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Insects. 



or certainly at once to decide an inland specimen from a maritime one. On the 4tli 

 of the present month (July) a specimen of C.Hyalewas seen and chased from flower 

 flower for half a mile, in a lane near Shardlow, Leicestershire, by my father, who did n( 

 succeed in securing it under his hat, though it allowed him repeatedly to strike at it. 1\ 

 appeared to him to differ in nowise from the specimen mentioned above. On the 13tl 

 of July Mr. Harley saw a specimen of C. Hyale flying about the fields near a fann ' 

 Shropshire, the colouring of which appeared to him very singular and beautiful. H< 

 alighted from his horse to pursue it, but in chasing it the horse took fright, and the 

 insect escaped him, although struck down. He returned the next day, but the insc 

 never made its appearance again. He was able, from the sight he had of it for 

 while on the flowers, to notice the colouring and markings well, and describes it 

 being of a very rich sulphur, with the apical margins and the discoidal spot of the foi 

 wing of a deepish red colour. I need hardly add that the capture of this insect woulc 

 have added to the beauty of this genus of our diurnal Lepidoptera. — J. Plant ; 37J 

 King St., Leicester, July 21, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Colias Hyale. Whilst driving into Canterbury to-day (Jun« 

 16), I observed a butterfly in a clover-field, which proves to be Colias Hyale. I for^ 

 tunately captured it in my hat after a short chase, not having my net with me. An( 

 ther has been seen in the same place, where I also took five specimens last summer^ 

 about the beginning of August. — /oAn B. Harrison ; Barham, near Canterbury, Jul^ 

 15, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Heliothis armigera near Salford, (figured in Boisduval). 

 have great pleasure in announcing this fine addition to British Lepidoptera, a beau^ 

 tiful female specimen having been taken in September, 1840, off the door of an out 

 house belonging to my friend Mr. John Thomas, of Oldfield Lane, Salford, who libc 

 rally added it to my cabinet. — Robert S. Edleston ,• Feam Acre, Cheetham Hill, 

 Manchester, July, 1843. 



Note on Saturnia Pavonia-minor and Lasiocampa Rubi. A few days after I sen^ 

 my last communication (Zool. 199), I was on White Moss, in the afternoon, and amai 

 having a female of Saturnia Pavonia-minor, I remained with him a short time, whei 

 to our great surprise, the males of Lasiocampa Rubi began to fly to the cage, but im^ 

 mediately on alighting on the box, found out their mistake and required to be securec" 

 I never was witness to anything of the sort before. — Id. 



Note on the variation in colour of Scoliopteryx libatrix. I caught a specimen 

 Scoliopteryx libatrix on the 13th of March last, in an empty house. Whether it ha« 

 hybernated in the imago state, as the species of Vanessa generally do, 1 have no mead 

 of ascertaining. It was thoroughly perfect, the scales not being abraded on any pr 

 of it. Whilst speaking of this insect I may observe that neither Mr. Duncan (in th« 

 ' British Moths, — Naturalists' Library') nor Mr. Westwood (in his volume just pul 

 lished) says anything respecting tlie varieties of colour to which this species is subject 

 although the colouring of their plates is very diff*erent (at least in the copies I have) 

 Mr. Duncan's being very light and Mr. Westwood's extremely dark. I have two " 

 dividuals, one of them equalling the lightest and the other the darkest of the plat 

 alluded to above. — James Bladon ; Pont-y-Pool, July 10, 1843. 



Note on the capture of Lithosia muscerda in Norfolk. On the 17th of this mont 

 I took several specimens of this rare species in the meadows at Horning, in Norfoll 

 They made their appearance from half-past 8 till 10 o'clock in the evening, slowly fl^ 

 ing over the long grass, and were very easily captured. I think amongst them tliei 



