NOTES ON COLLECTING RHOPALOCEEA AT HORLEY. 7 



September 7th, 1912. 



The magistrate at EichstJitt has issued a local police regulation 

 which imposes penalties on the capturing of the native kinds of 

 a]-olhi butterflies, the gathering of the pupfe and larvae, the sale or 

 despatch of these butterflies, their pupse or larvae. 



The President (Hiither) and the editor (Dr. Meyer) of the Inter- 

 national EntoiiioloffificJte Verein at Frankfort-on-Main have decided that 

 advertisements, in which those species in danger of extermination are 

 offered for sale, will not be accepted any more for the Inteniat. Ent. 

 Z'-itsclirift. This prohibition includes ajiollo from every German 

 locality, especially the varieties rinnif^eufiis, bartJtoloniaeiis, vielliciiliis, 

 from Alsace, also Mantis relif/iosa from Alsace, and Arctia maculosa 

 from Vienna. 



February 22nd, 1913. 



Under the above date, Gg. Ivneidl of Regensburg issued an appeal 

 in which he asks entomologists and collectors (expressly those in 

 Bavaria) for their support in coming to an understanding over the 

 following prohibition. The by-law against collecting the larvfe and 

 catching the butterfly of apollo has been in force in the Begensburg 

 district since July, 1912. Unfortunately this by-law can in many 

 ways be evaded, since licences to collect for scientific purposes are 

 issued by the authorities, the number of specimens collected cannot be 

 controlled. During night work (which, for instance, is much carried 

 on at Regensburg) this species, especially the butterfly in sleep, may 

 be taken, so that in this way the by-law is really one-sided. I shall 

 endeavour to have a strict general bij-laiv carried through in this way, 

 that /Vr)»f April to the middle of July no collector ma;/ enter those spaces 

 where Apollo occurs, and also that dnriny this period ni(fht irork on the 

 vioiintaiii slopes be strictbj prohibited. In this way onlj' might the 

 extermination of this beautiful insect be avoided. 



[Prof. Gillmer concludes with the Appeal of the Swiss Ent. Ass. 

 on behalf of several rare species in that country, a copy of which 

 has already appeared, vol. xxv., p. 168. — H.J.T.] 



Notes on Collecting Rhopalocera in Horley (Surrey) district for 



1912 and 1913. 



By H. BAKER SLY, F.E.S. 

 As I have not kept any special notes I can only give a list of the 

 more noteworthy specimens which I have taken during the last two 

 seasons. Gonepfenj.r rhamni was one of the first butterflies seen by 

 me in 1912, when I saw it in a wood near Three Bridges on March 

 26th. I did not net the insect, but left it to lay its brood of eggs and 

 was rewarded by finding quite a number of larvfe during June and 

 July. The insect was again fairly plentiful in the same wood during 

 the following August. On April 27th, 1912, I took the first Eitchloe 

 cardamines, a fine J , and soon after that date they were to be seen in 

 plenty along the lanes, being in fine condition up till the latter part of 

 May. Along with E. cardamines there were plenty of the first brood of 

 Pieris napi, some being very strongly marked on the undersides. 



