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of the wings agreeing with the type ; a common variety has all the wings 

 pale brown, faintly marked with darker brown, the central band merely 

 indicated by the boundary lines. Two females taken this year differ from 

 the one described by Mr. Arkle (Entom. xxv. 146) in the following 

 particulars : — thorax with three longitudinal dark lines ; legs dark brown, 

 dusted with grey ; trochanters and knees grey. H. marginarla, males 

 common on lamps, fences, &c., from February 4th ; two varieties of the 

 female have the lines across both fore and hind wings black, rather wide, 

 the entire space between the second line and the base filled up with black- 

 brown, the space between the second line and the hind margin rather darker 

 than the type ; there are also two wavy dark lines near the hind margin. 

 H. clefoliaria, three males at lamps, January 23rd, and another on the 

 following day; one was the unicolorous variety. Anisopteryx (sscularia, 

 males common on lamps, fences, &c., from February 14th. Cheimatobia 

 brumata, males common on lamps during January and early part of 

 February; last specimen, a male, February 17th.— P. J. Lathy; Bexley 

 Heath, March 26, 1893. 



The following is a list, with dates, of butterflies I have myself seen or 

 caught in this neighbourhood during March : — Vanessa urticce, several on 

 the 8th ; common during the last ten days of the month, but very much 

 worn. Gonopteryx rhamni, one male, in good condition, caught on the 8th. 

 Vanessa io, single specimens on the 23rd and 28th. Pieris rapcB, one male 

 on the 26th ; it had become quite common by the 28th. P. brassiccB, one 

 on the 81st.— D. P. Turnee ; Havelock Road, Tonbridge, April 4, 1893. 



Middlesex. — The effect which the wonderful weather of the past seven 

 weeks or so has had upon the times of emergence of Lepidoptera has been 

 most marked. Taking, for example, Euchloe cardamines, the following are 

 the dates upon which I have first observed this species during the last 

 three years: — 1891, May 31st; 1892, May 7th; 1893, April 19th. 

 Everything seems nearly three weeks earlier than in 1892 ; and fully five 

 weeks earlier than in the wet and backward spring of 1891. I may remark 

 that I observed Nisoniades tages flying in some abundance yesterday ; in 

 other years it is seldom on the wing till the middle of May. — Henry D. 

 Sykes ; The Cedars, Enfield, April 23, 1893. 



Surrey. — On April 4th, my brother's eldest son and myself saw three 

 specimens of Pieris brassier in our garden. — T. H. Briggs ; Surrey 

 House, Leatherhead. 



On March 31st, Breplios parthenias was exceedingly common, flying 

 round the birches in West Wickham Woods ; indeed, over a hundred were 

 seen during my short stay of about two hours. Asphalia flavicornis was 

 also seen on the wing twice, but as we had no nets with us were unable to 

 make any captures. I again visited West Wickham on Easter Monday, and 

 was greatly surprised to find that B. parthenias had very considerably 

 diminished in numbers, for at the close of a whole day's work I was only 

 able to get four fairly good examples of this insect. Amongst other things 

 worth mentioning were two nice Panolis piniperda and two (a male and 

 female) Amphidasys prodromaria. These latter were freshly emerged 

 specimens, and were taken on oaks at about a height of two inches from 

 the ground.— F. J. Robinson, Jun. ; Surrey Cottage, Water Lane, Brixton, 

 S.W., April 6, 1893. 



Tephrosia crepuscularia has turned up in considerable numbers at West 

 Wickham this season. It is to be taken on trunks of both the firs and oaks, 



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