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at the time I met fchem that they had caught liclice, but they were 

 so positive that it was not so and that they knew the variety quite 

 well that I accepted their statement as correct. I am sorry for the 

 mistake, and hasten to correct it.— (Rev.) J. E. TAunAT; Fareham, 

 Hants. 



COLIAS EDUSA AND PyRAMEIS ATALANTA, ETC., IN BRIGHTON 



District. — C. edusa was recorded near Brighton in early June, 

 ft,nd others seen between Shoreham and Arundel. I took a 9 flying 

 on the Patcham Downs on June 6th, but although it remained alive 

 ten days no ova were deposited. I examined this specimen closely. 

 It was not freshly emerged ; a chalky whitish stain appeared on the 

 upper wings, probably caused by damp when hibernating, much 

 resembling the stain I have seen on some of the spring-flying 

 Goncptcryx rhamni. During August and up to the middle of 

 September edusa was seen at Angmering, Goring, Worthing, 

 Lancing, Shoreham, Hove, Brighton streets. Dyke Valley, Roedean, 

 Falmer, Glynde and Lewes. I took them in half-dozens at some 

 of these places — among which were three C. hyalc. A collector 

 friend of mine took between six and seven dozen, but he stated he 

 walked sixty miles to obtain them. The unsettled weather ex- 

 perienced during August and September was all against taking a 

 quantity. On September 28th I knocked down a $ editsa with 

 my cap ; it was flying very slowly and low over the stones on the 

 Brighton Beach, otherwise I could not have captured it. It was 

 a very fine specimen as if just emerged from pupa. It may be she 

 formed one of the numerous parties of butterflies, mostly P. atalanta, 

 which for the last two months have been observed by occupants 

 of boats at sea, flying towards the coast of Sussex. During this 

 pleasant summerlike weather I revisit some of the likely spots 

 to see if a fresh brood is about. I have read in Newman's book 

 on butterflies of a collector who took several hundred edusa in 

 October and November, and history has a way of repeating itself. 

 To-day (October 11th) I found several larvae and pupa3 of P. atalanta 

 on nettles on my allotment at Brighton. These will all probably 

 mature this year if kept warm, but what if the weather turned 

 cold and inclement for a long period ? It might properly be assumed 

 the pupa3 would probably lay over to the spring before emerging. 

 Five years ago I took some pupte in October, and to luy surprise 

 they came out on Christmas Day. The usual crimson bordering on 

 the lower wing in some of these was of a light brick colour. All 

 butterflies usually taken here have been abundant this year. — -F. G. S. 

 Bramwell ; Brighton. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN MIDDLESEX. — I have not come across C. edusa 

 in Middlesex this year under my own observation, but a friend 

 informs me that he saw an example flying on the railway-bank just 

 outside Uxbridge Metropolitan station on a fine day in the first week 

 of October. — H. Rowland-Brown ; Harrow Weald, October 23rd, 

 1920. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN SuEREY. — I saw two Specimens of C. edusa 

 flying over a field of lucerne at Horley,jDut caught neither. — D. G. 

 Sevastopui.o ; Colvin House, Haileybury, Herts. 



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