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shrinking somewhat in size. Four of the larva; were of the normal 

 green type, the fifth of a slightly different hue. They each measured 

 nearly 5" in length. I will report later as to the success I meet with 

 in obtaining the perfect insect, but, having to return to town on 

 August 11th, I am afraid the shaking up which the larvae got during 

 the railway journey home may not have conduced to their successful 

 pupation. Whilst on the subject of A. atropos I may mention that I 

 obtained a perfect insect on November 12th, 1899, from the pupa of 

 the larva taken by me at Broadstairs on August 30th, 1899, and 

 recorded in the Ent. Record, vol. xi., p. 307. I attribute my success 

 in this to having followed the excellent advice given by Mr. Gervase F. 

 Mathew in the Entomologist , vol. xxix., p. 328, as to the best means 

 of successfully forcing the pupa;. — k. Eussell, F.E.S., Catford. 



ACHERONTIA ATROPOS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND 



SOUTHERN Scotland. — We are in receipt, from Mr. Mousley, of a number 

 of cuttings from the Yorkshire Post, relative to the appearance of 

 Acherontia atropos in the northern counties. The following are the 

 localities noted : A larva in early August at Hovingham Hall (Worsley), 

 a full-fed larva at Great Cotes, on August 16th (Quirk), a larva at 

 Boston Spa, on August 19th (Prince), five larv^, one measuring T^inches 

 at Louth (Renton), two larvae at Eipon (Smith), many larvae (fifteen 

 mentioned specifically) at Beverley, variable in colour and markings, 

 those with dark brown stripes on Lycium barharum (Boyes), an imago 

 at Keighley, August 30th (Longton), an imago at Horsforth on August 

 30th (White), in Dumfriesshire (Service). The padding in which these 

 facts are wrapped must be considered as belonging to the first class of 

 newspaper entomology, e.ij., we learn from Mr. Paul that " the paradise 

 of the insect in this country is in the fens of Norfolk and Cambridge, 

 where the relative humidity of the air is always very high, and where 

 solonaceous food is abundantly provided for them on the great breadths 

 of potatoes raised there." Mr. Boyes denies that A. atropos visits bee- 

 hives, states that Hiiber was blind and obtained his information second 

 hand, and suspects that all he Avrote was the result of the fertile 

 imagination of his servant Fran9ois Beurnens. There are many other 

 curious things. — J. W. Tutt. [Records from The Naturalist: August 

 26th, larvae at Netherton (Fawcett), several in the Ulverston district 

 (Petty), two near Ripon (Fawcett), an imago, June 23rd, at South 

 Leverton, Notts., and a larva that pupated July 27th (Thornley). — 

 Ed.] 



POLYGONIA C-ALBUM IN THE LoNDON DISTRICT. On AugUSt 14th, 



while driving through a lane in Charlton, I noticed a newly emerged 

 specimen of Polygonia c-album. It was quietly reposing on a nettle by 

 the hedge side, so dismounting, I examined it for some time. Though 

 Kent is of course a hop county, this is, I believe, the first recorded 

 instance of its presence in this particular part of the county. I could 

 easily have captured it, but, having no net, refrained. — Jos. F. Green, 

 F.E.S., West Lodge, Blackheath. 



CoLiAS EDUSA AND C. HYALE IN 1900. — I saw both C. edusa and (J, 

 hyale on the wing at Margate at the end of July, and took a few 

 recently emerged imagines of each. Subsequently the weather became 

 very dull and wet, and it was not possible to judge whether either of 

 the species occurred in any quantity. — A. Russell, F.E.S., Catford. 



When I saw Colias edusa flying in the garden on August 8th, and 



