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three females were seen on Esher Common, two of them being easily 

 captured. By June 9th they were well out at the Pond, but so lively were 

 they in the bright sunshine that one could only admire them at a distance. 

 On the last-mentioned date a single specimen of Platycnemis i^ennipes, 

 Pall., was secured at the Black Pond, this, with I. elegans, being additions 

 to my list for that locality. Of Platetrum depressum, Linn., about half a 

 dozen have been sighted, of which one was captured on June 2nd near 

 Esher. — W, J. Lucas, B.A., St. Mary's, Knight's Park, Kingston-on- 

 Thames, June 11th, 1895. 



Orgyia gonostigma. — It may be worth recording the successful emer- 

 gence of the Orgyia gonostigma which I recorded, ante, p. 182. My friend 

 and I got eight females and four males out of twelve larvae found; he sub- 

 sequently took the females out to the place where the larvae were found, and 

 succeeded in attracting six males, mostly in fine condition. It is a curious 

 fact that the female larvae of this insect undergo an extra moult, instead of 

 the same number as the male. I have found it to be the invariable rule with 

 0. antiqua, and have noticed it in some cases with Ocneria dispar. It 

 would be interesting to notice whether this rule holds good with other 

 moths whose females are much larger than the males. — H. W. Shepheard- 

 Walwyn ; Hertford College, Oxford. 



Sphinx ligustri two winters in Pupa. — On June 5th ult., in the 

 afternoon, a fine specimen of Sphinx ligustri emerged, after being almost 

 two years in the pupal condition, it having turned on the last day of 

 August, 1893. The larva was procured at Bournemouth. — Douglas B. 

 Gloyns; 30, Market Place, Kingston-on-Thames, June Gth, 1895. 



CoLTAS edusa, &c., IN MIDDLESEX. — I am glad to be able to report 

 the reappearance of Colias ediisa this year. On Saturday, June 9th, I was 

 walking along the North-Western Railway bank, about half a mile from 

 Pinner Station, when a female flew past me, going at a great rate. This 

 was at the identical spot where I first saw the species in 1892. About an 

 hour later I came across a second specimen, also a female, in Oxhey Wood, 

 which at this particular point is just in Hertfordshire. All the other 

 spring butterflies were very plentilul, Lyccena icarus swarming upon the 

 trefoil in company with Nisoniades tages and several Syrichthus malva, 

 while I also saw single specimens of Arctia villica and Euchelia jacobceoi. 

 In the hayfields Procris statices, Halia tenehrata, Euclidia mi and E. 

 glyphica have also been unusually abundant. — H. Rowland Brown ; 

 Oxhey Grove, Harrow W^eald, June 9th, 1895. 



Colias edusa at Reading. — On June 3rd I saw a fine male Colias 

 edusa flying in a clover-field near here. — W. E. Butler ; HayUng House, 

 Reading, June 15th, 1895. 



Colias edusa in Wales. — When in Carmarthenshire on June 7th I 

 noticed a female C. edusa depositing ova on the bird'sfoot trefoil [Lotus 

 corniculatus). — T. B. Jefferys; 17, New King Street, Bath, June 13th. 



Coccyx cosmophorana, &c., in Lancashire. — From June 1st my wife 

 and 1 spent eight days at Grange on health account. 1 was lame, and could 

 not remain over two hours on my legs ; so my wile did most of the catching, 

 and I manipulated the boxing. My special object was to study the habit 

 of Putalis fuscocenea and, if possible, to help my friend Mr. E. R. Bankes 



