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might perhaps catch another, which led me to the lucerne patches. I did not 
then know that Hyale was so abxindant 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 Lathoma ; 
this I caught, and within ten minutes, and within a few yards of the same spot, I 
took a female Pieris Daplidice, 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 Eyale, Laihonia, and Daplidice within 
the space of half-an-hour.-ARXHUR Cottam, Stone Grove Cottage, Edgware, 
August 13th, 1868. 
Argynnis Lathonia at Bamsgate.-On the 7th of this month I captured A. 
Lathonia at the above locality. On the 30th ult. I found Lyca^na Corydon in Hyde 
Park.— W. G. Armstrong, 92, King's Eoad, Chelsea, August, 1868. 
Capture 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, Guestling, August 10th, 1868. 
Sphinx convohuli and DeilephUa lineata at Guestling.— 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 euphorUana bred.— I have much pleasure in recording the fact that I 
have lately been successful in rearing Chrosis euphorUana, from larvaa which I 
found feeding in the heart of Euphorbia armjgdaloides in this neighbourhood.— 
W. PuRDET, 15, Grove Terrace, Folkestone, August IWi, 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. Hauwood, 
St. Peter's, Colchester, Aiigust 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. Edusa has also been plentiful. My friend, Mr. Howard Vaughan, has also taken 
both species in the same locality.— P. Basden Smith, Admiralty, Somerset House, 
15t^ August, 1868. 
