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dant in Guernsey during August and September, but that he cannot 
recall having seen any helice or hyale there. From September 3rd 
to 15th I was in Normandy, in the wooded country on the right 
(north) bank of the Seine. But though the weather from September 
7th onwards was very fine no great profusion of C. edusa was 
observed. During that time about a dozen specimens in all were 
counted at several places between Lillebonne and Rouen. No helice 
or hyale were seen. Cambridge shared, at any rate moderately, in 
the general abundance of P. atalanta this season. The well-known 
attractiveness of the flowers of Buddleia to this butterfly was  strik- 
ingly demonstrated on August 15th in the Botanic Garden, when 
two large Buddleia bushes, more than a hundred yards apart, where 
entertaining altogether ten or twelve atalanta, as well as several 
Vanessa i0 and Pieris brassice, but no atalanta or 10 were to be seen 
anywhere else in the garden, though this is of considerable extent, 
and was then very flowery. PP. atalanta was plentiful in France 
during my stay. The flowers of Hupatoriwm (Hemp Agrimony), 
which was very abundant in places, seemed to be specially attractive 
to these insects. About September 9th fresh-looking specimens were 
seen, six to a dozen together, settling on great clumps of this plant 
beside the road along the bank of the Seine near Caudebec-en-Caux. 
Subsequently, between September 19th and 23rd, single specimens 
were noticed in the heart of Paris, flying over the flowers in the 
Jardin des Plantes and the Luxembourg Gardens. <Aglais wrtic@ is 
only mentioned to chronicle a rather late appearance. One of these 
butterflies was flying rather feebly, and sunning itself on stones, in 
the Cambridge Botanic Garden on October 24th. No other butter- 
flies were in evidence, but on ivy-blossom near by were numbers of 
wasps and bluebottles, and a large queen Bombus having the terrestris- 
type of colouring.—Huax Scorr; University Museum of Zoology, 
Cambridge. 
TRIGONOPHORA FLAMMEA IN SussEx.—Last week I received a 
specimen of T'rigonophora flammea from Chailey, Sussex. Beyond 
being slightly faded it is in good condition, even to legs and antenne. 
It was found hanging in a cobweb in a loft, and by its faded colouring 
I should say it had been there since last year. Fortunately the web 
was untenanted by any spider, nor had the bats which frequent the 
loft touched it. It has relaxed and set quite well—Sranury N. A. 
Jacops; 5, Exbury Road, Catford Hill, London, 8.1K. 6. 
Notes From CHINNor, Oxrorp.—I am glad to report the capture 
of Thecla prunit and Limenttis sibylla in a new locality, a collector 
having brought me fifteen of the former and four of the latter that he 
had taken. No doubt Mr. Rowland-Brown will be glad to read 
that Melanargia galatea seems to be rapidly spreading over many 
parts of the Oxfordshire Chilterns where formealy it did not occur. 
Pararge megera also, which apparently had gone, is now quite 
common again. On the other hand Agriades corydon has failed to 
appear on the Bucks Chilterns, where it generally swarms, although 
across the valley it was as common as usual on the Oxfordshire 
Chilterns. Colias edusa has put in an appearance ; it frequented the 
same places where I took this species in 1919. I found a colony 
