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September, a young entomological friend, sou of the Rev. J. Goadby, took two males 

 of Colias Edusa, in a lane close to this town. The capture of the insect in our inland 

 county, in the present year, is very interesting, as an additional fact in support of a 

 quadrennial theory started by Messrs. Jordan and Newman, (Zool. 176). The speci- 

 mens are of a lighter colour than that usually ascribed to C. Edusa, but in other re- 

 spects they more resemble that species than its near congener C. Philodice ; and they 

 are so beautifully and freshly coloured, as to leave no doubt of their being bred near 

 the spot; thus discountenancing the opinion of sea-shore emigration. What surprises 

 me most is the kind of weather they chose for their winged existence, so cold and win- 

 terly had been the preceding week ; and that they had not appeared during the more 

 genial weather before that, I am convinced, because I was myself at that time a good 

 deal about the same locality. The autumn altogether has been very prolific in the 

 finer butterflies here. Cynthia Cardui kept us company from early in August till a 

 late period. Fine specimens of Polychloros have been about. lo was in countless 

 multitudes, and Rhamni, previously of rare occurrence, has been more commonly met 

 with. — Henry Walter Bates ; Queen St., Leicester, October 3, 1843. 



Note on the occurrence of Colias Edusa in Surrey. I captured one at Fetcham- 

 downs on the 16th of September : on the 17th Mr. E. Doubleday caught two at once 

 with his hat, in a field in Headley lane, where we saw about a dozen more, but had no 

 nets to take them with. Mr. B. Standish has taken two at Camberwell ; and a few 

 have been seen and taken at Riddlesdown : but I do not think it has been so common 

 as C. Hyale was last year, at least in the neighbourhood of London. — J. W. Douglas ; 

 6, Grenville Terrace, Cohurg Road, Kent Road ; September 28, 1843. 



Note on the occurrence of Colias Hyale in Kent. Mr. B. Standish took one between 

 Birch and Darenth woods, in August, and I saw one at Headley-lane, on the 17th of 

 September.— Id. 



Note on the occurrence of Colias Hyale in Kent and Sussex. I took a specimen of 

 this butterfly in the field facing the Bull inn, a few days back, and I saw another on 

 the 26th of last month, on the banks of the Shoreham and Brighton railway ; these 

 are the only two specimens that have come under my observation this year, and I un- 

 derstand very few have been taken. I could not see any in the same lucerne field 

 that I took so many in last year at Arundel. — Samuel Stevens ; 38, King St., Covent 

 Garden, September 22, 1843. 



Note on the occurrence of Sphinx Convolvuli at Lower Clapton. I captured a fine 

 specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli in my garden, in September, 1842. — R. Wakefield ; 

 Lower Clapton, September 5, 1843. 



Note on Anthrocera Loti. In 1841 I found the 5-spotted burnet-moth {A. Loti) 

 plentifully at the beginning of June : this year they did not make their appearance 

 till six weeks later, namely, about the middle of July. I refer to the Isle of Wight. 

 In the former year they were hatched on the stems of the mowing grass ; and had they 

 been later in arriving at maturity, would have perished in the hay that year. In 

 the present year I did not find them at all about the mowing grass, but on rough 

 ground that never is mowed. Now since the season causes an undoubted variation in 

 the time of their appearance, am I fanciful in asking, — " Did not instinct teach the 

 larvae in the present instance to avoid those places that would be dangerous (which in 

 the year of the early disclosure of the moth, they frequented with impunity), and to 

 seek a spot less hazardous, whereon to undergo their transformation, when the unfa- 

 vourable character of th season would necessarily delay the appearance of the perfect 



