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close to the sea-shore. Another specimen was captured by me on Sept. 

 6th, at Gurnard, near Cowes, Isle of Wight. It was flyiug very slowly 

 along the shore, and was not difficult to net. Immediately after this 

 capture I saw yet another specimen, but was not fortunate enough to 

 secure it, as it was flying too fast. C. edusa was in profusion this year in 

 the Isle of Wight, and also on Portsdown Hill. At Hayling Island, near 

 Portsmouth, C. edusa was abundant, and I saw C. hyale there also — 

 Edmund Winder ; 108, Lawrence Road, Southsea, Nov. 28th. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN OcTOBER, 1900. — On Oct. 19th I took a female 

 C. edusa, in the garden of a house on the cliff-front at Bournemouth, and 

 on the •24th of the same mouth the species was flying in some numbers on 

 the sides of both the east and west cliffs at the same place, but, owing to 

 the difficult nature of the ground, I was only able to secure one specimen — 

 a male. Both this latter specimen and the one taken in the garden above- 

 mentioned are of interest from the fact that they were in absolutely perfect 

 condition, notwithstanding the lateness of the season and the bad weather 

 which we were then experiencing. I should say they had only emerged on 

 their respective dates of capture. They are, moreover, considerably smaller 

 than the usual size, and particularly well marked, especially the female. 

 From this I am inclined to think that they represent a second autumnal 

 brood. I may add that I saw no C. hyale at Bournemouth. — H. Ainslie 

 Hill; 9, Addison Mansions, Kensington, W. 



CoLiAS hyale. — Three woru specimens captured by a youth iu 

 Birchington Marshes, in mid-July, set us on the watch. The first fresh 

 specimen was noticed Aug. 15th, and on the 17th I netted and pinned 

 exactly fifty specimens in two hours. Afterwards I was content to look for 

 varieties, but without success, as to size. The insects scattered and got 

 worn so quickly that I doubt if they winter here. — J. P. Barrett. 



Acherontia atropos and Vanessa (Cynthia) cardui in Salop. — 

 In reply to your note in the December ' Entomologist,' I beg to state that 

 A. atropos has occurred in several localities about this district during the 

 present year. I had four full-fed larvae brought to me, from which 1 have 

 succeeded in rearing three perfect insects by forcing. I hear also that a 

 collector iu the neighbouring town of Whitchurch has obtaiued three 

 larvae, one of which I saw before its pupation. And in the neighbourhood 

 of Market Drayton a large number of pupae have been found by the 

 potato-diggers, as many as a hundred being met with on one farm, though 

 they did not find their way to me. I have also taken several fresh speci- 

 mens of V. cardui. — Chas. F. Thornewill ; Calverhall Vicarage, Whit- 

 church, Salop, Dec. 14th, 1900. 



Acherontia atropos in Kendal District. — It might be of interest, 

 to complete my note on A. atropos (Entom. xxxiii. 353), to add that four 

 more males (the last of female proportions) have successfully emerged (all 

 from larvae I myself found), under gentle warming by the fire, on the follow- 

 ing dates :—l8t, Nov. 11th; 2nd, Nov. 12th; 3rd, Nov. I6th; 4th, Nov. 

 24th. All the specimens emerged between 8 and 12 p.m. — A. M. Moss; 

 12, Greenside Kendal. 



Acherontia atropos in Yorkshire. — Hovingham, August (Worsley); 

 Boston Spa, Aug. 19th (Prince) ; two larvae, Ripon (Smith) ; fifteen larvae, 

 Beverley (Boyes) ; Keighley, Aug. 30th (Longton) ; an imago, Aug. 30th, 

 Horsforth ; larvae, Netherton (White). The above records are from the 



