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sylla scojmJifer, Rotliscliild. In our previous paper in Parasito- 

 logj,3 Xenopsylla brasiliensis, Baker, was treated as a synonym of 

 cheopis, Rothschild, but as we have already published,* after critically 

 examining Mr. Baker's types of this species, it is evident that it is a 

 distinct species, and the name must be retained for the species we 

 named X. vigettis.^ 



Arundel House, 



Kensino^ton Palace Gardens : 

 Sept. 12th, 1911. 



Bledius crassicoUis, Lac, at Wicken Fen. — As this species has only hitherto 

 been recorded from coast localities — Deal and Eye — it is perhaps worth re- 

 cording that in April, 1910, I took a specimen in sedge refuse at Wicken Fen ; 

 Mr. W. E. Sharp informs me that he has also taken the species this summer at 

 the same locality. On the Continent it is recorded from hilly and woody 

 localities, on the banks of streams and in marshes, so that it will probably 

 turn up in other localities in this country. — T. Hudson Beare, Edinburgh : 

 September, 1911. 



Limenitis sihylla double-brooded. — To-day, while I was looking for lai"va3 

 among young aspens in a wood not far from here, I was much surprised at 

 seeing Limenitis sibylla settle on a bramble leaf close to me I watched it for 

 some moments while it gently raised and lowered its wings, and then it floated 

 away gracefviUy to another leaf. This, I thought, could hardly be a retarded 

 specimen, it was far too late for that ; it must be one of a second brood. I 

 went on, and, in the course of an hoiir, saw six or seven more, all quite fresh 

 and exceptionally fine. Of course, these were all individuals of a partial second 

 brood, the result of the abnormally hot dry summer ; and I believe it is an 

 unprecedented event, for I cannot find any records of a second brood in any of 

 my Entomological books, though I have not been tlirough all the back volumes 

 of the Magazines. I should like to know if any one else has ever met with, or 

 heard of, a second brood. It does not appear to be double-brooded on the 

 Continent, though its near ally, Camilla, is itndoubtedly so in the South. I 

 was in the wood on several occasions during August and the beginning of this 

 month, but there were none about then, so those I saw to-day can have only 

 recently emerged. The fii-st specimen this year was seen on June lltli. — 

 Gbrvase F. Mathew, Dovercourt, Essex : September 19th, 1911. 



1 Ai-b. u. d. Kais. Gesundheitsamte, Vol. xxxiii, p. !jf>9. (1910). 



- Joiiriiiilof Hygiene, Vol. xi, No. 1, p. 129. (1911). 



s Parasitology, Vol. 1, p. 42. (19U8). 



* Novit. /oolog, Vol. xvi, p. 332. (1909). 



5 Novit. Zoolog. Vol. xvi, p. .53 (PI. viii, Figs, 3 and 4). (1909). 



