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Art. CXIII. — Additional Notes on the appearance of Colias Hyale. 



As regards the capture of Colias Hyale, I can say but little. 1 captured one female 

 on the 24th ; on the 26th I saw a second specimen, the day was sunny and hot ; its 

 flio-ht was excessively rapid, it made the circuit of a four-acre field in about a minute 

 and a half. I observed that it rested once or twice on the flowers of Centaurea nigra 

 and a few scattered buttercups, tlie last meadow children of the year. — James Harlerj; 

 Leicestei-, September 10, 1842. 



With respect to Colias Hyale, I captured them in some high pastures behind the 

 Hope Inn, Lower Southend, Essex. They were flying with the common white but- 

 terflies (Pontia Brassicae and Rapse), and appeared to frequent the same flowers. The 

 fields were chiefly pastures, but there were places where the aftermath had not been 

 mown, and numerous grasses and wild flowers were in blossom. I took one specimen 

 on the 12th and four on the 13th of August, and one subsequently at Springfield on 

 the 7th of September. — Alfred Greenwood ; Springjield, September 8, 1842. 



A friend of mine informs me that two specimens of Colias Hyale have been taken 

 this August at Birmingham. — R. S. Edleston ; 13, Derby St., Cheetham, Manchester, 

 August 27, 1842. 



Last week, while spending an hour or two at Great Yeldham, in Essex, my atten- 

 tion was called to a specimen of Colias Hyale, which was passing rather rapidly along 

 a hedge by the road-side. I afterwards saw a second in a neighbouring clover-field. 

 — William Doubleday King ; Sudbury, September 3, 1842. 



Since writing to you before I have heard of six or seven dozen of Colias Hyale be- 

 ing taken at Darenth. — William Courtney. 



Sir, — I beg to inform you that T obtained about fifty specimens of this beautiful 

 insect [Colias Hyale] in the course of four or five days' casual entomologizing during 

 the middle of last August, at Heme Bay ; six only were females. — W. F. Evans ; 

 Walham Green. 



A single specimen of Colias Hyale was taken about 2\ miles from Lavenham, on 

 the Long Melford road, while feeding on dandelion. — W. Gaze ; Lavenham. 



Colias Hyale. — A female specimen of this insect was captured on the 4th of Sep- 

 tember, in a clover-field near Didsbury, four miles from here, and the neighbourhood 

 was well examined for some days afterwards, but without success. I am not aware of 

 its capture in this county before, and the old collectors say it is many years since 

 Edusa was seen. — R. S. Edleston; 13, Derby St., Cheetham, Manchester. 



Sir — On the 3rd of September I captured on the borders of a wood near the vil- 

 lage of Silverstone in this neighbourhood, a mutilated specimen of Colias Hyale, (fe- 

 male). It was flying when first I saw it, but it afterwards settled several times on the 

 flowers of the thistle. I remember the fact perfectly well, as I had not my net with 

 me, and spent some time in endeavouring to secure it, while it was stationary, with 

 my finger and thumb, which I at last succeeded in doing. I afterwards repeatedly 



