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New Name for a Fossil Tipulid Fly.— By an unfortunate over- 

 sight I have given the name Dicranomyia excavata to a Gurnet Bay 

 fossil in 'Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,' June, 1921, p. 458, when the same 

 name had been applied to a different species in 'Entomologist,' May, 

 1921. The later (June), D. excavata, may be renamed D. exhumata, 

 n.n. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Pieris msm, L., in December.— My daughter, Miss G. M. 

 Haines, brought in, yesterday afternoon, a specimen of Pieris 

 rapa, L., which she found settled on a blade of grass in this village. 

 The specimen is a very small male and appears newly emerged. It 

 is somewhat more strongly marked than the paler specimens of the 

 usual spring brood, but much more lightly than normal summer 

 specimens. The apical blotch of the fore wings is quite distinct, but 

 palish, as in the rather faint central spot. A very pale, rather linear 

 suffusion is present before the apes on the costal border of the hind 

 wings. The weather is still very mild, and the insect might represent, 

 after such a phenomenal season, a fourth brood of the species ! — 

 F. H. Haines ; Brookside, Winfrith, Dorset, December 9th, 1921. 



COLIAS EDUSA AND SOME OTHER SPECIES AT EASTBOURNE. — All 



through the past glorious summer, with its brilliant sunshine and 

 undue share of easterly and south-easterly gentle breezes, we have been 

 on the look-out for Colias edusa, but it was not until so late a date as 

 October 26th that it came under our notice. On that morning, as I 

 strolled on the Parade between 9 and 10 o'clock, I noticed a yellow 

 butterfly feasting at a blossom of red valerian, and on approaching 

 nearer to it found that it was without doubt edusa, but before I had 

 time to examine it closely it flew up over the top of the bank and 

 away inland, but from the glance that I got I judged it to be some- 

 what faded in colour. An hour or two later on the same morning I 

 came upon another some mile or so further along the coast in one of 

 the hollows under the Downs. This I was able to examine carefully and 

 found it to be a female, without a chip in its wings, but undoubtedly 

 much faded as though it had travelled a considerable distance. 

 Although the weather continued fine for nearly a fortnight longer no 

 other specimens of this species were seen. Other species that 

 frequent our sea-front and its adjacent gardens have been remarkable 

 rather for the late dates to which some of them have lingered with 

 us than for their abundance at any time during the summer. Of the 

 Vanessids, for instance, Pyrameis (Cynthia) cardui was first seen on 

 July 1st, but not again until September 25th, from which date it 

 occurred sparingly until the last week in October, when it became 

 quite numerous for a few days, the last, a single individual, being met 

 with on November 7th. Pyrameis atalanta was noted on July 30th, 

 a single specimen, then from the end of September until October 30th, 

 when it was last seen, was of almost daily occurrence, but only to 

 the extent of some two or three individuals in a day. It appears to 

 have been somewhat commoner a few miles inland, and I may 

 mention in passing that when I was at Latchford, on the Cheshire 

 border, on September 3rd it was there very abundant, a score or 

 more frequently feeding at the blossoms of a Buddleia, of which 

 shrub several fine specimens were growing in the garden that I was 



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