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on ragwort at the commencement of September. They appeared 

 to be confined to a patch of about five or six acres, and, though we 

 searched the surrounding moorland carefully, we found none. This 

 is singular, as the surrounding country does not vary in character, 

 nor is the ragwort less plentiful. I had the opportunity of observing 

 an ichneumon at work among the larvae. She settled on the same 

 leaf as her victim and alongside it ; then her ovipositor suddenly 

 flashed out twice. The larva appeared quite unconscious of the attack. 

 One other capture is, I think, worth recording. Last winter I dug 

 a pupa of Odontosia carmelita in a wood about three miles from 

 Carlisle from which a perfect female emerged in May. The only 

 other county record that I am acquainted with is the occasional 

 appearance of this species at Keswick, some thirty miles away. — 

 Harold D. Ford ; Thursby Vicarage, Carlisle. 



Comas croceus, etc., in Derbyshire. — On October 30th, 192.1, 

 I chased a male croceus for some distance, but failed to capture it. 

 On August 6th, 1922, I captured a female specimen evidently freshly 

 emerged, and saw a second on August 31st on the Duke of Devon- 

 shire's land at Hardwick Park. At Eidgeway, near Sheffield, 1 saw 

 a specimen on August 13th, and have also seen odd specimens in 

 other areas as follows : Croxteth Park, Liverpool, May 25th ; and in 

 a hay-field a few miles north of Worcester on August 1st. 



Preferring to the recent notes in the Entomologist on possible 

 hybridisation in nature, it may be of interest to note that on August 

 26th I found a female Pieris brassicae in cop. with a male P. rapae. 

 These I brought home in a tobacco box in which they became 

 separated. I kept them in a gauze cage over a growing cabbage 

 plant, but they did not repeat the operation, neither did the female 

 lay any eggs prior to her accidental release. — A. W. Richards ; 

 High Street, Tibshelf, Derbyshire. 



Colias croceus in Northumberland. — To the references to the 

 occurrences of the clouded yellow in southern England this season, 

 which have appeared in the Entomologist, it may be worth while to 

 add that one was seen at Nunwick, Northumberland, on August 

 25th. — George Bolam; Alston. 



Colias croceus in Lancashire and Westmorland. — Though 

 this species occurs in this district only at rare intervals, it has spread 

 this season as far north as Witherslack (Westmorland). I received 

 on September 6th a $ which was taken there two or three days 

 before. The specimen was in such fresh condition as to lead me to 

 believe it had emerged in the locality, and the following day (Sep- 

 tember 7th) I visited the stretch of shore between Lytham and 

 St. Anne's (Lanes) in t,he hope of seeing something of the species, 

 and was rewarded by the capture of a fine $ , the only one seen. — 

 T. M. Blackman ; 27, Black Bull Lane, Eulwood, Preston. 



Colias croceus in Hunts. — I saw a male of this species flying 

 high in Brampton Park on May 31st last, and several specimens 

 were noted by other observers in the immediate neighbourhood. It 

 was, therefore, no surprise to me to catch a -freshly-emerged specimen 

 at Spaldwick on August 5th. Since then I have captured nine 

 others, including three worn males yesterday, in the same village 



