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V. — Snaefell. 



* Pterostichus vUreus, DJ. ; *Bradycellu!i harpallnus, Dj. ; Notio2}hilus aqua- 

 ticus, L. ; N. palustris, Duft. ; *Patrobus ansimilis, Chaud., in great numbers ; 

 *Ocyusa incrassata, Muls. ; *Homalota eremita, Rye, abundant ; *Arpediuni 

 hrachypterum, Gr., common ; *Scijdmfenus scufellarit, Miill., also at the Curragh ; 

 *Byrrhus piliila, L. ; Aphodius lapponum, OryW. ; Corymhites cupreus, F., and var. 

 seruginosus, F. ; * Otiorrhynchus mauriis, Gjll., rare. 



VI. — Bradda Head. 



Notiophilus substrlatus, Wat. ; * Homalota gregaria, Er. ; *H. nigra, Kr. ; 

 *n. cauta, Er. ; *Olophrum piceum, Gjll. ; *Athous vittatus, F., under stones ; 

 *Dolopius marginatus, L., under stones; *Apion loli, TL'wh. ; *Acalles ptinoides, 

 Marsh., from dead heather. 



Estyn, Chester : 



September, 1905. 



LYCMNA AEGUS, Kiebt, vab. HYPOCHIONA, Ramb., ON THE 

 NORTH DOWNS. 



BY A. H. JONES, F. E. S. 



On July 16th last I captured on the North Downs several small 

 specimens of a Lyccena which T at once recognised as different to the 

 usual form of L. argus {wgon) from Surrey and the New Forest. On 

 comparing them with my series of var. argyrognovion, Berg., from 

 Sierra in the Ehone Valley, I found they agreed so closely as to lead 

 me to suppose they were that species ; on submitting them, however, 

 to Dr. T. A. Chapman he pronounced them, upon examinatiou of the 

 genitalia, to be L. argus, and were the variety Jiypochiona , Ramb. 



Dr. Staudinger, in his Catalogue, gives the distribution of this 

 form "Andalusia, Greece." I have taken it at Digne, and this year 

 at Montserrat in Spain ; the occurrence of this southern form in 

 England is interesting, and I have no doubt that Entomologists who 

 have collected this insect on the chalk downs between Cuxton and 

 Shoreham in Kent will find numerous examples in their series — the 

 type also occurs there. 



The var. hypochiona is larger, the under-side whitish-grey, and 

 the spots more clearly defined than in the type. 



Shrublands, Eltham : 



October 6th, 1905, 



