50 THE kntomologist's record. 



J^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



The Prohibition of the Capture of Paunassius apollo. — I have 

 just read with great interest Mr. Gilhiier's notes on the prohibition of 

 the capture of l\trnassiiis apolli) by several Municipalities in Germany. 

 (By the way, Cothen is in the Duchy of Anhalt, in the North, and not 

 in Hesse Darmstadt, which is my own native country). German 

 entomologists are naturally delighted that this glorious Alpine butterfly 

 has established itself in various localities in Germany. On my last 

 visit to my native town, Biedenkopf (Hesse), in 1909, my nephew, 

 William Werner (since dead), had just returned from Winningen on 

 the Mosel, near that river's confluence with the Rhine at Coblentz. 

 He found the butterfly there in fair numbers, but also several collectors 

 principally from Frankfort-on-Maine. Can you wonder that they took 

 all they could get ? and is it not the same here ? If it were not so, 

 might we not still boast of our Chrysophanm dii^par, besides many 

 others ? That this prohibition will be the means of preserving the 

 species I have no doubt, although it cannot be considered absolutely 

 effective. I notice tbat one of the varieties mentioned is given as 

 " i-iwiini/ensis." Might that not refer to the specimens captured at the 

 above mentioned place ? Perhaps you may remember that on behalf 

 of my late nephew, some years ago, I exhibited at our South London 

 Society two lovely varieties of Kuvanessa antiopa (now in the Rothschild 

 collection at Tring) where the blue spots on the margin were com- 

 pletely obliterated by the broad cream-coloured band overlapping. — J. 

 Jaeger, 65, St. Quentin's Avenue, N. Kensington. 



Greek Lepidoptera in April, 1911.- — ^In the Ent. Eeconl, xxiv., 

 p. 59, we published a short paper with the above title. The few 

 Geometridae we took at that time in Greece have lately been examined 

 by Mr. L. B. Prout, in whose collection they now remain. The 

 following corrections and amplifications of the above paper should be 

 noted : — April 12th. — The Acidalia is A. filicata, Hb. April 18th. — 

 GnopJios ohscHvata should stand as G. ainbit/iiata var, vepretaria, Spr. 

 Gnophos variefiata [^ at light) should be G. mucidaria, Hb. Larentia 

 salicata was correctly identified. Mr. Prout informs us that the end of 

 March and early April is quite the regular time for it in South Europe 

 {in litt.). April 2Gth. — Of course "Stick insect" is a mistake for 

 " Praying Mantid." April 27th. — The Cidaria from Tatoi is Tliera 

 variata, Schiff. (" The darkest specimen I possess." — L.B.P.). Since 

 the original paper was written Dr. Chapman has rediscovered Agriades 

 thersite.H (Boisd. MSS.). He has seen our Greek specimens of 

 " Pnhjowniatus icartis" and divides them as under. April 21st. — 

 Epidaurus. 2 ^ s A. thersites. April 22nd. — Tiryns. ^ P. icanis 

 (not icarinits as misstated in former paper). April 27th. — Athens. 

 3' P. icarns. It will be noted that we did not take P. icanis var. 

 icarinns at all. It is to be presumed that former Greek records of this 

 variety refer to A. thersites. — P. A. Buxton (P.E.S.) and D. A. J. 

 Buxton, Fairhill, Tonbridge. 



®^URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The President of the Entomological Society of London, Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, has chosen as his Vice-Presidents for the year, Dr. H. 

 Eltringham, the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and the Rev. George Wheeler. 



