194 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pieris Daplidice near Faversham. — T have great pleasure 

 in reporting the capture, by my daughter, of a male Daplidice, 

 on 10th July, at a quarter to 4 p.m., at the edge of a saintfoin 

 field, just outside Badging Wood, about half a mile from my 

 vicarage. — [Rev.^ B. S. Maiden ; Sheldwich Vicarage, Faver- 

 sham, August 12, 1872. 



Pieris Daplidice at Eastbourne. — On Friday, 16th August, 

 I caught here, on some slopes under Beachy Head, seven 

 specimens of Pieris Daplidice ; on the day following, Satur- 

 day, I caught one more: all but one of them are perfect 

 specimens. I should feel much obliged if you would give me 

 your opinion as to whether they breed here, or have been 

 blown across the Channel. I have never heard of so many as 

 eight of these butterflies being caught at one spot on the 

 English coast: they were all caught within a hundred yards 

 of each other. One peculiar part of it is, that the whole 

 eight are males. For some days before I caught them the 

 wind had been blowing strongly from the north-east: I think 

 the specimens are too perfect to have gone through such a 

 rough passage. — E. Simpson ; 28, Marine Parade, East- 

 bourne, August 18, 1872. 



[I have already expressed such grave doubts as to 

 Daplidice breeding in this country, that I think it best to 

 refer my correspondent to my last published observations, 

 'British Butterflies,' p. 15}).] 



Pieris Daplidice on Portsdown Hill. — I have taken to-day, 

 August 24, 1872, a nice specimen of Pieris Daplidice, by 

 appearance only just out, on Portsdown Hill, near the South- 

 wick Fort. The food-plant, the wild mignonette, grows near 

 there; and I should not think it is a blown-over specimen 

 from the other side of the Channel. — George Taylor ; Broom- 

 jield, near Cosham, Hants, August 24, 1872. 



Sphinx Ligustri feeding on Holly. — Is not holly rather an 

 unusual food for S. Ligustri ? I took a few of the larvae last 

 week feeding on a holly-hedge, and have put them on a tree 

 of the same kind in the garden, on which they continue to 

 feed. 1 have frequently taken them ofl" Laurustinns. — W. 

 J. Skelton ; The Bounds, Heme Hill, near Faversham, 

 Kent, July W, 1872. 



Zeuzera JEsculi. — A short time since I destroyed some of 

 the larvae of the above, feeding in some apple and pear trees 



