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His other daughter visited Sidmouth, and he spent the last week 

 in August with her. Long walks on the cliffs were taken, as well 

 as in the woods, and in all some twenty species of butterflies were 

 seen, all of the commonest, not one he considered worthy of a pin. 



Everywhere he went the foliage appeared to be uneaten by 

 lepidopterous larvas. In his suburban garden the plants were 

 practically unmolested, in marked contrast with the autumn of 

 1909 ; and he was of opinion that the lack of moisture had killed 

 off the larvffi. 



A general discussion followed, in the course of which Mr. H. R. 

 Sweeting, referring to the failure of Mr. Adkin to find a second 

 emergence of Cii/iitio niuiiinn.H at Eastbourne, said that when he was 

 there in 1906 he took a specimen on August 1st, two on 5th, and 

 another on 6th of that month ; and Captain P. A. Cardew con- 

 sidered the species to be regularlj^ double-brooded at Dover, where 

 he had taken it during August in the years 1906, 1907 (a cold, 

 "wet season when very few only were taken), 1908, and 1909. He 

 also mentioned that he had taken an undoubted second-brood 

 specimen of ('elastrina ar<iioliis on July 3rd last. 



Mr. A. L. Eayward, commenting upon the dryness of the season, 

 said that he had kept two batches of ova of Oriiyia antiqua under 

 observation, the one in his garden at Croydon the other on the 

 road from his house to the railway station. Some ten or twelve 

 onl}' of the eggs hatched, the greater number having apparently 

 been dried up and killed by the excessive heat and dryness of the 

 atmosphere. 



Mr. C. W. Colthrup remarked that Flnsia (jaimna was an absolute 

 pest at Polegate on July 28fch and 31st, and he thought that its 

 scarcity at Eastbourne must have been due to its being over before 

 it was looked for there ; he was aware of the sudden appearance of 

 the species and its equally sudden disappearance. He also 

 mentioned that I'ieris branskre was very abundant at Margate from 

 September 3rd to 11th when it suddenly became quite scarce. 

 Luperina testacea was one of the common species that he had found 

 much less numerous this year than last. In 1910 he would have 

 had no difficulty in taking fifty specimens on any one night during 

 a three weeks stay at Margate, but this year under similar 

 conditions no more than nine specimens were seen on any night 

 and on one occasion only three. His most interesting capture had 

 been Colias Injale : he had heard that freshly emerged specimens 

 had been taken near Margate about the middle of August, and on 

 ills arrival in the district on September 3rd he took four worn 



