24 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN SOMERSET, 1895. — T saw two males flying by the side 

 of the road, while driving from Buckland Dinham to Bath, on Aug. 29th; 

 they appeared to be bright and fresh. — Gervase F. Mathew; Dovercourt, 

 Essex, Nov. 19th, 1895. 



CoLTAS EDUSA &c., IN Jersey, 1895. — DuHng a ten days' stay in 

 Jersey, the end of last September, with a friend, we found Colias edusa 

 simply swarming, so much so that I repeatedly took four in my net at 

 once, with a fair sprinkling of var. helice. We also found Pieris brassica, 

 P. rapcB, Vanessa cardui, V. atalanta, V. urticm^ Pararge egeria, P. niegcera, 

 Polyomniatus phlmas, Ccenonympha pamphilus, and LyccBna alexis, very 

 plentiful, and distributed over the whole island ; whilst Satyrus semele, 

 Epinephele tUhonus, Lyccena argiolus, Macroglossa stellatarum, and M. 

 fuciformis were taken daily.— F. H. Wag staff ; Nov. 28th, 1895. 



Pyrameis cardui, 1895. — I noticed a few worn specimens on the sea- 

 bank and marshes in this neighbourhood during June and the beginning of 

 July, and a few fresh ones in September, in clover-fields, while out 

 shooting. — Gervase F. Mathew; Dovercourt, Essex, Nov. 19th, 1895. 



Glowworms in October. — On Oct. 15th last, in very warm wet 

 weather, while driving along the Blackdown Hills between Taunton and 

 Honiton, about six p.m., I observed several glowworms, Latnpyris nocti- 

 luca (female), shining brightly among the herbage at the roadside. Alto- 

 gether, perhaps, a dozen were seen. Is this not unusually late in the year? 

 — S. G. Reid ; The Elms, Yalding, Kent, Nov. 20th, 1895. 



Leucania viTELLiNA IN HAMPSHIRE. — I havc to report the capture, at 

 sugar, of two specimens of Leucania vitellina at Christchurch, One was 

 taken on Oct. 3rd, and one on the 6th of that montti. The specimens are 

 in fair condition. — A. Druitt; Christchurch, Hants, November, 1895. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of Butterflies. By 

 Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 12mo. Pp. viii, 279. Boston : 

 Houghton, Mifain & Co. 1895. 



This volume contains a selection of instructive essays, dealing with 

 questions connected with the distribution, structure, history, &c., of 

 butterflies, which were originally published in the same author's 

 remarkable work on the ' Butterflies of the Eastern United States.' 

 There are thirty-one of these papers, all written in an exceedingly 

 pleasant style, and in each the subject under consideration is fully 

 discussed. Several of the species referred to are British, and many of 

 the others belong to genera occurring in this country. 



We have great pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to 

 this interesting little book. 



Reports of Societies are unavoidably postponed until February. 



