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8.5 p.m. — No special notice of queen being taken ; any passing ant 

 examines her carefully, but without hostility ; no worker has saluted. 



8.10 p.m. — A worker holding queen by antenna. 



8.15 p.m. — The queen apparently fully accepted, as several 

 workers are around her, and saluting her. Other workers in the near 

 neighbourhood also giving the usual saluting jerk. 



September 30th. — Changed the colony to a new and larger " Craw- 

 ley " nest ; the workers dragged the queen in by her jaws, showing the 

 greatest solicitude for her. 



November 11th. — For some time the queen has been surrounded by 

 a cluster of workers, whilst another cluster surround their own larvae, 

 of which there are now 80 to a 100, the eggs having hatched. 



(The species of the above ants was very kindly determined for me 

 by Mr. W. C. Crawley, and, at the time of writing, the nest is in a 

 thoroughly satisfactory condition, February 15th, 1914). — D. W. 

 PiNKNEY, 8, Burgess Hill, Finchley Koad, N.W. 



:ig^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



C. EDUSA AB. VELATA, Ragusa.— In working out my 1913 captures of 

 the above species with Seitz Pala arctic BntterfHes, Vol. i., I came across 

 the description of the above aberration on page 68 which reads : — "ab. 

 vclata, Ragusa, from Sicily, are specimens in which the black marginal 

 band is shaded with greenish scaling, appearing covered with a veil." 

 As this so admirably describes the condition of freshly emerged J C. 

 cdusa, I think this aberrational name should be dropped. I took a 

 number of <? specimens in this condition last year at Eastbourne, and 

 in a long series bred by Mr. E. P. Sharp all the 3 s had this scahng on 

 the marginal band of the forewings only. — C. W. Colthrup. 



Records of Coleoptera for 1913.^ — ^The following record of 

 Coleoptera captured during the last year may be of interest. At Lyme 

 Regis, in January, 1913, I took a single specimen of Leptacinm parum- 

 pnnctatus in stack refuse. At Crynant, Glamorgan, in March, were 

 found Paract/uiKs nu/ro-aencus, liliizopliaijas cribratus and Gyropliaena 

 strktula. In April on Llangenydd Burrows in the Gower peninsula of 

 Glamorgan, I took Paclujlopus maritiums, Psammobiiis\snlcicolli!< and 

 three specimens of Philonthns jndlus. Mr. Tomlin informs me that 

 he had previously taken this last species at Candleston in the same 

 county. At Rhosilli, also in the Gower, I found Deliphrum tectiun and 

 Caulotnjpis aeneopiceus in April, In Barrowdale, Cumberland, in July, 

 were found Me(jacronus cingidatiis, Geodromicus nigrita, Cantharis 

 paludosHs, Bha(/onycha unicolor and Lbnnoharis T-album. At Butter- 

 mere, Cumberland, in August, I took single specimens of Clinocara 

 tetratoiiia and I'ternstichiis parioirpunctatus. I may add that in 1914 I 

 have taken Stenolophus vespertiniis, Beiiibidiuiii clarhi, Pterostichiisyiaciiis 

 and 'lac/njusa atra at Hendon and PnaiiimnecJius hipunctatiin, Hippuri- 

 pliila iiKjdeeri and TJiryo(jenes scirrliosus at Rickmansworth. — J, W. 

 Allen. 



The Season. — I saw in Reigate to-day, a real summer day after 

 a wintry spell, a Vanessa io disporting itself, and a Pieris rapae $ on 

 the wing, as well as a humble-bee, Bombiis terrcstris, rifling the flowers 

 of blackthorn, which she clearly believed to be open, though it was 

 difficult to agree with her. — T. A. Chapman. March, dlst, 1914. 



