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the (listL'icfc. I cannot believe that they are all Continental examples, 

 but the fact remains, so I understand, that the larva is unknown in 

 this country ! — C. Bingham Newland, Killetra. September 2~)t/t, 1<S98. 



POLYOMMATUS lOLAS AND P. ZEPIIYRUS VAR. LYCIDASIN SwiT/ERLAND. 



— Owing to the kindness of Mr. Postaus in directing rau to the 

 exact spot, near Sierre, where six specimens of P. iolas have been taken 

 in recent years (Ent. Hec, p. 35), I was fortunate enough to take 

 three more, two males and a female, on the 26th and 27th of .June 

 last. I also saw a specimen, which eluded me on the 2oth. It is a 

 curious fact, that although the food-plant is well distributed over the 

 plantation, the butterfly has only been seen or captured at one particular 

 spot on its outskirts. I have, however, myself found the larva on 

 plants at some little distance. My only other capture of interest in 

 Switzerland, this year, was that of P. li/cidas, not at Berisal but at St. 

 Nicholas, as already recorded by the Kcv. Frank Lowe. The species 

 would appear to be fairly well established in this locality, which 

 deserves, I think, to be better known to English entomologists. 

 Its position on the railway, midway between Visp and Zermatt (either 

 of which places can be reached in little over an hour), makes it an 

 excellent centre for working the district. Very comfortable (piarters 

 can be had at the "Grand Hotel, St. Nicholas," of which, from a 

 lengthened experience, I can speak in the highest terms. — (Eev.) C. J. 

 BucKMASTER, M.A., Hiudley Vicarage, Wigan. 



The hybernating stage of Dryas paphia. — During the latter part 

 of August, I observed a Drijas paphia $ hovering about in the vicinity 

 of violets {Viola udurata). I was standing quite still in company with 

 my boy, when the insect settled on his trousers, depositing two ova ; 

 they appeared small when compared with the size of the butterfly, I 

 cut them out carefully, placing them in a glass tube, and watching them 

 from day to day under the microscope. About September 5th, I noticed 

 black spots at the apex of the ovum, and on September 10th, both 

 hatched out. Excepting the head, which was black and shining, the 

 larvae were transparent and very small. I supplied them with fresh 

 tender leaves of violet and iris, and continued to do so daily, but could 

 discover no indications of their having eaten any, though they (the 

 larvae) changed to a darker colour, and seemed to increase slightly in 

 size. In a few days they left the food-plant and crawled up the tube to the 

 bottom of the cork, where they have remained ever since. The question 

 arises as to whether the larva of this species hybernates immediately 

 after hatching, and without partaking of food. I tried them with both 

 kinds of violet. — C. Bingham Newland, Killetra, Mallow, co. Cork. 

 September 25th, 1898. [Ari/ijunis af/laia we know hybernates at once 

 after leaving the egg. We should be glad if some of our readers could 

 give an authoritative answer as to D. paphia. — Ed.] . 



Flowers attractive to moths. — I am about to change my resi- 

 dence to a place in Hampshire, situated between Liphook and 

 Frensham. I believe the district is noted for entomology, and hope to 

 find it more productive than co. Cork. I intend laying out the garden 

 specially with the view of attracting insects, and should be very grate- 

 ful if any readers of the magazine could give me a list of what may 

 be considered the most attractive plants, etc., to put down. In this 

 spot, Choerocampa celeriu and Deiupeia pulchella have been taken by the 

 late owner. — Ibid. 



