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say, before dusk. We are then engaged with our sugar, and as we 

 have a stretch of ground over a mile long, with splendid trees on each 

 side, which have been regularly sugared for over 20 years, we have 

 not time for taking it on the wing. When I have given attention to 

 it, I have taken it not uncommonly, along with the much commoner 

 A. avevsata. — Wm. Hewett, 3, Wilton Terrace, York. 



Colias edusa. — This species has occurred here this season. I 

 took three during the latter part of August. — Louis Meaden, 15, 

 Elm Grove, Brighton. 



Colias edusa has occurred here in fair numbers. I hear of some 

 20 specimens falling to the net of local collectors. One youth had six 

 or seven males and one female. It had not been observed here since 

 1877, the great Edusa year. — F. N. Pierce, Liverpool. 



In connection with the occurrence of C. edusa in England this year, 

 it may be interesting to note that on July 30th, while sailing about 

 30 miles off the coast of Brittany, I saw three specimens of this 

 butterfly being carried by the wind in a north-westerly direction. — 

 Geo. A. Harker, 100, Huskisson Street, Liverpool. 



Aciptilia paludum. — My sons and I duly worked the locality every 

 favourable evening throughout August, and on the last but two or three 

 I caught two A. paludum in fine condition. These were the only ones 

 found during the whole month. I was glad to see them, as otherwise, 

 not having seen even one in 1888, I should have almost concluded that 

 it was extinct. I look forward to it again turning up in some future 

 season, as freely as in 1886-7, but there is no hazarding even a guess 

 on these matters. I wish we could find the larva or pupa ! Unfor- 

 tunately we did not make a serious search for these in either of the 

 two years when the imago was abundant, and of course in 1888-9, 

 when the imago was almost non est, our search for larvae, &c, was 

 little likely to be successful. — (Rev.) O. P. Cambridge, Bloxworth, 

 10th October, 1889. 



Cerostoma lucella. — I have never known so bad a season as the 

 past for lepidoptera, and yet in the first week in June, for a few days, 

 I have rarely seen so many, both species and individuals, of micros of 

 all kinds, as I saw here in our woods. From that time, almost every- 

 thing has been rare, and multitudes of the commonest moths have not 

 appeared at all. The only good thing I got was about a score of 

 C. lucella, between July 9th and September 1st, and these were all, 

 with two exceptions, beaten from one large oak bush. — (Rev. O. P. 

 Cambridge, Bloxworth Rectory. 



