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CoLiAS HYALE IN 1902, — I toolc a male C. hyale here to-day, not 

 far from where I took two specimens on Oct. 20th last year. Are we 

 going to have another clouded-yellow year? — Percy E. Fkeke ; 

 Folkestone, May 25th, 1902. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN 1902. — To-day one of my boys, who was playing 

 cricket at Felixstowe, saw one of these butterflies in a field where 

 clover and vetches were growing. He gave chase to it and nearly 

 knocked it down with his cap. There were a few gleams of sun during 

 the afternoon, but otherwise it has been a cold unseasonable day and, 

 considering the wet wintry kind of weather we have experienced since 

 the last week of April, it is rather strange that this species should 

 have put in an appearance. It can scarcely have been an immigrant. 

 Gervase F. Mathew; Dovercourt, Essex, June 11th, 1902. 



EupiTHEciA trisignaria IN ScoTLAND. — I liave been fortunate in 

 rearing several specimens of this insect from larvje taken on Angelica 

 sylvestris last September in Argyleshire. I cannot ascertain whether 

 it has hitherto been noticed in Scotland, and this record of it may 

 therefore be interesting. It certainly does appear in the Clyde 

 District list published last summer. — John A. Nix ; 20, Hans Place, 

 S.W. 



Amphidasys betularia var. doubledayaria in Essex. — On May 27th 

 I bred a fine example of the above from a larva taken here last autumn. 

 This is the first time I have observed the variety in this district. To- 

 day I bred another, a very interesting variety, thorax and abdomen 

 black, front part of head white, wings nearly black, dusted here and 

 there with white atoms. — Gervase F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, Essex, 

 June 11th, 1902. 



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Entomological Society of London. — May 7th, 1902. — The Rev. 

 Canon Fowler, M. A., D. Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. — Mr. 

 Charles R. Chichester, B.A., M.B., L.R.C.P., of Bathurst, Gambia, 

 West Africa, and Clonmore, Co. Cork ; and Mr. J. H, Lewis, of Opliir, 

 Otago, New Zealand, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. H. W. 

 Shepheard-Walwyn exhibited a gynandromorphous specimen of Antho- 

 chnris cnrdcniiines, taken near Winchester in 1899. The left side was 

 that of a normal male, the right that of a normal female, with the 

 exception of a splash of orange pigment on the under side of the 

 primary. — Mr. H. Goss exhibited male specimens of Saturnia carpini 

 from Essex, bred on whitethorn, and three males of the same species 

 caught in Surrey by the aid of bred virgin females. He remarked that 

 as a rule bred specimens were smaller than wild, but the bred Essex 

 specimens were much larger than those captured in Surrey. The 

 Essex specimens were light in colour, while the Surrey specimens 

 were not only much smaller in size, but very dark, probably because 

 their larvae had fed upon Erica or Calluna. — Colonel C. Swinhoe 

 announced the emergence of Coasus ligniperda in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens from a pupa received in a piece of wood from South 



