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must have seen some three dozen, and I netted a short series of the 

 best, although nearly all were quite fresh. Everything is wonderfully 

 forward, and some of the B. eii/iJu-osyiw showed considerable signs of 

 wear, having evidently been out for some time.- I was intent this day 

 on butterflies and flowers, and only pursued such moths as forced 

 themselves on my attention. Foremost of these was Eiih/pe {Melanippe) 

 haatata, just out and easy to catch, as it flew lower than usual. 



I netted eighteen beauties, and could have taken many more. 

 They were so plentiful that I twice had two and once three in my net 

 at once. Minoa eiiphorbiata was also in evidence in one clearing, and 

 many common "waves" and "carpets" were well out. already 

 including a quantity of Melanippe niontanata. 



One Drepana hanuila and one Spilonoma mendica came to the net, 

 and one worn Lobophora carpinata and a fine fresh Melanthia alhiciUata 

 taken from tree trunks. Even Hypocrita {EucJielia) jacohaeae was 

 already out, and flew up as I walked through a meadow. 



L. sinapifi was sfcill flying at half-past four, when I left the 

 locality for my long walk back, and K. cardaviines was on the wing for 

 some time longer by the roadsides. 



I have purposely refrained from being too explicit as to the locality, 

 as sinapis is a butterfly so poorly equipped by nature for self-preservation, 

 that a few industrious workers could soon clear it out. It is a great 

 pleasure to see it again so near home, and to find that it still has at 

 least one comparative stronghold in the S.E. counties. 



The abundance and forwardness of Spring lepidoptera is borne out 

 by the re-appearance after many years of E. cardamines and the 

 quantities of Celastrina ai-ginlits in our Highgate gardens. Heliaca 

 tenehrata has occurred in numbers on the Highgate Golf Course, little 

 more than five miles from Charing Cross, and yesterday at Sandwich, 

 while following competitors in the Amateur Golf Championship, the. 

 insect life on the course was most striking. 



The most abundant species were Coenonympha pawphilns, Asjrilates- 

 citraria, Mesotype {lineolata) and Cranihi(s chrysojiiichelliis, the latter- 

 three frequently worrying the players on the putting greens, Avhen 

 addressing the ball. The nettles round the Golf house were eaten tO' 

 shreds by A;/lais urticae larvae and altogether the signs of the times 

 point to a great butterfly year in store for us. — Russeil James, 3, 

 Bloomfield Road, Highgate. May 22?u/, 1914. 



(gfURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Mr. J. Edwards, Colesborne, Cheltenham, will be grateful ta 

 Entomologists who have collected Coleoptera or Hemiptera in Norfolk 

 during the past five years for particulars of their captures for present 

 publication. 



On January 26th, of this year there died at Moulin, in his 70th 

 year, Joseph Ernest Olivier, Editor of the Revue Scientific du Bow- 

 honnais et dn Centre de la France, which he founded in 1888. He was 

 a distinguished specialist of Lampyridae, and well-known to his English 

 colleagues, especially to those whose acquaintances he made at the 

 Congresses of Brussels and Oxford. He was the grandson of the: 

 famous A. G. Olivier, of the Encyclopedie methodique. 



