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variety is most common, and the temperature of those parts 
would be most acceptable, and perbaps help to clear up what 
appears to me a very interesting question.—R. A. Rolfe ; 
Sluffynwood, near Mansfield. 
Vanessa Antiopa near Basingstoke.—A fine specimen of 
this insect was captured for me near this place, by a young 
friend, on the 17th inst. When given to me it was not quite 
dead.— W. D. Milsom; Southern Road, Basingstoke, 
August 23, 1876. 
Vanessa Antiopa at Chellenham.—This, like most other 
rarities, fell to my lot quite by accident, and when [ was least 
expecting to make a capture. It was feeding upon the juice 
Which was running down an elm tree, from a place where 
Cossus larve were feeding, in one of the public streets of 
Cheltenham. I climbed up the tree and endeavoured to catch 
it with my hat, as I had no net with me. [t escaped, aud flew 
into a gentleman’s garden. Despatching a messenger for a 
net, in the cause of science | climbed over the palings, and 
pursned it over the flower-beds, capturing it eventually on 
some ivy. It wasa five female, and newly emerged. ‘The 
date of the capture was the 5th August, 1871. Five other speci- 
mens were reported, as seen, to our College Natural History 
Society at Cheltenham; but mine was the only capture.— 
E. K. Robinson; Sandcliffe, Rake, near Petersfield. 
Vanessa Antiopa in Filey Bay.— Yesterday, August 15th, 
whilst in a boat fishing in Filey Bay, | caught a Vanessa 
Antiopa, which settled on the sail of the boat.—G. D. Armt- 
tage; North Dalton, Hull. 
Colias Edusa and var, Helice in Carmarthenshire-—My 
brother-in law, Mr. C. A. Lord, this morning captured the 
first specimen of Colias Edusa that | have seen taken in 
Carmarthenshire since 1870, in which year males of the 
species were plentiful in this locality. The specimen taken 
by Mr. Lord is a female var. Helice, and was seen flying 
along the turnpike road. In the afternoon we repaired to the 
spot where Edusa had formerly been so abundant,-—a steep 
hill-side covered with furze bushes, with here and there 
patches carpeted with flowers, and swarming with insect life. 
There were butterflies innumerable ; but, being rather late on 
the ground, we only saw one Edusa, and that of the ordinary 
type. I have never seen this butterfly on the wing after four 
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