282 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CoLiAs EDUSA Eeared FROM OvA.— This has not been a real ednsa 

 year in Sussex. From the first week in August to the end of the 

 month there were a good many about but they were never really 

 thick. I went out for them on a good many days, and the most 

 I took was ten on one day. The proportion of females to males 

 was about 1 to 4 out of a total of thirty-six taken. I took one 

 var. pallida on August 30th, but no specimens of G. hyale were 

 seen. I never saw one C. edusa more than a mile from the sea, 

 and I am convinced they are all immigrants. I saw most by far 

 within 100 yards of the sea, and all appeared to come from south 

 and to have a tendency to fly north. From a small batch of eggs 

 laid by a damaged female about August 20th I got six larvae hatched 

 September 4th. They pupated October 14th to 19th. Imagines 

 emerged on November 11th, incliKling one ab. imllida (Jielice). The 

 larvas were fed on young large-leaved clover grown up since the 

 field was mowed for cattle-feed, and they did well on it. Others 

 of the same batch were fed on lucerne. The larvie are quite 

 unenterprising creatures, and will hardly take the trouble to move 

 from the stale food to fresh. They progress by a jerky glide, each 

 little jerk taking them about -J^ inch. They can be kept quite 

 safely on a bunch of clover in water without being in any way 

 confined. Last week I was playing golf at Rye on the 12th, and 

 I saw a couple of G. edusa. I went on the 13th with a net, and 

 in about two hours' sunshine I noted about thirty flying on the 

 sandhills just above high-water mark and took seven perfect ones, 

 all small males. I think they are late arrivals, or unmated males 

 which have survived. No females were observed. I saw one 

 Pohjommatus icarns, four Ghrysophanus phlaas, and a good many 

 Phtsia gamma, otherwise the G. edusa had the dunes to themselves. 

 They were feeding on a common yellow flower I do not know the 

 name of. — A. Bingham Crabbe (Major) ; Grand Avenue Mansions, 

 Hove. 



POLYGONIA C- ALBUM, ETC., IN SOMERSET. 1 took OnO P. C-alhuVl 



in the garden here on September 11th and saw one C. edusa on Sep- 

 tember 19th. Throughout September P. atalanta was very numerous 

 and in tine condition. Very few Vanessa io or Aglais urticce seen 

 and no Pyramcis cardui. — Waldegrave ; Chewton Priory, Chewton- 

 Mendip, Somerset. 



PoLYGONiA G-ALBUM. — Mr. PaskeU's note of this species at 

 Wanstead Park (antea, p. 235) reminds me that it used to occur at 

 Enfield. I have two specimens in my collection which my father 

 took here in 1872. He often told me that he had noticed it in some 

 numbers as a young man. I have not seen the species here during 

 my lifetime. — H. M. Edelsten ; Forty Hill, Enfield. 



Note on Aglais urtice.^ — While in my dressing-room on August 

 14th, about 4 p.m., a specimen came in through the open window, 

 fluttered round the room and into a cupboard, where it at once 

 took up a position on the ceiling. It is still there, and has shown 

 no inclination to go out again, however fine the weather has been. 

 Is this not rather an early date to commence hibernation ? — H. M. 

 Edelsten ; Forty Hill, Enfield, October 12th, 1920. 



