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condition. Being so late in the year, it seems not at all 

 improbable that they might hybernate ; or should they deposit 

 ova, the larva might possibly pupate and pass the winter in that 

 stage. — J. Tutt ; Beaconsfield Terrace, East Greenwich, S.E., 

 November, 1884. 



COLIAS EDUSA AND LYC.ENA ADONIS AT FOLKESTONE AND 



Dover. — Noticing the remarks of several of your correspondents 

 as to the appearance of C. edusa at various places this autumn, 

 I may record that I found it tolerably common at Dover in 

 September last, having taken some five-and-twenty and seen very 

 many others. I was also informed that it was out in some 

 numbers in the Warren at Folkestone, so there are some hopes 

 that next season may prove another " edusa year." The autumn 

 brood, too, of Lyccena adonis, was exceptionally abundant at 

 Folkestone, and, favoured by a spell of remarkably fine weather, 

 one of my boys and myself were able to secure a few very nice 

 varieties of this insect, the most notable being a black male, 

 slightly tinged with dull indigo in certain lights. This was one 

 of my son's captures, and unfortunately he must have had it in 

 his net some little time before he noticed it, as the margins of 

 the anterior wings are a little split ; otherwise, it is a particularly 

 fresh specimen, and is, I believe, a very uncommon form of this 

 species. — E. Sabine; 17, The Villas, Erith, November, 1884. 



GONEPTERYX RHAMNI AND COLIAS EDUSA IN DORSETSHIRE. — 



I have during the last season seen thirteen specimens of Go- 

 nepteryx rhamni in this county, all more than fifteen miles from 

 the borders of the surrounding counties. As I have always 

 understood that this was not a Dorsetshire butterfly, owing to the 

 absence of buckthorn, I thought it worth noting. Colias edusa 

 was very abundant round here in the second and third week of 

 October. — M. J. Mansfield; West Lulworth Vicarage, Dorset, 

 November 18, 1884. 



Vanessa atalanta V. cardui, and Plusia gamma in North 

 Devon. — Not having seen any notice in this magazine, as yet, of 

 the unusual abundance of Vanessa atalanta, V. cardui and Plusia 

 gamma this season, I venture to call attention to this fact. From 

 about the middle to the end of September, and on many fine days 

 since, these three insects have been in large numbers about here. 

 V. atalanta I have never seen so plentiful, neither V. cardui nor 



