278 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Lamertuion, Vice-president de la Soc. Ent. Namuroise, Namur. 
September 4th, 1900. [It would be most interesting if Mr. Lambillion 
could be induced to collect exact data as to the first appearances, last 
appearances, breaks in the continuity of appearance, and abundance (or 
the reverse) of these species, in many localities in different parts of 
Belgium, for a few years.—Ep.| 
During August Colias edusa has been very abundant in Guernsey, 
Alderney and Sark, and several specimens of the var. helice have been 
captured. A few specimens of C. hyale have also been taken, but they 
have been far less common than CU. edusa.—W. A. Lurr, Mount 
Pleasant, Burnt Lane, Guernsey. September 5th, 1900. 
It is certainly a Colias year locally, if not generally. My first 
sight of a specimen for eight years was at Deal, on August 3rd, when 
during the only gleam of sunshine I had on a three days’ visit I 
netted two fine C. hyale on the Kingsdown cliffs. The following day 
I went to Littlehampton, but wet weather continuing until the 12th I 
did no day collecting. On that day, however, I set out on my bicycle 
for a Colias hunt, and came across them close to Poling Woods, in a 
stubble field, with a thick undergrowth. That morning I netted eleven 
C. hyale and six C. edusa, a proportion between the species which held 
good in this particular field during the next week. None were seen 
elsewhere on that day, but during the following week both species 
occurred sparingly throughout the neighbourhood, and in about equal 
quantities, but whilst in my original stubble field they daily increased 
in numbers, C. hyale continued to outnumber C. edusa by about two to 
one. Many male C. edusa were getting worn by the 20th, when I returned 
home, but nearly every C. hyale was equal to bred. The latter species 
was not nearly so strong on the wing as C. edusa, and, consequently, 
much easier to catch, and it also ceased flight for the day muchearler. I 
rarely saw it moving after 3.80p.m. or3.45 p.m., when itcould be walked 
up in some numbers, but C. edusa flew freely for another hour, getting 
wilder in its flight as the day progressed. Only eleven female C. edusa 
occurred in all (including one var. helice), six of them on the last day, 
but C. hyale females were common, including a dozen or more fine, 
white specimens, and as many intermediate forms. A number of 
specimens found at rest in the late afternoon in the stubble field were 
invariably settled down on the stubble, and not on the clover, in which 
position they were almost perfectly concealed unless searched for very 
closely, the colour of the undersides exactly harmonising with the 
straw. On my journey up to town, although fine enough, I could not 
detect a single specimen on the London side of Arundel, and hearing 
from a friend this morning that he cannot find either species at 
Mundesley, on the Norfolk coast, I should judge that the distribution 
is not nearly so general as in 1892. I have seen no sign of a specimen 
yet near London.—Rwussrtt EH. Jamus, 18, Onslow Gardens, Highgate. 
September 5th, 1900. 
A male Colias hyale was observed on Reigate Heath, August 8th, 1900, 
the only one seen, although I have not hunted for them. Two males 
of C. edusa were seen between Dorking and Guildford, August 11th, 
1900, and a female on Mickleham Down, August 18th, 1900. This 
? laid ova, larve from which are now feeding. On August 19th 
I found an egg at Reigate, then in the scarlet stage, which hatched 
August 23rd, 1900; two imagines, sex unknown, were seen on the 
