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tolerable numbers. We have three times in our ex- 

 perience found its young family feeding under the 

 shelter of a silken awning on a quickset hedge (the 

 hawthorn) on Hucksholt and Church Farms, and on 

 each occasion bred the perfect insect from them. 



The Large Garden White (Pieris Brassicce), the 

 Small Garden White (Pieris Rapce), and the Green- 

 veined White (Pieris Napi) are, we need scarcely say, 

 always abundant, but never before nor since have we 

 seen such an extraordinary flight of the first of these 

 species as we did on one occasion in the summer of 

 1868. For more than three hours did they swarm 

 past the house and over the highest beech trees in un- 

 diminished numbers, always in a straight course from 

 south-west to north-east, as if they were intent on 

 keeping a general appointment at some distant rendez- 

 vous. It was on one of those tropical days in August 

 for which that season will long be memorable, without 

 a breath to ruffle the foliage, and a spectator, looking 

 towards the south across the lawn, might at the end of 

 the three hours have aptly exclaimed, "The cry is 

 still they come." Legions of these butterflies were 

 observed about the same time in other localities, but 

 no allusion is made to their uniform line of flight in 

 any of the records of the phenomenon which we have 

 seen in periodicals. 



The Orange Tip (Euchloe Cardamines] is one of our 

 common butterflies, and a very pretty one it is, but 

 its winged life appears to be of brief duration, seldom 

 much exceeding a summer month, during which it 

 may be seen on duty among the wild flowers fringing 

 the hedgerows, by the woodside and in bye lanes. 



The Marbled White (Arge Galathea) makes its 

 appearance later in the summer than the last and is 

 not so generally distributed, we have'met with it occa- 

 sionally on West Harting Down, in Holkham Lane, 

 and, more frequently, in Padswood Copse, in which 

 latter locality the Speckled Wood Butterfly (Lasiom- 



