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notice. I think one of the most exceptional cases is that of a second 

 emergence of A. paphia which I have succeeded in rearing this autumn. 

 This species was fully a month earlier on the wing this year in the New 

 Forest, and I obtained a number of ova from the var. valezina which were 

 deposited during the last week of June ; they hatched about the end of the 

 first week in July ; the majority of the larvae entered into hybernation imme- 

 diately after their exit from the egg, which is the usual habit of the species. 

 Upon examining the plants of Viola canina in the middle of August, I was 

 very surprised to find four paphia larvae in three different stages, viz., after 

 the second, third and fourth moults ; and on the 27th Aug. I found another 

 in the third moult. The first one pupated on the 1st September, and 

 produced a fine female on the 18th Sept.; the last of the five pupated on 

 the 13th Sept., producing a male on the 15th of this month, the other three 

 emerging as follows: a male 21st Sept., another male on the 24th, and a 

 rich specimen of the var. valezina on the 8th October. On Sept. 20th 

 I noticed two more larvae feeding, which were then after their second moult 

 and are now fully grown.— F. W. Frohawk ; Balham, S.W., Oct. 18. 



NocTUiB AND Flowering Grass. — With reference to Mr. Gr. 0. Day's 

 note (Entom. 229), I can endorse his remarks as to the remarkable 

 attractiveness to insects of the species of grass referred to. In the past 

 two seasons, on Wimbledon Common, I have regularly worked this grass 

 while it is in flower, which is during the latter part of August and the 

 whole of September, and have always found it more profitable than sugar. 

 I do not think the attractive power is due to honeydew ; insects are 

 only attracted to it during the period of inflorescence, and cease coming 

 directly that is over. They are quite as stupified as at the sallow or ivy 

 blossoms. The genus Xanthia seems especially fond of it ; I have some- 

 times seen hundreds oi fulvago and flavago, and have also taken, more or 

 less commonly, Tapinostola fulva, Hydrcecia micacea, Noctua glareosa, the 

 genus Anchocelis, and most of the usual autumnal Noctuae and some 

 Geometrae. The grass is also extremely attractive to gnats ; I have 

 frequently seen dozens on every flowering spike. — E. H. Taylor; 52, 

 Mimosa Street, Fulham, Oct. 18, 1892. 



Variety of Poltommatus phlceas. — At Eastbourne, during the third 

 week in September, I captured a variety of this butterfly, which has the 

 left fore wing almost quite white. — W. Harcourt Bath; 195, Ladywood 

 Road, Birmingham. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPOETS. 



CoLiAS IN Britain, 1893 : — 



Berkshire. — One C. hyale, May 7th {a7ite, p. 200). 



Camhridgeshire. — One example of G. edusa, Aug. 18th {a)ite, p. 276). 



My friend, Mr. J. English, captured a female specimen of C. hyale on 

 August 13th, which deposited a number of ova, but these proved infertile. 

 I saw a male 0. edusa on September 3rd, but was unable to capture it. — 

 H. Fleet ; 15, Halifax Road, Cambridge, Sept. 14, 1893. 



Cornwall. — One example of G. edusa seen on April 5th, and another on 

 8th of the same month [ante, p. 162). 



About 4.30 p.m. on Sept. 1st I took three males of G. edusa, in fresh 

 condition, at rest on a hedge near Penzance. The day was beautifully 



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