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would return to its normal habit. I watched 

 it as closely as lay in my power. The leaves, 

 which usually come up in spring with the 



J seed pods, came almost with the spring 



| flowers, but never could I or any of my party 

 meet with a seed pod. This autumn the 



i meadows where it occurs were gay as usual 

 with its lovely lilac, leafless flowers, and no 



i doubt can be felt that it will, as its wont is, 

 throw up its seed pods with the leaves in 

 18S1. — (Mrs.) S. E. Hutchinson, Leominster. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &C, 



Spring Blooming of Colchicum 

 Autumn ale. — In the Spiing of this year (See 

 7, A\, Vol. i, page 221), I recorded the — to me 

 —curious fact, that Colchicum autumnale 

 was then in full bloom, although the flowers 

 were paler and more wax-like than the usual 

 Autumn ones. This I supposed was owing 

 to it not flowering the previous autumn, 

 which I attributed to the wet, sunless sum- 

 mer. Being anxious to learn how this plant 



EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates: — Litura, Aprilim, Zatellitia, 

 and Qxyacantha, Desiderata : — Numerous. 

 — A. Bramwell, Prior Street, Gateshead-on- 

 Tvne. 



Duplicates : — Gonostigma, Salicis, Dispar, 

 j Sambucata, Biundularia, Sylvata, Batis, Rurea, 

 j Suffusa, C -Nigrum, Ferruginea, Diffinis, Ajfinis, 

 ! and many others. — D. Hall, New Court, 

 Gosford Street, Coventry. 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



By J. E. Robson ; with figures from life by 

 S. L. Mosley. 



(Assisted by Contributors to the Y. N.) 



Genus II, Melitaea, F. 



" Melitaea, a town in Thessaly. Sodoffsky 

 proposes Melinsea, a surname of Venus, from 

 Meli, honey. — A.L. 



This genus does not contain half so mam- 

 species, as the last named, only about 40 

 being enumerated. Like it they inhabit, for 

 the most part northern and temperate climes. 

 Many of them are excessively variable, and 

 some species seem to run so much into other; 

 their discrimination is often a matter c £ 

 difficulty, which the uniform character of. 

 their markings does not tend to simplify: 

 Only three species are British, but though 

 they are variable enough themselves there is 

 no difficulty ; n distinguishing them. Stray 

 specimens of one or two others have been 



