iorset j:c]jibo}jtcni in 1892-3, 



With Description of the Larva of Epischnia Bankesiella, Rdm. 



By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A., F.E.S. 



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T is with some liesitation that I take upon myself the 

 task of writing about the Entomology of the 

 past season, as I have been able to do but very 

 little collecting myself, owing to the fact that 

 my eyes have not been in a condition to do 

 more than a very little setting, especially of the 

 smaller moths, and if one cannot preserve them 

 it is of no use to catch them. I have, however, 

 a few notes of interest to record, and the 

 general features of both 1892 and 1893 have 



been so peculiar, from an Entomological point of view, as to deserve 



mention. 



Perhaps the most striking phenomenon in the past two years 



has been the appearance amongst us in great numbers in 1892, 



and in smaller numbers in 1893, of a butterfly which is generally 



a rarity, Colias Eihisa, the " Clouded yellow." 



In 1892 specimens began to be seen in the latter part of ]\Iay, 



and became common about the beginning of June. In Sussex » 



