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In the liopo of rearing another generation this year, I turned down four 

 (2 ^ (J , 2 $ ? ) of the bred moths among some growing plants of P. amculare, and 

 placed the flowerpot in a moderately warm, though unheated, greenhouse, with the 

 happy result that another small brood of larvae, varying in size from about half- 

 grown down to extremely small, is now feeding up. I have little doubt that 

 " forcing " will have to be resorted to, in order to make the moths emerge this 

 autumn. Such a full account of the larvte and their habits, quoted from the "En- 

 tomologist's Weekly Intelligencer," will be found in Newman's " British Moths," 

 that any further notes would be superfluous.— Id. : September IMh, 1899. 



Argynnis Pales, var., at the Oorner Grat. — Our Riffelalp captures in the way 

 of butterflies did not include any novelties, excepting a very striking variety of 

 Argynnis Pales, which was taken by Mr. Lemann near the Gorner Grat at over 

 10,000 feet. Tliis specimen, slightly crippled, instead of having the ground colour 

 of a bright fulvous with black tracery, as described in Kane's " European Butter- 

 flies," was of quite a dusky brown hue, and the under-side with spots confluent 

 as in Polyommatus Sippothoe ab. conjluens. A. Pales is at all times an exceedingly 

 variable species, but this specimen seemed quite to stand by itself as a remarkable 

 aberration. — R. W. Lloyd, Thurleigh Eoad, Balham : October, 1899. 



Dragon-flies at the Riffelalp. — At the end of July and during the first week in 

 August Mr. F. C. Lemann and I were staying at the Riffelalp Hotel, Zermatt, with 

 the object of collecting butterflies, and in the hope of securing a few of the high 

 mountain species of dragon-flies. On the whole the weather was excellent, but as 

 regards dragon-flies we were not fortunate, as we did not see more than three or four 

 specimens when collecting at an altitude of over 9,000 feet, and these only during 

 the last few days of our stay. Although there were plenty of small lakes on the 

 Gornergrat side, we saw no dragon-flies there ; this I believe was owing to the fact 

 that all the lakes were formed from glacier water, and had practically no vegetation 

 growing in them. On the Matterhorn side we saw three or four specimens at the 

 Schwarzsee one very fine hot day. Mr. Lemann got Sympetrum flaveolum on the 

 hillside near tlie lake, while at a smaller lake a little further on I saw a specimen of 

 Mschna juncea settle under the bank, and was fortunate enough to secure it. The 

 Schwarzsee has a little rank vegetation growing in it, and I noticed some water 

 beetles, so no doubt the dragon-fly larvae are able to pick up a living there. A third 

 specimen I saw at the same place was considerably larger than S. flaveolum, and had 

 a bright red body, but unfortunately I failed to secure it. The contrast between 

 the larger number of dragon-flies I saw on almost the only fine day I had last year 

 in Lapland and the scarcity at Zermatt was very striking, as even on the low ground 

 they were scarce and almost impossible to catch. — Id. 



CcBcilius atriconiis, 2IcLach., near Ipswieh.--1 sent Mr. McLachlan a Psocid 

 swept in a small marshy wood at Bramford, near Ipswich, on October 11th, which 

 appeared very distinct to my eye on account of its long neck, and he tells me it 

 is CcEcilius atricornis, McL., and which he has taken only once by sweeping on the 

 banks of the Thames, close to Chertsey, that it seems to be especially fond of damp 

 situations, and had been found upon plants actually growing in the water. I see it 



