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might perhaps catch another, which led me to the lucerne patches. I did not 

 then know that Hyale was so abundant this year. In Marsh Bay, about a mile 

 and a-half to the west of Margate, I saw them flying by dozens, but by the 7th 

 August they were so much worn as to be hardly worth catching. But to return to 

 the morning of the 27th July. I had hardly boxed my first specimen of Hyale 

 when I saw upon a spray of lucerne, just in front of me, a beautiful Argynnis Lathonia ; 

 this I caught, and within ten minutes, and within a few yards of the same spot, I 

 took a female Pieris Daplid/ice, a very fine specimen, measuring two inches across 

 the wings. Both this and Lathonia were in splendid condition. I fancy it has not 

 often fallen to the lot of a collector to take Hyale, Lathonia, and Daplidice within 

 the space of half-an-hour. — Arthue Cottam, Stone Grove Cottage, Edgware, 

 August IZth, 1868. 



Argynnis Lathonia at Ramsgate. — On the 7th of this month I captured A. 

 Lathonia at the above locality. On the 30th ult. I found Lyccsna Corydon in Hyde 

 Park. — W. G. Armstrong, 92, King's Road, Chelsea, August, 1868. 



Ca/ptwre of Agrotera nemoralis. — I captured a poor specimen of this rare insect 

 on the 11th of June, at the same spot where I took one in 1866, as recorded in the 

 Magazine [Vol. iii., p. 207].— "E. N. Bloomfield, Guestliug, August 10th, 1868. 



Sphinx convolvuli and Deilephila lineata at Ouestling. — On Thursday last I had 

 brought to me a very fine specimen of S. convolvuli, which had flown into a house 

 in an adjoining parish ; and this morning, just before day-break, I took D. lineata 

 hovering at scarlet geranium flowers in my garden : the humming noise it made 

 when flying was very marked. — Id. 



Chrosis euphorhiana bred. — I have much pleasure in recording the fact that I 

 have lately been successful in rearing Chrosis euphorhiana, from larvas which I 

 found feeding in the heart of Euphorbia amygdaloides in this neighbourhood, — 

 W. PuRDEY, 15, Grove Terrace, Folkestone, August 13th, 1868. 



CoUas Hyale and Argynnis Lathonia at Colchester. — It will probably interest the 

 readers of the " Entomologist's Monthly Magazine " to learn, that on Saturday last, 

 August 15th, I captured in this neighbourhood one specimen of Colias Edusa, 

 twelve of Colias Hyale, and one of Argynnis Lathonia. The Lathonia appeared to 

 me, when it first settled down on a lucerne blossom before my astonished eyes, to 

 be the freshest and loveliest specimen I had ever beheld ; but either this was my 

 fancy, or else I must have been exceeedingly clumsy in capturing it, for after killing 

 it, I found it was not in such good condition as I had hoped.— W. H. Harwood, 

 St. Peter's, Colchester, August 17th, 1868. 



Abundance of Colias Hyale in 1868. — In some lucerne fields in the neighbour- 

 hood of Gravesend I have found C. Hyale tolerably abundant this month. On the 

 5th, being accompanied by a friend, fifty specimens, including several fine females, 

 were taken between us, in the course af about two hours' collecting in the morning. 

 C. EdAisa has also been plentiful. My friend, Mr. Howard Vaughan, has also taken 

 both species in the same locality. — P. Basdkn Smith, Admiralty, Somerset House, 

 15th August, 1868. 



