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CoLiAS EDUSA IN EssEX, — Duiiug August I visited acres "of lucerne 

 and clover, but found eilusa very scarce, seeing only one specimen on 

 Aug. 9th near Wickford, and three apparently freshly emerged speci- 

 mens on Sept. 1st. One was seen at Waterford on Aug. 23rd, and I 

 have heard of a few others having been seen in the southern counties. 



F. W. Feohawk. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN HAMPSHIRE. — I saw about half a dozen examples of 

 C. edma Hying along the undercliff at Barton-on-Sea. They were 

 frequently noticed settling on the gravel of the clift", and when in this 

 position were most difficult to distinguish from their surroundings. — 



G. F. Lyle ; Brockenhurst, Sept. 12th. 



CoLiAS EDUSA AND C. HYALE IN Kent. — On Sept. 3rd, at Chatham, 

 I came upon some C. edma in a clover-field, and took nine specimens 

 in fine condition ; yesterday I visited the same field, expecting to find 

 more C. edum, but not one was to be found. I took, however, twenty- 

 nine C. hyale, all quite good. I have never before found the two species 

 on the saaie ground. — F. A. Parry ; Lougport, Canterbury. 



CoLiAS EDUSA, C. HYALE, Sphinx convolvuli, &c., IN Kent. — Autumn 

 butterflies have not turned up here in any numbers. C. ediisa was 

 captured as early as Aug. 4th, and several specimens were seen. On 

 the 4th inst. I noticed six specimens here. Only one C. hyale has been 

 observed, and that was flying on the beach. Worn specimens of 

 Pi/rameis cardui have been seen from March till July, when their 

 successors appeared, only in small numbers. I have just had Sphinx 

 convolvuli brought to me — a wreck. M((cro(/lossa stellatanim is rather 

 plentiful.— T. P. Bakrett ; St. John's Villas, Margate, Sept. 11th. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN SouTH Wales. — Four male specimens of this 

 butterfly were captured by me in the same field here on Aug. 27th 

 last. Several others were seen. On Sept. 17th I saw flitting rapidly 

 past me on a steep decUvity in this neighbourhood a splendid example 

 of C. edtisa. It disappeared over some bushes ahead of me. About 

 half-a-mile further on, while about 40 ft. on the side, I perceived 

 below me, flying very swiftly before the wind, either tlie same insect 

 or another, and, following it from my vantage ground, saw it very 

 suddenly settle about 200 yards from where I first noticed it. Hurriedly 

 approaching, I found it egg-laying on birds'-foot trefoil (Lotus cornicii- 

 latus). Before I could net it, I saw it fly about three yards away and 

 deposit another egg. I then quickly effected its capture, and conveyed 

 it home with the eggs it had laid. At ten o'clock this morning 

 (Sept. 18th) I watched the butterfly being aroused from its slumber 

 on a growing plant of trefoil, on which I had placed it overnight 

 and covered with gauze. Its first movement was to wipe its palju (!) 

 several times with its fore feet, and then, after ineftectual attempts to 

 escape, it fell among the trefoil and immediately laid an egg by arching 

 its abdomen up higlily, with wings hanging downwards. At 11 o'clock 

 ten eggs were laid. At 5 p.m. it fed greedily of honey on the gauze, 

 and laid fifteen eggs immediately afterwards. Altogether I can count 

 about fifty eggs, all laid to-day, and each laid singly, with one ex- 

 ception, when two were laid side by side. Is not this proof of the 

 double-broodedness of C. edusa as a Welsh native, and not a blown- 



