next day there was not one to be seen, 
nor has there been one seen since. Vanessa to, V. atalanta, and V. c-albuin 
have been and still are very numerous, V. atalanta in particular. Another 
very common butterfly is Pararge megera ; while, on the other hand, some 
of the commonest species seen were very scarce here, such as V. urtice, of 
which I have only seen 1 specimen; Hpinephele ianira, 3 specimens; 
E. tithonus, 2; EH. hyperanthus, 2; Canonympha pamphilus, 2; Polyom- 
matus phleas, 2; and Lycena icarus,1. Ihave only seen 1 specimen of 
V. cardui, which I captured on August 28th, and 1 Lycena arion on 
August 30th on a turnpike road. The above were seen by me in this neigh- 
bourhood since the 1st of August, and I have been out nearly every fine 
day from that date to the end of September. I may add that an unusual 
number of larvee of Arctia caia were seen crawling along the paths and 
roads.—E. H. Brackxmore; 13, Bull Ring, Ludlow, Salop. 
Nores From THE KentisH Coast.—I was staying with a friend, in 
the vicinity of Folkestone, during August, and found the season very good. 
Colias edusa was fairly common, and we secured a good series, amongst 
them being two var. helice. We never even saw C. hyale; but Vanessa 
cardui and V. atalanta swarmed everywhere. ‘The above locality seems to 
be very rich in Sphinges. I took two larvee of Acherontia atropos on a 
small patch of potatoes close to the sea, on Aug. 15th; one of them, stung 
by an ichneumon, died, but the other I succeeded in rearing, and obtained 
from the pupa, on Oct. 14th, an imago measuring four inches and seven- 
