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Colias edusa, Fb., so common last year, has been noted but 

 very sparingly during the past autumn, the only records of its 

 occurrence, so far as I am able to ascertain, being some ten 

 specimens at St. Leonards ; three (including one var. helice, 

 Hb.) at Deal ; two at Eastbourne ; and one each at Chicester, 

 Folkestone, Maldon, Swansea, and Christchurch, in all some 

 twenty examples. And one specimen of Vanessa antiopa, L. 

 was taken by Mr. W. H. Pemberton-Barnes, in his greenhouse 

 at Havering-atte-Bower, Essex (" Entom." xix. 248). 



But perhaps the most interesting of the recent additions to 

 the British Butterflies (if we except Lyccena argiades, Pall., 

 introduced to our lists last year, but which has this year been 

 conspicuous by its absence) is Anosia plexippiis, L. From an 

 exhaustive paper on this species by Mn- James J. Walker, R.N., 

 F.E.S., published in the "Ent. Mo. Mag." xxii. 217, we learn, 

 that starting from its American home, it rapidly colonized 

 the numerous groups of South Pacific Islands, and eventually 

 established itself in Australia ; but its Eastern march appears 

 to have been more difficult to accomplish, the great expanse 

 of ocean (over 2,000 miles) between the American Continent, 

 and the first resting-place in our direction, may have offered 

 obstacles requiring unusually favourable surroundings to 

 overcome them. In due time, however, it reached our shores, 

 and a specimen was taken at Neath, in South Wales, by Mr. 

 J. T. D. Llewelyn on 30th September, 1876, just ten years 

 ago (" Ent. Mo. Mag." xiii. 107), and single examples have been 

 recorded from time to time up to last year, when fully a 

 dozen were accounted for, quite half of them from Cornwall. 

 We do not, however, appear to have any mention of its oc- 

 currence on the Continent of Europe until the present year ; 

 it is therefore interesting to note its capture at Gibraltar ("Ent. 

 Mo. Mag." xxiii. 162), and a specimen is also recorded from 

 Guernsey (" Entom." xix. 278), facts pointing strongly to a 

 continued eastward range and probable permanent settlement 

 within our coasts. The number of records of its capture in 

 this country during the past summer show that it probably 

 existed in some numbers, its range apparently being from 



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