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I kicked one up in the evening on the neighbouring pasture land very worn. 

 The only other species worth mentioning were M. literosa (scarce), and two 

 very poor Apamea fibrosa. It is curious that the latter should be so worn, 

 as three or four days later, last year, they were only just coming out at 

 Wicken Fen. Most of the above also occurred commonly on the privet, 

 and, in addition, plenty of Plusia gamma and Hadena cheunpodii, the latter 

 being very scarce on treacle. This species I also saw on the privet in the 

 day time, flying with P. gamma in the afternoon sun. Whilst working for 

 L. pygmcEola, and when putting on the treacle, Mesotype virgata occurred 

 sparnigly, and, amongst the Crambi, C. perlelliis and var. warringtonellus 

 (common) and C. contaminellus (very scarce). 



I worked hard during the two and half days I had, although the first 

 day and last morning were very wet, and the second day so exceedingly 

 windy that scarcely anything flew except under shelter. On August 2nd, 

 however, in sheltered spots, butterflies were very abundant, and 1 then got 

 my first glimpse of Colias hgale, netting two fine males on the Kingsdowu 

 cliffs. This first indication of a Colias year was abundantly realised when 

 during the next fortnight I took large numbers of both C edusa and 

 C. hyale at Littlehampton. 



I walked along the cliffs in the wind to St. Margaret's Bay, and here 

 found Argynnis aglala common, but small and mostly worn. Lycana corydon 

 literally swarmed, but it was too windy to work for vars. Lyccena astrarche 

 was fairly common (but more plentiful on the sand-hills), and a single 

 female L. arglolus occurred in Upper Walmer. Pyrameis cardui turned up 

 everywhere, defying the wind with its strong flight, and Melanargla galatea 

 was common on the Kingsdowu cliffs. This species was also very small 

 compared with some taken at Chattenden a fortnight earlier. Polyommatus 

 pJilcEUS was abundant, and the specimens uniformly dark and dusky, some 

 of them being very extreme in this direction. This darkening in colour 

 was probably due to the effect of the excessive heat of raid-July upon the 

 pupae. 1 found Liparls clirysorrluca at once on the first morning, and, 

 although exceedingly local, it was abundant in its special locality, so 

 abundant in fact, and the food so limited, that I should imagine the larvae 

 would next year be in great danger of starvation. 



The hawthorn bushes in this spot are few and stunted, and from one of 

 them, not two feet high, I took eleven females, and counted twenty-one 

 batches of eggs. From a larger bush I took twenty-three females, each 

 one having a batch of ova beside her, and every bush had several specimens, 

 in many cases ten or more. There were also a number on blackthorn and 

 wild rose. I had no hesitation in taking a large number of specimens, all 

 but two having oviposited, and consequently minus their "tails," which of 

 course are used as a covering for the ova, but, curiously enough, could only 

 find three males. Their condition, owing to the rough weather, might 

 have been better, but many were very fair indeed. The batches of eggs, 

 judging from the ten I brought home, are very large. Three of them, in a 

 chip box, hatched unawares, and disported themselves on a lace window- 

 curtain, making such a show that I wished the batches had been smaller. 

 Leucoma salicls was also very common on a row of small poplars, both 

 sexes equally, sitting on the under side of ihe leaves, in the same way as 

 L. chrysorrhma did on the hawthorns; and a long series of Bryophila jjerla 

 was taken off walls in the town, two, with a bright orange-yellow ground 

 colour, coming off a wall covered with a bright yellow lichen. 



Ou the Kingsdowu cliffs I spent about an hour each day searching knap- 



