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examined that and other localities in the neighbourhood, but with all my endeavours 

 could not succeed in meeting with another specimen. This is certainly the first time 

 that this species has been met with here during the last three years, beyond that time 

 I cannot speak with any degree of certainty. — Hamlet Clark ; Wappenkam, Towcester^ 

 October 3, 1842. 



On the 28th of August I caught a fine female of Colias Hyale, as it was flying 

 along the cliffs overhanging the sea to the west of Ventnor. It had a very rapid flight, 

 and occasionally settled on the common thistle. In 1 836 however, we were more suc- 

 cessful, as in that year we captured four specimens, two of each sex ; a pair of them 

 were taken on the beach, flying over the furze which grows in the sand, and a pair in 

 clover-fields ; all of them in the immediate vicinity of Ryde. — Andrew Lighton ; Belle 

 Vue Cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, August 30, 1842. 



With respect to Colias Hyale, we have taken eight specimens here between the 

 14th and 28th of August. C. Edusa is occasionally taken here, but has not been seen 

 during the present year. We have no lucerne, but there is abundance of clover, al- 

 though on Tilmire, where two were captured, there was nothing of the sort, it is a 

 barren heath, overgrown with furze-bushes and thistles. One specimen which I took 

 myself, was flying with great swiftness ; of the eight specimens taken one only was a 

 female. I believe this butterfly has not been previously taken at York since the hot 

 summer of 1826, when one was taken on the embankment of the city walls, a second 

 in T. and J. Backhouse's nursery, and two or three more near Skelton, about four miles 

 from York.— r. H. Allis ; York, September 3, 1842. 



Sir, — I have this year, between the 3rd and 26th of August, captured fifty-four spe- 

 cimens of Colias Hyale, at New Cross, in the lucerne field where we took them toge- 

 ther in 1835. — Daniel Ardley ; Rotherhithe, October 5, 1842. 



In addition to these, the number of captures, which have been com- 

 municated to me by word of mouth, amount to about 250, all of them 

 in the vicinity of London, and generally in lucerne-fields ; the dates 

 range over the month of August. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. CXIV. — Variety. 



226. Colias Philodice. In your remarks on Colias Hyale (Entomol. 

 386), you speak of Mr. Ardley's being convinced that he had seen C. 

 Philodice ; something more than this occurred in this neighbourhood, 

 a specimen having been actually captured at Collyhurst, after a des- 

 perate chase of two hours, the pursuing parties having no other im- 

 plements than their hats, and the locality being a very awkward one. 

 Still, tliis does not establish it as a native, for in my opinion the chry- 

 salis must have been brought over with dye-woods, which are groimd 



