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Paranje iiiet/ccra has also been triple- brooded in some districts and 

 is recorded as such by Mr. J. W. Muirhead from St. Anne's-on-Sea, 

 Lancashire, by Mr. W. H. Harwood at Colchester ("Entom.," xliv., 

 p. 364), and others have observed it without recording it. Mr. South 

 in his "Butterflies of the British Isles" (p. 124), says of this species 

 ^'in favourable years there may be three broods." With regard to 

 the Nymphaline butterflies, second emergences are rare, as with a 

 species that does not appear in the perfect state till summer is well 

 advanced, there is not so much time for larvae to feed up. BrentJtis 

 ■euphrosyne is recorded on August 17th in Surrey, by Mr. H. G. 

 Champion ("Entom.," xliv., p. 405), and Ih-enthis selene is recorded 

 as a second emergence on August 20th near Taunton, by Mr. A. S. 

 Tetley ("Ent. Eec," xxiii., p. 320). Mr. South, writing of B. 

 eii))hrn.<<>/)ie says very rarely a few. specimens have been taken in 

 August ; and of />'. selene that it is occasionally seen in August in 

 this country. It is rather curious, that although B. selene is later 

 in appearance than B. enpJtrosyne, that the former is not nearly 

 so rare in second emergence as the latter. Barrett quotes several 

 cases of B. selene having been taken even commonly as a second 

 ■emergence, but of B. eiiphrosijne he says, " There is a second brood 

 in August on the Continent ; but certainly not except, perhaps, in 

 the most rare and casual manner in this country." He quotes but 

 a single record made by himself at Haslemere on July 15th, 1868. 

 Vanessa to was this year markedly commoner than usual throughout 

 Surrey and the adjacent parts of Sussex, and in Essex Mr. W. H. 

 Harwood found full grown larvae on September 6th (•• Entom.," 

 xliv., p. 321), pointing to an attempt at a second brood. Pi/rameis 

 atalanta is noted by Mr. Grosvenor (" Ent. Eec," xxiii., p. 291), as 

 almost equally common as V. in. But, personally, I did not observe 

 so many specimens as usual. Mr. B. E. Jupp, at Haslemere, did 

 not find it so common as in some years. Two years ago, in that 

 locality, I, in company with Mr. Jupp, found it abundant, settling 

 ■on the Devil's-bit Scabious. I note that the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows 

 records seeing one on May 24th, but not again. But the 

 Nymphaline that responded exceptionally to the abnormal weather 

 was Liinenitis sibijlla. Mr. G. F. Mathew (" Entom.," xliv., p. 

 827) recorded a second brood emergence on September 19th near 

 Dovercourt, Essex, after a first brood that commenced to appear on 

 June 14th. Mr. W. H. Harwood also records ("Entom.," xliv., 

 p. 363), seeing two specimens between Colchester and Ardleigh on 

 September 18th. Yet I have not heard of it, neither has it been 



