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have commenced feeding. I had always understood that 
eggs of this species were laid in the spring by hybernated 
females.—W. A. Luff; Guernsey, September 18, 1876. 
Colias Edusa.—The contributions you have lately pub- 
lished respecting Colias Edusa and C. Hyale embolden me 
to offer for record an instance of eggs of this species being 
laid before winter. On the 12th of August I captured a fine 
fresh female C. Edusa at rest: she laid in confinement ten 
eggs, exactly corresponding to the description in ‘ British 
Butterflies.” From these there emerged on the 18th August 
several larvae ; only two, however, lived for more than two or 
three days. These two fed well and grew fast Ull the 9th of 
September, when ove died during a change of skin; the 
other, however, lived and grew fast till the beginning of this 
month, when it was killed by accident. At this time it was 
probably within ten days of changing, and still feeding fast. 
—J. R. Phelps Farquharson ; Windsor, October 12, 1876. 
Ravages of Pieris Brassice.—The larva of this insect has 
appeared near here in very great abundance this year. A 
turnip field near this town has suffered greatly from its 
ravages, the foliage of the turnips in many parts of the field 
being entirely eaten off.— WV. D. Cansdale; Witham, Essex, 
September 23, 1876. 
Lycena argiolus—I am pleased to be able to record a 
new food-plant for this species. Mrs. Boley, a lady much 
interested in rearing Lepidoptera, induced a female of 
Lycena argiolus to deposit its eggs by enclosing it under a 
glass shade with some ivy blossom and other flowers. It took 
no notice of the ivy, but laid its eggs on blackberry (Rubus) 
blossom. The young larve are now feeding on the pollen of 
these flowers.— W. A. Luff; Guernsey, September 18, 1876. 
Sphine Convolculi in Orkney.—lIn the autumn of last year 
Sphinx Convolvuli was abundant at Swanbister, on the south 
coast of the Mainland of Orkney, about half-way between 
Kirkwall and Stromness. The first 1 took was on the 
evening of the 12th August, 1875; and I saw several every 
night until the 16th or the morning of the 17th, when [ left 
Orkney for the sonth. A week afterwards my niece, Miss 
Irvine Fortescue, in a letter, said—“ The large moths have 
been in the garden in numbers every evening since you left.” 
1 caught ten specimens flying over honeysuckle and single 
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