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recorded. Colias Edusa, the Clouded Yellow butterfly, has 

 been extremely abundant in Guernsey, and two specimens of its 

 more aristocratic relation, Colias Hyale, were taken near Cobo. 



Several specimens of Edusa were seen by Mr. Marquand 

 in Guernsey, as early as May 28th and 30th. Several were 

 also noticed in Sark on May 25th. Others were seen by the 

 members of the Society during an excursion to Talbot's 

 Valley, on June 7th, and one captured, which proved to be a 

 female in fair condition ; another, also a female, was captured 

 near the Gouffre on June 12th. 



No doubt as a result of eggs laid by these earty speci- 

 mens, Edusa was most abundant during August, especially in 

 the lucerne and clover fields near our southern and western 

 coasts, and on the occasion of a visit paid to the neighbouring 

 island of Alderney by a member of the section, August 4th to 

 11th, they were found in even greater abundance swarming 

 all over that island. 



The most notable capture of this species was made by a 

 lady member of the section, Mrs. Boley, who took two speci- 

 mens of the beautiful variety of the female, named Helice, 

 which is extremely rare in Guernsey. These were taken near 

 Moulin Huet Bay on August 11th. By placing her captures 

 on pieces of the food plant, lucerne, she induced one to lay 

 eggs, which hatched out shortly afterwards and were skilfully 

 reared to maturity. Several males and two females emerged 

 on September 27th and October 1st. The males were of the 

 ordinary type, but all the females were the variety Helice. 



The only other account I can find of the eggs of Helice 

 being reared is in the Entomologist for 1878, page 53, in 

 which Mr. Edward Fitch, in a long article on Colias Edusa, 

 says, " I learn from Mr. Meek, that Mr. Gates, of Brighton, 

 bred a male Edusa from eggs laid by Helice. From eight to ten 

 eggs only one reached the pupa state." It is interesting there- 

 fore to note that all the females reared by Mrs. Boley were 

 Helice, like the mother, thus proving it to be a permanent va- 

 riety. The Eed Admiral (Pyrameis Atalanta) and the Painted 

 Lady (Pyrameis Cardui) have also been very abundant. 



A member of our Society, the Rev. F. E. Lowe, has 

 recorded the capture of a specimen of that rare British but- 

 terfly, the Long-tailed Blue (Lampides Bcetica). 



The last recorded specimen was taken three or four years 

 ago by Mr. Spencer, jun., near Fort George, previous to which 

 the late Miss Renouf, an ardent entomologist, took one in a 

 garden in Burnt Lane in 1872, and eight in the same locality 

 m 1859. 



