THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER 
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Colias Hyale. — I captured a splendid 
specimen of this insect in a lucerne field 
at the Kemp Town end of Brighton on 
Thursday last. I saw three of C. Eclusa. 
— “Bombyx;” August 17. 
Erebia Blandina. — I have been spend- 
ing the last few days at Braemar, and on 
one of the hills near the village I found 
Erebia Blandina in great numbers. The 
hill was almost entirely covered with 
birch and pine trees, and the insect oc- 
curred in an open space near the top of 
the hill. The ground here was covered 
with coarse grass, heather and ferns: the 
insect was flitting about, chiefly among 
the ferns, and was so numerous that in 
two excursions I caught upwards of three 
dozen. I also caught a single specimen 
of Ccenonympha Davus, and have no doubt 
that I would have got many more if I 
had been a fortnight earlier. Argynnis 
Aylaia is by far the most common but- 
terfly round Braemar; numbers are to 
be seen in every glen, but, owing to the 
difficulty of catching them, I could only 
secure two dozen. — B. Jazdowski, 120, 
Crown Street, Aberdeen; August 15. 
Captures near Sevenoaks. — Having col- 
lected for some weeks this summer in the 
vicinity of Sevenoaks, in Kent, I send a 
list of some of my captures : — 
Arge Galathea, 
Apatura Iris, 
Melitrea Artemis, 
Polyommatus Alsus, 
„ ASgon, 
„ Corydon, 
Sesia fuciformis, 
„ bombyliformis, 
Hepialus velleda, 
Stauropus Fagi, 
Miltochrista miniata, 
Drepana unguicula, 
Acronycta Ligustri, 
Agrotis cinerea, 
Aplccta tincta, 
„ herbida, &c., See. 
— W. Faruen, jun., King's Old Gateway, 
Cambridge; August (i. 
Captures near Cambridge. — I have this 
week taken the following larvae: — M. Stel- 
latarum, Ch. porcellus, C. Elpenor, Anli- 
clea sinuala. I have again taken speci- 
mens of P Alsus, in the perfect state, in 
Flem Dyke, at Fulborn, near here, so 
that I have not the slightest doubt that 
it is double-brooded. — Ibid. 
Captures in the Isle of Wight. — I have 
been taking P. Adonis and Corydon near 
Carisbrooke Castle lately. Perhaps this 
may prove useful to some of your readers. 
Agestis also abounds here. I have taken 
Tkanaos Pages sparingly, but the second 
brood seems to be confined to about forty 
feet square, in localities where the first 
was abundant. I met with Colias Edusa, 
for the first time, on the 5th : is not that 
unusually early ? — A. C. James, Padmore 
Whipping ham. Isle of Wight ; Aug. 17. 
Colias Hyale. — Yesterday T had the 
pleasure of making acquaintance with 
my first specimen of C. Hyale ; it was 
flying over a saintfoin field in Wigmore 
Wood: after a smart up-hill chase I suc- 
ceeded in capturing it, and found it to 
be a male, rather wasted, but neverthe- 
less a glorious prize. Returning home 
over Darland Hill, thinking of my Hyale, 
and wondering whether I was too early 
for Edusa, great was my surprise and 
astonishment when there arose, almost 
from under my feet, an apparition (for I 
could hardly believe in the reality) : there, 
floating before me was what appeared to 
be Machaon ; but no, it could not be! 
What! Machaon on the top of a Kentish 
chalk hill, high and dry, scarcely out of 
the smoke of Chatham ! The idea was 
preposterous. I stood motionless ; but 
there was no disputing the fact, — it was 
indeed Machaon. I therefore bestirred 
myself, and, after a little dodging to and 
fro (I had but a small pocket-net, and 
the wind was very high), I succeeded in 
capturing it, when it proved to be a fine 
female, in splendid condition, but minus 
one tail, which I strongly suspect became 
detached in the scuffle. I had just boxed 
