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numerous in Kent, and present in Essex, numerous in various places 

 in Suflfolk, Norfolk, and some seen in Lines, and Yorks., and also near 

 Durham ; and if to these a note is added of its observation near Car- 

 narvon, by Mr. Bairstow, and presence in fourteen or more English 

 counties, where it is also recorded either in my own report or in the 

 report of Mr. E. A. Fitch, a very widespread presence will be shown 

 in England. 



In Scotland it was reported to me as early as June near Dumfries, 

 after an absence of sixteen years, but was confined to Clover fields 

 sown out in the previous year ; and its absence also was recorded 

 near Banff by the late Thomas Edward, and at the not distant 

 locality of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, by Mr. Tait, also one of my 

 correspondents ; but one specimen was recorded by him as seen in 

 Orkney, on the 19th of June, in the same year, 1877. 



The geographical area of this appearance of the Clouded Yellow 

 Butterfly in 1877 may therefore be given as extending over a large part 

 of England, from the extreme east and west of the southerly coast, and 

 from Carnarvon at the north-westerly extremity of N. Wales, up to 

 Dumfries in Scotland, and exceptionally to the Orkneys. 



Looking over the records of appearance of the eclusa in the past 

 summer or autumn, as given in our entomological serials, and especi- 

 ally in the numbers of the 'Entomologist' for Sept. and Dec, it will 

 be seen that the area, or range of appearance, in South Britain, has 

 to a great extent been similar to that of 1877 ; but besides being again 

 observed in Carnarvonshire, N. Wales, the records, given with name 

 and locality of observer, show the presence of ediisa to have extended 

 from Monmouthshire, where it was common at Usk at the end of 

 August, as far as Pembrokeshire, appearances being noted in the 

 intervening counties of Brecknock, Glamorgan, and Carmarthen ; and 

 the C. edusa is recorded as having been " literally swarming in Jersey, 

 as likewise in the other Channel Islands." 



At St. Albans I had a note of the C. edusa being seen in the town 

 by Mr. A. Ernest Gibbs, and I also saw a single specimen in my own 

 garden, but much too wild for capture. — (Ed.) 



Further north the area of presence has been extended, by obser- 

 vations of specimens seen at dates ranging from the 19th or 20th of 

 Aug. to the 23rd of Sept., at localities near Perth ; on a hill a few 

 hundred feet above Loch Long, Dumbartonshire ; on a mountain near 

 Row, not very far from Glasgow ; and at New Abbey, Kirkcudbright- 

 shire. 



In Ireland the appearance at Howth, Co. Dublin, is recorded as 

 observed on Aug. 28th.* 



* The above notes are taken from the ' Entomologist ' for Dec, 1892, where the 

 names of observers and localities will be found in full, as also (in the same paper) 

 further records of localities of English observations. — Ed. 



