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Colias Edusa in 1898. — Where is C. Ediisa this year ? The usual records are 

 silent. No doubt it has occurred somewhere in England, but apparently nowhere 

 in sufficient quantity to attract attention, and yet the weather has been such as it 

 usually delights in. A correspondent writing from the coast of East Devon where 

 the insect is often abundant, says: — "I have not seen Colias JSdusa this year. I 

 attribute its absence to the prevalence of winds adverse to immigration from the 

 Continent. The wind was mostly between N.N.W. and N.E., and hardly ever 

 S.E. or S." A change has come over British entomologists. Thirty years ago the 

 " blown over " theory was commonly scouted, and theories were rife to account for 

 the erratic appearance of this insect, and others here ; the one probably most in 

 favour being continuance in the egg or pupal stage more than one season. " Blown 

 over " had a disagreeable sound, and there were probably some who would have 

 refused to place the specimens in their collections if they carried with them the 

 slightest suspicion of being voluntary or involuntary immigrants. — Eds. 



Aoronyota alni at Gloucester. — On Monday, August 15th, I found a full-fed 

 larva of this species in a garden close to Grlouccster ; it was provided with a bit of 

 hollow stick, and spun up in it the same night. — W. W. Fowler : Aug. ^%th, 1898. 



Singular habit in BrepJios parthenias — In March of this year, my son, who had 

 been out in the early morning in Richmond Park in search of Brephos parthenias, 

 came to me with what I thought at the time sounded very much like a " yarn." He 

 had seen the Brephos (more than one of them) sitting on the sandy margin of a 

 rivulet which runs through the Park at this point, and they were imbibing the 

 moisture, holding their wings in an upright position over the back " just like a 

 butterfly." As this habit of this species had never in my recollection been recorded, 

 I visited the Park a day or two later about 11 a.m., and, overlooking the little brook, 

 where my boy had seen the moths, I tried the edge of the pond near the Isabella 

 Plantation and there, on the moist earth at the edge of the water, a couple of B. 

 parthenias were enjoying themselves exactly as described, sitting upon the wet sand, 

 wings erected and lowered at intervals, in the bright sunshine, precisely as butterflies 

 are in the habit of doing when imbibing moisture. — Alpeed Eicklin, Norbiton : 

 August 15th, 1898. 



Occurrence of Lozopera Beatricella, Wlsm., in Kent. — Having in mind Lord 

 Walsingham's recent discoveries in the genus Lozopera {Conchylis, Tr. part.), it was 

 with no little satisfaction that I heard, some weeks ago from Mr. W. Purdey, of 

 Eolkestone, that he had found in that neighbourhood a number of moths belonging 

 to this genus, which he could not reconcile with any species known to him. These 

 he was kind enough to send to me for examination, when it was at once obvious that 

 he had come upon a species quite strange to me, but which, after careful comparison 

 with his lordship's descriptions, I found to be referable, without doubt, to his 

 Lozopera Beatricella, reared seventeen or eighteen years ago in Suffolk by the Hon. 

 Mrs. Carpenter. The occurrence of this interesting species on the south coast is 

 extremely gratifying, and that this should take place in a locality which has been, 

 for the past thirty years, so incessantly worked as Eolkestone, is not a little 

 remarkable. 



