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The Naturalist. 



Thais Rumina IN Brighton. — Mr. Dowsett, of North-street, Brighton, 

 showed me, last Saturday, a specimen of this butterfly, which had been 

 recently caught in the Brighton Market. From the nature of the place 

 of its capture there can be no doubt that the insect had been brought into 

 this country with fruit, vegetables, &c. , from the Mediterranean district, 

 — H. Goss, Surbiton Hill, Surrey, October 11th. 



Colias Edusa m Cottingley Wood. — On the 30th September last I 

 caught a fine male specimen of Colias Edusa, doubtless the second brood, 

 at rest on the flowers of Senecio Jacobcea, near Cottingley Wood. 

 This is the first specimen I have met with in this locality. Last Saturday, 

 (Oct. 6th), whilst collecting cocoons of Saturnia carpini on Harden Moor, 

 I observed a merlin flying after what I thought was a flock of golden 

 plovers. This beautiful falcon does not often visit this neighbourhood, 

 but I have met with it on Barden Moor in the breeding season, where it 

 doubtless breeds. — E. P. P. Butterfield, Wilsden, Oct. 15th. 



Colias Edusa in North Yorkshire, &c. — I took a male Colias Edusa at 

 Lartington (North Yorkshire j, yesterday (Oct. 2nd). On Sept. 9th and 

 16th, I took about a dozen at Hartlepool, including two females. A hive 

 of bees swarmed here on October 1st : is not this very unusual so late in 

 the season ? — J. Oardner, Egglestone, Oct. 3rd. 



Colias Edusa at Wakefield. — I have had the good fortune to capture 

 twenty-one specimens in very fine condition ; amongst them was a 

 beautiful pale variety, which I think is Helice. — Henry Lumb, Wake- 

 field, Oct., 1877. — [We had the pleasure of seeing a number of these 

 specimens recently ; the pale form is the var. Helice. — Eds. Nat."] 



Colias Helice at Chichester. — During the month of August my brother 

 and I took 45 Helice, nearly all in the finest condition, and, with one 

 exception, all of them in the same field. They varied in colour from rich 

 cream and primrose to greenish white, and showed considerable diversity 

 in the size of the marginal spots, these in one or two instances being 

 reduced to a minimum. — J oseph Anderson, J un. , Chichester. 



Acherontia Atropos. — A fine specimen was captured in one of the streets 

 of York, by Mr. C. D. Wolstenholme, on 14th Sept. — R. Marchant. 



Acherontia Atropos — In this district at least (Chichester) the season 

 seems to be almost as remarkable for the abundance of the larvae of 

 Acherontia Atropos as for the swarms of Edusa, for which it will be 

 long celebrated. I have had twelve in my possession. — J. Anderson, Jun. 



Laughing Gull. — Is Mr. W. H. Cheesman quite certain that the gull 

 reported by him from Piccall Common is the laughing gull ? Might it not 

 be the black-headed gull {L. ridihundus), which I believe is called laughing 

 gull, or laugher, in some districts'? — S. L. Mosley, Primrose-hill, 

 Huddersfield. 



