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spring but one or two hybernated specimens were to be seen. On June 

 29th I took the first freshly emerged insects, two females and six males 

 (one with the wings not yet fully expanded) ; after that they were by no 

 means scarce up to the first week in August, when they seemed to vanish 

 for a time, but within the last fortnight or so are again putting in an 

 app,earance iu fine condition. No C. hycde have been seen here this year. 

 — Spotswood Graves ; 29, Victoria Street, Tenby, Sept. 17th. 



I noticed four specimens of C. edusa near the sea coast on Aug. 29th 

 last. — T. B. Jefferys; Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. 



C. edusa, chiefly males, was fairly abundant during September at 

 Tenby. I did not take the var. helice, but was told that two or three had 

 been taken. — Edgar J. Meyrdle ; Durham. 



Sussex. — Two examples of C. hyale captured and one missed on Aug. 

 4th, and one taken on Aug. 16tb. No C. edusa observed up to last date 

 [ante, p. 276). 



On Sept.: 5th I took a male C. edusa on the downs near Brighton, and 

 on the 9th saw two more at Falmer, on the Lewes road. — H. F. Hunt; 

 14, Thistlewaite Road, Clapton, N.E., Sept. 11, 1893. 



On the 5th of this month, when I was on the downs near Brighton, a 

 butterfly flew over my head as I was approaching the top of a hill ; on 

 looking back I saw it was C. edma and chased it, but without success. 

 When sitting in Steyne Gardens, Brighton, on the 13th, I was told by a 

 friend that a yellow butterfly had just settled on a flower-bed opposite ; I 

 watched the spot, and soon a C. edusa rose and continued flying about the 

 geraniums and lobelias. I went quite close to it, but did not attempt to 

 catch it; it was a male. — D. P. Turner; 14, Havelock Road, Tonbridge, 

 Sept. 15, 1893. 



I saw a fine specimen of C. edusa on Beechy Head, Aug. 29th last, but 

 it flew over the cliff before I could catch it. — H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn ; 

 Bidborough, near Tunbridge Wells, Sept. 15, 1893. 



I saw a male specimen of G. edusa on Aug. 30th, the first I have seen 

 this summer; yet last year, this time, they were swarming here. — L. S. 

 Giles; 72, North Street, Chichester, Sept. 2, 1893. 



Random Notes. — Hesperia actcBon was, I suppose, like everything 

 else, a month earlier than usual, for when I got to Weymouth, at the end 

 of July, there were only a few worn males to be seen. I left at the end of 

 August. I took nothing worth mentioning at Weymouth, except a beautiful 

 form of Bryophila glandifera, of a uniform olive-green tint on the fore 

 wings, markings faintly indicated by white lines, with hardly a trace of 

 black; hind wings normal. But as I took this in a railway carriage, while 

 journeying between Upwey and Weymouth, the locality is a little uncertain. 

 Is it possible that Cerura furcula is double-brooded? Newman gives July 

 for the larva ; Staintou gives September ; whilst last year a larva in process 

 of moulting for the first time was sent me by Miss Chasoner from the New 

 Forest in October, which pupated late in November, and, kept indoors, pro' 

 duced the moth on May 22nd ; and this year a nearly full-grown larva 

 arrived from the same place on October 3rd. The season here, Hartley 

 Wintney, has been very poor, so far as sugaring goes. I got two Dipterygia 

 pinastri on May 22nd and 24th, but no more afterwards, though this is a 

 common insect with us ; and one black Apamea oculea. Usually, however, 

 there was nothing on the trees at all. By day, I can never do much; but 

 I noted that Vanessa polychloros began to emerge on June 18th> and there- 



