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be bard put to it to find food wben they became larger. The 

 E. renosata larva? bad nearly all pupated by August 1st, and the 



D. conspersa larvae pupated after my arrival home, about 

 August 25th. 



I only saw one specimen of H. velleda, although it is said 

 sometimes to be very common. As there is practically no brake 

 fern, so far as I could see, it is evident that in Unst the larvse 

 must use some other food — probably dock, which is very common 

 round the walled-in fields. 



Coremia munitata we found in fair numbers only. As always 

 with this insect the females were hard to find, and all I secured 

 were taken at rest on rushes which grew in the sand between 

 Loch of Cliffe and Burrafirth. Males, however, I took not un- 

 commonly at Haroldswick and in the marshy meadows that line 

 the burn which flows into the top end of Loch of Cliffe. 



E. alhulata occurred almost everywhere with its food-plant. 

 Both it and C. munitata were, of course, of the Shetland form, and 

 very different from those found further south. 



We had intended to stay in Shetland for a month, but 

 unfortunately the outbreak of the war robbed us of half our staj'. 

 When we left, Charceas graminis was just beginning to come out, 

 but it was still too early for Noctua glareosa or Celaena haworthii, 

 both of which insects we wanted. 



The worst of Shetland is the long journey there. Once 

 arrived, the Queen's Hotel affords very good accommodation, the 

 insects are most interesting — with hard work a good bag is 

 practically a certainty — while to anyone fond of ornithology, the 

 wealth of bird life is something entrancing. Even now I can 

 hear in fancy the wild cry of the Richardson's Skuas, and of the 

 Great Skuas who were our nightly companions on our sugaring 

 rounds. 

 Feeringbury, Kelvedon : September 13th, 1914. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Abundance of Cyanieis aegiolus in South-East Sussex. — 

 I was staying in Winchelsea during the latter part of August and 

 the first part of September, and during my walks in the neighbour- 

 hood I noticed that larvae of Cyaniris argiolus were especially 

 abundant. There is much ivy in the hedges along most of the roads 

 there, and the blossoms are particularly luxuriant this year ; and 

 scarcely a patch of any size could be found which did not contain 

 many larvae. Pyrameis aialanta was also present in considerable 

 numbers, and in places P. cardui was to be found ; but I did not see 

 a single specimen of Vanessa io, and very few V. urticcB. It is also 

 worth recording that, during the whole five weeks of my stay, there 

 was only one wet day. — F. A. Oldaker ; The Red House, Haslomere, 

 September 15th, 1914. 



