1384 The Zoologist — September, 1868. 



Hatch Park, August 19, 1868. [Colias Helice of Haworth is a variety of the female 

 of C. Edusa. — Edward Newman.'] 



Colias Edusa, var. Helice, near Ipswich. — Seeing the following letter in the 

 ' Ipswich Journal' I inclose a copy of it, thinking the readers of the 'Zoologist' may 

 like to see it: — 



"A Rake Butterfly. — Some of your entomological readers may be glad to know 

 that a butterfly, very rare in these parts, and I believe never found here except in un- 

 usually hot seasons, may now be commonly seen in certain localities, viz. Colias Helice, 

 one of the Clouded Yellows. I have caught ten specimens in Melton, and on Friday 

 last saw several on Aldebuigh Common. Mr. Hele has also caught them at Aldeburgb, 

 and my sister at Westleton. Every one I have seen, who has noticed these insects, 

 lias described them as Colias Hyale, which I take to be quite a separate species; and 

 though C. Helice is thought by many entomologists to be only a variety of C. Edusa, 

 surely being now found in such plenty proves it to be, as a few suppose, distinct. — 

 Fredk. Spalding; Woodlridge, August 20, 1868." 



Mr. Spalding does not say he has taken C. Edusa this year, so I conclude he has not 

 done so. Thus, supposing the insects he lias taken to be a variety of C. Edusa, I think 

 it would be almost impossible to take them in such numbers. Of course varieties are 

 rarer than the others. Colias Edusa was pretty common here last year; and I took 

 several, but only 6aw one variety taken. — Edward F. Bisshopp; 36, High Street, 

 Ipswich, August 25, 1868. 



[I should have liked more information on this subject, particularly as to the 

 question raised by Mr. Bisshopp, whether Mr. Spalding has taken Colias Edusa? The 

 paragraph quoted does not imply that Helice and Edusa were on the wing together; 

 and it would be a very remarkable thing if this were not the case. I have not heard 

 of there ever having been seen anything like a company of Helice, observed apart from 

 Edusa. 1 raimot suppose it a species, since it has no male, and has, moreover, been 

 so frequently taken in coitu with male Edusa. — Edward Newman."] 



Vanessa Antiopa at Chatteris. — My son caught, on the 6th of August, a very fine 

 specimen of the Cambcrwell Beauty (Vanessa Antiopa) : it was hovering over a flower- 

 bed in the garden, and was taken in perfect conditiou. Am I right in assuming that 

 this beautiful butterfly has not been seen in England for many years? Is it possible 

 that the recent great and continuous heat has induced some of these insects to cross 

 the Channel, and take up their abode here? This idea is rather confirmed by the fact 

 that several fine specimens of the Pale Clouded Yellow (Colias Hyale) have been taken 

 here within the last week; this latter butterfly being also one very rarely seen on the 

 wing in this country. — John Fryer ; Manor House, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. [Many 

 specimens of Vanessa Antiopa have been taken in England within the last teu years, 

 but always singly, and generally inland: there are no attendant circumstances that 

 would at all justify the conclusion that they come from over sea, although there is 

 nothing in the distance between the Kentish and the French coast that would render 

 the transit difficult.— Ed.]— From the ' Field.' 



Deilephila Livornica at Truro.— On the 2nd of August I had the good luck to 

 take a specimen of Deilephila Livornica, in a garden near here. As it is one of the 

 rarest of our British moths, it may be interesting to your entomological readers to hear 

 of its capture. — Id. 



