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COLIAS KDUSA AND C. HYALE TN ENGLAND, 1900, 



It will perhaps be remembered that the abundance of C. edusa in the 

 autumn of 1892 was foreshadowed by the occurrence of one or more ex- 

 amples of the species in various parts of the country at the end of May 

 and the beginning of June of that year. In some of the localities C. edusa 

 was accompanied in the autumn by C. hyale, but of this latter species very 

 few specimens seem to have been noticed earlier in the year; only one 

 record appears in the ' Entomologist.' 



During the present year C. edusa was observed in June at Beachy Head, 

 Sussex (12th) ; Devonport, Devon (22ud) ; Wiveliscombe, Somerset (23rd) ; 

 Ringwood, Hants (23rd); and in a recent note Mr. H. 0. Wells records a 

 fine male specimen taken at Weston, Devon, on June 19th. Of C. hyale 

 there is but one notice, but this mentions the capture of two specimens at 

 Beachy Head on June 12th, and Mr. Colthrup informs us that he saw 

 this species, as well as C. edusa, at Beachy Head about the middle of 

 June last. 



Berkshire. — On Aug. 13th I captured three specimens of this butterfly 

 at Cumnor, Berks, and since that date have taken twenty (nineteen males 

 and one female) flying over clover and along the roadside. I also obtained 

 two C. hyale at Wootten. — Harold Thompson; 0.\ford. 



During August my son and I captured twenty specimens of C. hyale 

 and two examples of C. edusa var. helice in Berkshire, not far from 

 Streatley. — (Rev.) Archibald Day; The Vicarage, Malvern Link. 



Brecknockshire. — On August 18th I saw a specimen oiC. edusa near 

 Llangorse. — D. P. Tqrner. 



Bucks. — I captured a female specimen of G. hyale and saw C. edusa in 

 a clover field, also noticed a male of the first-named species on the railway 

 embankment, at Chorley Wood, on September 13th last. — (Rev.) F. A. 

 Walker. 



I captured two specimens each of C. edusa and C. hyale on August 25th 

 in a field of lucerne at Cheshara. — D. Chittenden ; 98, Court Hill Road, 

 Lewisham, S.E. 



On August 19th I counted six specimens of C. edusa flying over 

 afield of lucerne near Beaconsfield. Not having my net. was unable to 

 make any captures. — W. H. Bastow ; The Poplars, Spencer Road, Grove 

 Park,W. 



Cambridgeshire. — On August 14th I saw near Pampisford Station a 

 single C. hyale among a lot of C. edusa, and missed it. Returning to the 

 same place next morning I had the pleasure of taking a fine male ; and on 

 the 17th saw three others, and took 'one, near Whittlesford. This locality 

 yielded another on the 18th. Hitherto it has only appeared singly, but 

 C. edusa has been fairly plentiful on the same ground. — E. G. Alderson ; 

 Pampisford Vicarage, Aug. 23rd. 



Cheshire.— C. edusa has been fairly common about "The Cop" 

 (river embankment) and adjacent clover fields on the right of the Dee below 

 Chester. The first I saw was a fine female flying about a lucerne field, 

 Aug. I7th. Up to to-day (Sept. 8th), when I obtained a male in very fair 

 condition, quite a dozen, to my knowledge, have been captured, and others 

 have been seen. The colleague of the butterfly, Plusia gamma, has been 

 unusually numerous. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



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