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capture to the local naturalist at Digne, Mr. Cote Victor, he at 

 once pronounced it to be honoratii, which, he added, he had never 

 taken hinipelf on the wing. During the time I was at Digne i 

 succeeded, with the aid of Mr. Rowland-Brown's valuable notes pub- 

 lished in this magazine in 1900, in capturing a total of 800 odd speci- 

 mens including all the species on Mr. Rowland-Brown's list for the same 

 period, with the exception of Khujia (Thecla) spini, Nonhnannia ['IJierla) 

 ilicis, and Mdananiia (jalathea var. procicia which had not emerged. 

 On the other hand, Krebia erias were fairly plentiful and some in very 

 good condition. I succeeded in getting fine long series, in good 

 condition, of Hiichloe eitp/unioides, LinienitiH caiailla, Cnpido nuin'H 

 (Hebriis), (ilaucopsiichc ci/llartoi, Af/riades thetia (fine large form), Aporia 

 crataei/i, Xlclitaea cinxia, M. didynia, M. aurinia var. provinciaUs, (Jolias 

 liyalc, Lnweia alciphron var. i/ordiiis, Nciiieohius lucina, Papilio machaim, 

 lirenthis dia, IphicUdcs podalin'ns, Ayriaden coridon, Nisoniadi's tat/es, 

 Hesperia molvae, Brenthh nelene, B. eiiphwsyne, hhichloe cardaiiihws, 

 Pieris brassicaf, P. napi, P. rapae, Paranje iiioera, besides many other 

 butterflies in smaller numbers. Gonepteryx cleopatra was scarce and I 

 only succeeded in getting one male and four females. Out of thirteen 

 days, ten were perfect, and three sunless and thundery. — E. B. Ashby, 

 33, Park Road, Whitton, Middlesex. 



A day's lepidopterolouy near Scutari. — The following butterflies 

 were seen by me in July, 1909, and June 6th, 1910, in a large rough 

 garden at Erenkeui, some Ave and half miles from Scutari on the 

 Asiatic side of the Bosphorus — Iphididea podalirius a few, I'apiUo 

 ))iachaon, twice observed, Fieris bra^sicae, P. rapae, Pontia daplidicf 

 common, Colias edum, Gonepteryx rhamni very common, Pyraweix 

 cardtti, i'. atalanta a few, Pnlyyonia egea common, I'anessa io, one 

 seen, FJiivanesaa antiopa one seen, Epincplwlt' jmtina a few, Hatyrits 

 hennione two seen, vii. 09, Libythea celtis several seen, 30. vi. 10, Cliryao- 

 phaniis thevaaitwn a few, tiutiiicia p/daeas very common, KliKiia apini 

 occasional specimens, worn at the end of June, Polyonnnatm icanis 

 very common, Aricia astrarche common, Celastrina aryioUia very 

 common in July, Adopaea jdara (thaiiiiias) one seen, Erynnix alccar 

 worn in late June. Dryas pandora is not uncommon at Therapia, on 

 the European side of the Bosphorus, and in the park attached to 

 Yildiz Kiosk, the palace of the Sultan Abdulhamid, in the northern 

 suburb of Constantinople. I saw a worn specimen of this butterfly also 

 at Dibra, a wild town some 8000 feet above sea level in Central Albania, 

 in October, 1909. A few days earlier Pa/>ilio machaun had been 

 common at Elbassan, about 1200 feet above sea level, in West Central 

 Albania. — Philip P. Graves, 1, Lauriston Road, Wimbledon. Jiili/ 

 20th, 1910. 



Lepidoptera at ragwort bloom in Richmond Park. — Whilst 

 cycling through Richmond Park on the morning of August 12th, I 

 noticed that a mass of ragwort in full bloom was attracting a good 

 number of insects, although on inspection I found that only three 

 species of lepidoptera were represented. Of these the commonest was 

 lluinicia p/daeas, both sexes of which were flying in numbers, the 

 majority being in good condition. Scarcely inferior in point of 

 numbers was < 'haraeas yraviinis, though all appeared to be J s, and, 

 without exception, were in a very worn state. The third species, 

 Ilydroecia nictitans, was not so common, l)ut it was in fairly fresh 



