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a fine specimen of Colias edusa flew over a gate into the road, but 

 escaped before I could get out my net, which had just previously 

 been placed under my rainproof coat during one of the many showers 

 which fell on that day.— C. Granville Clutterbuck; 23, Heath- 

 ville Eoad, Gloucester, November 8th, 1912. 



Colias edusa, &c., in North Devon. — I arrived here on the 

 8th inst. On the 9th Colias edusa was seen, and a full-grown larva 

 of Sphinx ligustri taken at Torrington. On the same day a fresh- 

 looking E^Jinephele ianira was seen, and numbers of Pyrameis 

 atalanta and Pliisia gamma, a few Vanessa urticce, and one V. io were 

 noticed flying around and settling on various clumps of Michaelmas 

 daisy in the gardens. On the 11th three C. edusa were seen at 

 Tawstock, near Barnstaple, and several Pararge egeria in the lanes. 

 Sugar was tried that evening, but was only visited by one Phlogo- 

 pliora metic^dosa, and one Amathes instacina. On the 12th a bright 

 male ediisa was captured in the garden, and great numbers of 

 P. gamma were flying at dusk among flowers of Antirrhinum. On 

 the 17th several Pieris brassica and P. rapce were seen at Ilfracombe. 

 Sugar was tried again on the night of the 19th, and single specimens 

 of Agrotis saucia, Lithophane socia, and Graptolitha ornithopus were 

 taken, and several Agrotis suffusa and P. meticulosa were seen. On 

 the 25th my wife caught a light-coloured edusa in her hand in a road 

 close to the house. It was very feeble and worn, so she let it go. It 

 was probably a female. There has been a lot of rain and gales of 

 wind lately and the nights have been too cold for sugar or ivy. If 

 the weather had been brighter and warmer in September and during 

 this month, I believe it would have been a record year for edicsa in 

 this neighbourhood. — Gervase F. Mathew ; Instow, North Devon, 

 October 30th, 1912. 



Colias edusa, Pyrameis atalanta, and P. cardui in Wilts. — 

 I saw one C. edusa male on Sept. 7th, the first I have seen during 

 the eleven years I have been here. The larvte of Pyrameis atalanta 

 have been abundant, and with them I found two larviB of P. cardui, 

 also feeding on nettle. I did not recognize that the two were not 

 P. atalanta larvae until they changed to chrysalids. All the larvaj 

 were taken in August and September, P. atalanta emerging from 

 August 30th to October 18th ; the first P. cardui on August 31st, 

 and the other on October 7th. — (Eev.) C. A. Sladen ; Alton Barnes 

 Eectory, Pewsey, Wilts, November 1st, 1912. 



Pyrameis atalanta. — On June 19th I found a larva of the above 

 nearly full grown ; it pupated on June 24th and the butterfly emerged 

 on July 10th. One full-fed larva obtained on September 8th pupated 

 on September 12th, and the imago emerged October 2nd. — W. E. 

 Butler. 



Agrotis hyperborea (alpina), &c., in Perthshire. — On August 

 5th I took a worn female specimen of Agrotis hyperborea at rest on 

 cro wherry on a spur of Schiehallion. The capture of the imago 

 seems to be somewhat unusual, but it was still more unusual to find 

 a few fresh females of Argynnis aglaia on the wing within two or 



