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visiting. Aglais urtica has been quite a rarity. Pieris brassica was 

 at no time sufficiently common to cause any serious anxiety as to our 

 cabbages, and P. rapa, although for a week or so towards the end of 

 July looking like becoming too numerous, soon died down, and had 

 disappeared altogether by October 10th. Pararge megara has 

 thrown three fairly well-defined broods, the first appearing on 

 May 2nd and continuing throughout that month. The second and 

 most numerous was out from July 22nd until about August 20th, and 

 a small third brood from September 29th to October 7th, which was 

 the last date on which the species was noted. Ghryosphanus phlceus 

 has produced certainly three and possibly four broods during the 

 season. From May 1st to 16th it was frequently met with; then 

 came a gap until July 3rd, from which date to the end of the month 

 it was common. A few were seen about the middle of August, but 

 whether stragglers from the earlier brood or a small third one it is 

 difficult to say, but from September 29th to October 11th it was 

 again common. Three or four species should, however, be mentioned 

 on account of their great abundance. Eound about the end of May 

 and first week or so in June Cupido minimus occurred in greater 

 numbers and over a wider area than I have before met with that 

 species, even invading the Parades and our gardens. In the middle 

 of July Epinephele jurtina rose from the long grass of the hollows of 

 the Downs in numbers in the evening at every step as one walked 

 through it, and at the same time practically every knapweed head was 

 seething with Zygcsna filipendulce, a single head frequently having 

 half a dozen individuals upon it. During the latter half of October 

 Plusia gamma, which species by the way had been fairly common in 

 June, suddenly became very abundant about the middle of October, 

 swarming about the red valerian blossoms in vast numbers both by 

 day and night, and so continued until the end of the month. It was 

 last seen out of doors on November 7th, but an individual insisted 

 upon buzzing about the house as soon as the lights were turned on 

 until the evening of the 10th. — Bobert Adkin ; Eastbourne, December, 

 1921. 



COLIAS HYALE IN KENT AND C. EDUSA IN DORSET. — C. hyaU Was 



common this year in the Ashford district, notably more so than 

 at Folkestone. The insect favoured lucerne fields in preference to 

 clover, especially in spots where it was protected from a rather cold 

 south-east wind which was blowing during the month of August. 

 My first specimens were taken on July 31st, and the last on August 

 26th. White females were fairly common, especially towards the end 

 of August. G. edusa was conspicuous for its absence. The latter, 

 however, was fairly abundant at Weymouth during the first fortnight 

 in October. I believed many of these to have belonged to a second 

 brood. — E. Scott, M.B. ; Hayesbank, Ashford, Kent. 



Pyrameis cardui in North Lancashire and Westmorland. 



The following occurrences of Pyrameis cardui may possibly be worth 

 recording as I have not seen the species before in the following 

 localities : High Oarley, near Ulverston, Lancashire — a female — Sep- 

 tember 19th, 1921. Another specimen at Elswick, in the Fylde, 

 September, 1921. Two specimens in a garden at Bowness-on- 



