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be hard put to it to find food when they became larger. The 
E. venosata larve had nearly all pupated by August 1st, and the 
D. conspersa larve pupated after my arrival home, about 
August 25th. 
I only saw one specimen of H. velleda, although it is said 
sometimes to be verycommon. As there is practically no brake 
fern, so far as I could see, it is evident that in Unst the larve 
must use some other food—probably dock, which is very common 
round the walled-in fields. 
Coremia munitata we found in fair numbers only. As always 
with this insect the females were hard to find, and all I secured 
were taken at rest on rushes which grew in the sand between 
Loch of Cliffe and Burrafirth. Males, however, I took not un- 
commonly at Haroldswick and in the marshy meadows that line 
the burn which flows into the top end of Loch of Cliffe. 
E. albulata occurred almost everywhere with its food-plant. 
Both it and C. munitata were, of course, of the Shetland form, and 
very different from those found further south. 
We had intended to stay in Shetland for a month, but 
unfortunately the outbreak of the war robbed us of half our stay. 
When we left, Chareas graminis was just beginning to come out, 
but it was still too early for Noctua glareosa or Celena haworthii, 
both of which insects we wanted. 
The worst of Shetland is the long journey there. Once 
arrived, the Queen’s Hotel affords very good accommodation, the 
insects are most interesting—with hard work a good bag is 
practically a certainty—while to anyone fond of ornithology, the 
wealth of bird life is something entrancing. Even now I can 
hear in fancy the wild cry of the Richardson’s Skuas, and of the 
Great Skuas who were our nightly companions on our sugaring 
rounds. 
Feeringbury, Kelvedon: September 13th, 1914. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
ABUNDANCE OF OYANIRIS ARGIOLUS IN SouTH-Hast Sussex.— 
I was staying in Winchelsea during the latter part of August and 
the first part of September, and during my walks in the neighbour- 
hood I noticed that larve of Cyaniis argiolus were especially 
abundant. There is much ivy in the hedges along most of the roads 
there, and the blossoms are particularly luxuriant this year; and 
scarcely a patch of any size could be found which did not contain 
many larve. Pyrameis atalanta was also present in considerable 
numbers, and in places P. cardut was to be found; but I did not see 
a single specimen of Vanessa io, and very few V. wrtice. It is also 
worth recording that, during the whole five weeks of my stay, there 
was only one wet day.—F. A. OtpakEeR; The Red House, Haslemere, 
September 15th, 1914. 
