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twice observed it, and I understand that a few individuals were taken there last year. — 

 A. Greenwood; Hitchin, October 14, 1844. 



Note on the occurrence of Colias Edusa. On the 14th of last September I ob- 

 served a fine specimen of this insect flying by the road-side, close to Lyndhurst, in 

 Hampshire, and on the 25th, another in the centre of the town of Southampton. On 

 the 4th of September, a fine female was captured by my friend Mr. Grant, in a field 

 adjoining Black Park, Buckinghamshire: and I am told numerous specimens have 

 been taken in Battersea fields. I took a fine female on the 11th October, in a lucerne 

 field, near Arundel, and saw others. A month since it was, 1 understand, seen in 

 • plenty in the same field, in company with a few specimens of Hyale. — Samuel 

 Stevens; 38, King-street, Coven t Garden, October 18, 1844. 



Note on the occurrence of Colias Edusa in Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire. 

 As you request to know whether Colias Edusa has been observed this autumn, I send 

 you my experience on the appearance of that interesting butterfly in this part of 

 Suffolk and Essex, and the adjoining part of Cambridgeshire. Mj acquaintance with 

 it commenced on the 20th of August, 1 834, when a small male was brought me by a 

 young friend, who captured a pair in his hat at Horseheath, in Cambridgeshire, but 

 the female made her escape ; he informed me that he saw a few others. In 1835 

 (the quadrennial year) I took one male only near Kedingtou, and did not meet with it 

 again until 1838, when one was captured on the Devil's Ditch, near Beach ; in 1839 

 (the quadrennial year) I took three specimens near Ely, and saw three others which 

 were taken by a friend: on the following year, 1840, only one was seen ; and although 

 I searched every year (particularly in 1842, when I rambled over several hundred 

 acres of land in search of its congener Colias Hyale), I did not meet with a single 

 specimen until last year (1843, the quadrennial year), when one was taken, and two 

 others seen (Zool. 485); this year it has been rather plentiful; on the 12th of Sep- 

 tember, whilst driving between Sudbury and Foxearth, I saw two specimens flying bv 

 the side of the road, and have since taken three at Great Cornard, and seen about 

 eight others in the surrounding neighbourhood, withiu five miles of Sudburv ; I also 

 saw one that was taken near Clare, about ten miles off, and a*n informed that two 

 others were seen in the same locality. — W. Gaze; Ballingdon, Sudbury, Oct. 18, 1>44. 

 Note on the occurrence of Colias Edusa at Cromer and Roydon. I observed Colias 

 Edusa in abundance at Cromer, and captured a fine specimen in a low meadow at 

 Roydon this autumn. — Henry T. Frere, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, October 

 24, 1844. 



Note on the capture of Colias Edusa near Swanage, Dorsetshire. On the ar- 

 rival of our 'Zoologist' for September, we saw a question respecting the appearance 

 of Colias Edusa and Hyale. Of the former we have seen fifteen specimens (while 

 last year we met with it in the greatest profusion), aud of the latter we have not met 

 with a single specimen. — Christopher R. Lighton ; Swanage, Dorset, Sept. 17, 1844. 



Note on the capture of Polyommatus Arion. I have again taken, this season on 

 Barnewall Wold, Northamptonshire, this beautiful insect, in plenty (forty-nine speci- 

 mens). It is a very local insect, for though I hive searched the Wold well, I have 

 only found it on one spot, in the corner of a rough pasture under a wood. It is an 

 easy insect to take, flying very low, and is very conspicuous, settling occasionallv on 

 the wild thyme, the purple bugle, and a dwarf thistle, but I have never seen it on the 

 bramble blossoms, though very abundaut. — Frederick Bond, Kingsburu. Oct. 7. 1844 

 Note on Deilephila lincata, or D. Uv >rnica, Daphnis Nerii, ic. .The notice in the 



