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cratagi from the continent, and had allowed numbers of them to escape, but he had 

 never found them breed there until last year, though he had regularly looked for 

 them. Last year, however, he took a number of the butterflies in a field which he 

 pointed out to me, close to where their progenitors had been turned out. This year, 

 I believe, he had not found them up to June 10th ; but perhaps it is too early for 

 them, notwithstanding the forwardness of the season. — F. Mbeeifield, Brighton : 

 June, 1893. 



[This information has an important bearing as regards some remarks by me in 

 our last No. — E. McLachlan]. 



Marly appearance of Satyrus Janira and Hesperia Actceon. — On May 26th I 

 went down to the Burning Cliff and saw both S. Janira and H. Actceon on the 

 wing. L. sinapis and E. glyphica appeared here on May 2nd. — C. W. Dale, 

 G-lanvilles Wootton : June ^th, 1893. 



Note on Hesperia Actceon. — This little butterfly is more widely spread on the 

 Dorset coast than Mr. McLachlan' imagines. I have taken it in six different 

 localities, from Punfield Cove, near Swanage, to Preston Coast Guard Station, two 

 miles from Weymouth. It also occurs on the range of hills running through Pur- 

 beck, and on the Eidgeway Hill near Upwey. It has also been recorded as being 

 taken near Lyme Regis, Sidmouth, Torquay, and Truro. The earliest and latest 

 dates of its appearance are May 26th, 1893, and September 15th, 1890. As long as 

 collectors confine themselves to the second brood, I do not think it will become 

 extinct. — Id. 



Leucophasia sinapis near Reading. — This sunny spring has been very favourable 

 for Leucophasia sinapis ; they were in great force here. Morning up till about 10.30 

 or so, and afternoon when the sun begins to lose power, is the time tliey fly ; in the 

 hottest part of the day they retire to the thicket to rest or take a nap. Slowly and 

 lazily they thread their way, low down, in the thickest part of the wood where one 

 could hardly walk, and where it is impossible to use the net, but continually popping 

 out and flying along the rides, or stopping to hang on to the flowers of Orohus 

 tuherosus, where they are the easiest things imaginable to catch. Look up and 

 down a ride in the morning they are always in view — half a dozen in the net at a 

 time with ease ; a hundred might soon be taken. Pretty little things they are, and 

 vary nicely — black tips, grey tips more or less, and sometimes altogether white. 

 Large thickly wooded tracts and dense undergrowth seem to afford this weakly 

 species a necessary protection ; it is here only they are to be found in abundance. — 

 W. Holland, Southampton Street, Reading : June, 1893. 



Lepidoptera in South Wales. — Early in May I was down at Swansea, and insects 

 were early there as here at home. Melitcea Artemis was unusually abundant, up 

 hill and down, parks, meadows, commons, lanes, and sandhills — Artemis was every- 

 where ; a larger form than those from Reading, with dark yellowish interspaces 

 where ours are almost white. One afternoon I paid a visit to the extensive sandhills 

 above Swansea to look up larvae of Leucania littoralis. Aspilates citraria was 

 plentiful here, starting freely from the hummocks and the dwarf sallow in the 



