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in the Entomologist (vol. v., p. i6i). He there states that it feeds 
on ash {Fraxinus excelsior)^ and is full fed early in July. — Id. 
CoLiAS HYALE IN THE SPRING. — The experience of my friend, Mr. 
Postans, with regard to this species, does not coincide with my own 
which dates back to the year 1867. I have never been lucky enough 
to meet with this species in the spring, and think that spring records 
are very rare. In 1875, a great hyale year, I took as many as seventy 
specimens near Maldon, and among them one so deformed that it 
could barely fly, thus proving conclusivelv that it had been bred in 
this country. One of the 2 deposited (in Septe? 7 iber) eight eggs — 
seven in the bottom of a pocket-box, and one on a clover-head : these, 
however, proved to be infertile, shrivelling up in a few days. It seems 
to me highly probable that the majority of the specimens of hyale 
taken in England in ordinary years (when the species is not abundant) 
are of French birth, and cross over to England in August or 
September; but that when any considerable number of $ ’s happen to 
come over to us in May or June they deposit their eggs in our clover- 
fields, and the larvae (thus avoiding the perils of hybernation) thrive 
and prosper, producing in the autumn a goodly number of imagines. 
Such a year comes only now and then, but, when it does, it is what 
our Yankee friends would call a “ hyale boom ” year ! — Gilbert H. 
Raynor, Victoria House, Brentwood. March 2o//z, 1891. 
CoLiAS hyale in the Spring. — Like the Rev. G. H. Raynor, I 
have never met with spring C. hyale and have heard but rarely of 
their occurrence in Britain, and with him I agree that they must 
almost of necessity be immigrants. 1875 is my only experience of a 
hyale year. In that year, early specimens in poor condition were not 
uncommon, and in the August of that year our southern clover-fields 
were alive with freshly-emerged and emerging specimens. I remember 
with what delight, on entering a clover-field near Cuxton, I suddenly 
awakened to the fact that the numerous butterflies scudding about 
from flower to flower were Colias hyale, and I should be rather 
ashamed to own how many specimens I captured in the course of a 
very few days. The species lingered on into September, until it 
seemed that our approaching winter killed them off ; and if the species 
regularly hybernated here, out of the many thousands in our south- 
eastern counties a few must have survived and appeared the following 
spring. But they did not, neither do I know of any actual record of 
such a fact, hence my editorial note, which I still consider quite 
correct. — J. W. Tutt. March, 1891. 
Notodonta trilophus, etc., as Scotch Insects. — It may interest 
some of the (now many) beginners in Scotland to know that about 
the year 1850 the late Mr. E. C. Buxton had a lot of Demas coryli and 
Notodonta ziczac sent him for about twopence each. Among the latter 
there was a big one which turned out to be trilophus. Mr. Buxton 
told me at the time about it. He also used to get plenty of Lobophora 
hexapterata off the white poplars, at the place where he used to go 
salmon fishing in May. Boarmia cinctaria also occurred at the same 
place. It may also interest some of the Glasgow collectors to know 
that I saw a very fine specimen of lapidata in a collection, captured 
near Glasgow, when in Scotland two years ago. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 
Ashton-on-Ribble. March, 1891. 
