61 L March, 



Colias JEdusa hred in February. — It may be of some slight interest to record 

 that I bred G. JEdusa on February Ist. On September 16th I obtained about sixty 

 ova ; the young larvae duly emerged, but as the frosty nights came on they died ofE, 

 although kept in a window facing the south and a fire occasionally in the room ; 

 three, however, struggled on and became pupse, the first on November 26th, the other 

 two later on, and ultimately the last two damped off.— G-. C. Bignbil, Stonehouse, 

 Plymouth : February 2nd, 1893. 



Aporia cratcegi in East Kent. — With reference to recent discussions as to the 

 supposed extermination of this fine butterfly in Great Britain, it may be of interest 

 to record the capture of a specimen in East Kent on the 28th of last June. The 

 exact locality was described to me by the captor, who showed me the insect ; but I 

 suppress this in the interests of the butterfly. — Theodoee Wood, Baldock, Herts. : 

 February 1th, 1893. 



Hhodocera Cleopatra, Linn., in January. — It can hardly fail to be of interest 

 to record that my cousin, Miss B. C. Casey, met with a $ example of R. Cleopatra 

 yesterday afternoon on Mont Yinaigrier, near Nice. I should hardly have believed 

 the possibility of such an occurrence had I not myself been a witness, as the species 

 is only stated as being on the wing from February onwards. The specimen was very 

 fresh, and as it was found immediately beneath its food-plant (Rhamnus),! concluded 

 that it had just emerged from the pupa. The present seems a forward season on the 

 Eiviera, and some of the spring plants, as Biscutella didyma for instance, have been 

 in full flower ever since the 22nd inst. in sheltered situations.— Feank Beomilow, 

 Nice, France : January dOth, 1898. 



[We regard this a parallel case to that of Itk. rhamni, hibernated specimens of 

 which have occasionally been seen on the wing in England in January. — Eds.]. 



Re-occurrence in Britain of Oatocala electa, Bkh. — No ! In stating in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 2nd series, vol. iii, p. 308, that among the Macro-Lepidoptera that fell to my 

 share last season the greatest prize was Micra parva, I was wrong, decidedly wrong, 

 and I am delighted to acknowledge the mistake, and to make amends by now 

 recording the occurrence of a still more highly-prized treasure in the shape of 

 Catocala electa, of which I was fortunate enough to take a specimen here on Septem- 

 ber 12th of last year. Until that date, the only example ever previously captured 

 in Britain was secured at sugar, near Brighton, by Mr. A. C. Vine, on September 

 24th, 1875, as recorded in " The Entomologist," vol. viii, pp. 282 — 3. 



As the circumstances under which the insect was found were rather peculiar, it 

 may be interesting to relate them. When our wall fruit is due, and especially when 

 our peaches — all grown out of doors, and entirely without protection of any sort, 

 except the bare walls against which the trees are trained — are ripe, we always have 

 two or three simple but most effective " traps " for flies and wasps placed near the 

 trees : each one consists of two square " hand-lights," one placed on the top of the 

 other, the crevices along the " line of contact " being filled up with tow. Each 

 corner of the lower " light " is raised on a small inverted flower-pot, so that it stands 

 about five inches off the ground ; a small pane of glass is removed from the top of 



