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never known it so broadcast as this year. Holly cannot be 

 its food-plant, or it would come off with very short commons 

 in this neighbourhood. In the garden it is on Laurustinus, 

 and in the hedges and along the roadsides everywhere. — 

 V. R. Perkius ; Wootton-imder-Edge, May 10, 1870. 



Larv(B of Argiolus, — The flowers of the holly, ivy and 

 buckthorn are the aliment of the larvae. These three plants 

 flower but once a year ; and while the holly and buckthorn 

 bloom in May, the ivy flowers late in autumn. Yet two 

 broods occur in places where only one of the food-plants 

 named is found ; and it would appear, from the condition of 

 the spring brood, as if ihey had not hybernated, and that 

 there must therefore have been two broods of caterpillars. 

 I have seen a female in August depositing eggs amongst ivy, 

 so probably it hybernates in the pupa state. — J, R, S. 

 Clifford. 



[Mr. Horley, of Hoddesdon, informs me that in the 

 November of last year he beat a larva of Argiolus from the 

 blossoms of the ivy, on which it appeared to have been 

 feeding : it changed to a pupa during the same month, and 

 to a butterfly during April of the present year : this informa- 

 tion, coupled with the preceding, seems to point to ivy- 

 bloom as the food of the second generation of the larvae of 

 Argiolus, and also shows that it hybernates in the pupa state. 

 — E. Newman.'] 



Remarkable Variety of Euphrosyne. — I have just taken 

 two specimens of a beautiful variety of Euphrosyne, both 

 exactly alike — all black, with a few blotches of red. — 

 G. Parry ; Church Street, St. Paul's, Canterbury, June 14. 



Colias Edusa in June. — I was rather surprised by taking 

 a specimen of Colias Edusa this afternoon near Winchfield 

 Railway Station. It is a large male, and from the worn 

 appearance of its wings I should say it had hybernated. 

 I send this account because it confirms your statement in 

 the 'British Butterflies' (p. 17) as regards the hybernation 

 of this species. Hybernated specimens of Cardui are now 

 common ; and I also met this afternoon with hybernated lo 

 and Rhamni. — J. J. Spiller ; Odiham, Hampshire, June 14. 



Deilephila livornica at Brighton. — I have just seen on 

 the setting-board a specimen of D. livornica, slightly rubbed, 

 taken on Tuesday, May 31st, at Brighton, by A. Gates, of 

 61, Belgrave Street. — T. W. Wonfor ; Brighton, June 4. 



