72 THE entomologist's record. 



the form of B. selene which Mr. Lowe has taken there and named var. 

 rastiliana. Like Mr. Lowe, I was led into the error, by the superficial 

 resemblance of the specimens to B. hecate, which, being a widely 

 spread Spanish species, one would think should be found at La 

 Granja ; they resemble some Spanish examples of that species I have 

 from the Albarracin Sierra much more closely than they do specimens 

 from Eastern Europe.— W. G. Sheldon, Youlgreave, South Croydon. 

 Februari/ 5t/t., 1910. 



Aberrations of Anthrocerids. — At the meeting of the South 

 London Entomological Society, held in December, 1909, I exhibited 

 five peculiar specimens of Anthrocera Jilipendidae, Ijinn., viz.: — <J ex 

 collected cocoon, June, Lewes, <? ditto, Winchester, end of July; 

 $ ditto, Clandon, mid-August ; <? captured Clandon, mid-August — 

 all, especially the last, with grey ground, pale pink spots, etc., 

 and whitish cilia to all wings ; also 3 captured Winchester, mid- July, 

 all spots small, the 6th (divided by nervure) especially so ; hindwings 

 with indigo-blue border, l-5mm. wide ; all the above taken on dry 

 chalk slopes. I also exhibited, from a Sussex locality, Anthrocera 

 hippocrepidis, Stphs., a specimen with brownish border, 1mm. wide to 

 hindwings, the 5th spot large squarish, budding at the lower external 

 angle, looking like on 6th spot, but apparently too high and too far 

 from margin for the normal 6th spot. Anthrocera trifolii. — (1) Pale 

 cherry-red and dark grey-green in colour, with whitish cilia to hind- 

 wings ; captured in Sussex. (2) Two series of dwarfs from two 

 Sussex localities some miles apart, the first locality giving only small 

 examples — 23mm. -27mm., with occasional specimens up to 30mm. ; 

 the second locality producing examples grading from 22mm. to 34mm. 

 — G. Hodgson, M.D., Stoneleigh, Redhill, Surrey. January SQth, 1910. 



:]^OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Egg of Argynnis nitocris var. nigroc.erulea. — Among some old 

 papers, I have come across my wife's unpublished notes on the eggs of 

 Anjy^inis nitocris var. niyrocaerulea (original description of this race, 

 Kntom. News, vol. xi., p. 622, 1900). 1 transcribe them just as 

 originally written : — 



"August 24th. — Confined females [from Beulah, New Mexico] over violets. 



August 25th. — Saw female in act of placing eggs ; glue placed on surface, then 

 egg: [egg slightly over Inim. high and broad], cone-shaped, flattened on top, 

 bearing from fifteen to twenty ridges, each ridge marked with from ten to twenty 

 cross-lines ; colour when first laid light yellow. Eggs laid on violet leaves, lower and 

 upper sides, and petiole, also on grass leaves, dried stems, and screen on top of cage. 



August 28th. — Eggs laid on 24th look brown, examined with lens, the brown 

 colour found to be due to irregular small brown spots. A yellow line extended 

 around the cone about half way from top to bottom." — Wilmatte P. Cockerell. 



This may be worth printing in Ent. Bceord, especially if you can 

 add any comments showing how all this compares with other species. 

 A. nitocris is one of a group of very striking species, with dark females. 

 I remember that we compared the egg with that of A. enrynome, Edw., 

 and found it decidedly different. — (Prof.) Theo. D. A. Cockerell, 908, 

 10, W. Boulder, Colorado. January 6th, 1910. 



Ants and LvCiENiD larv^.— On June 26th of last summer, near 

 Crevola, on a bank where Seduru album and S. telephium grow, I 

 picked up an apparently full-fed Lycaenid larva, which I took to be 



