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at Woodford, Essex, recorded by Mr. J. A. Simes. In the London 

 district it was very common in the second brood, equally, if not 

 more so than the first brood, which is quite an exception to what 

 we generally experience. Resultant larvae from the summer brood 

 were exceedingly abundant, and were nearly all full fed, or in pupa, 

 before the middle of September. E uchlo'e cardamines was abundant; 

 Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor records it as early as April 24th (" Ent. 

 Rec, xxiii., p. 291), and there were plenty of specimens observed 

 at Beaconsfield on the occasion of the Society's field meeting 

 on May 27th, The species was certainly more abundant than 

 for some years past, but the hot weather played no part in 

 accounting for its abundance, for it began to emerge at the 

 commencement of the fine spell, and as usual* there was no second 

 brood. Cauwnyiitplui paiiipJiilus was abundant during the summer, 

 after several years when it had been conspicuously less common than 

 usual. The abundance of a species whose larva is a grass feeder, 

 is the more remarkable when one remembers how universally grass 

 suffered during the long spells of drought. With the two species 

 of Atjriaildi, I this year had very little experience, but they both 

 seem to have been more abundant in their own special localities 

 than usual. Afpiades thetis (hellargm) Mr. Grosvenor records as 

 scarce in the first brood, and the second emergence more abundant, 

 and first noted on August 7th. This is a very early date, and 

 accounts for the fact that by September 5th, when I visited one of 

 its Surrey localities, I could only find two worn females. On such 

 a date (September 5th) in most years the species is to be taken 

 freshly emerged. I note however that Tutt has a date of July 

 20th, 1893, when the second brood was found at Sandown by Mr. 

 Prout, and abundantly in several other localities as early as mid- July. 

 Ai/riadcs coridun seems to have been abundant in its own localities, 

 but it would be difficult to say if it was commoner than usual, as 

 locally it is usually to be taken in large numbers. Polyoiinuatiis 

 teams was abundant, and Mr. Grosvenor notes that the third brood 

 M^as particularly abundant in the Reigate district and very variable. 

 But the Lycyenid that undoubtedly responded in the greatest degree 

 to the exceptional conditions was Rnmicia jddaas. Over a large 

 part of England it has been recorded as having been very abundant, 

 more particularly so in the autumn. In many places, where it 

 had scarcely been noticed, it suddenly multiplied enormously, and 



* Barrett, in " Brit. Lep.," vol. i., p. 29, records a second emergence in 1886, 

 near Maidenhead. 



