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L. hybr. warburgi { = quercusx nieridiunalis). L. hybr. intermedia 

 (^ — siculaxmeridionalis). L. hybr. prouti (^siculaxguercm). L. hybr. 

 complexa [ = sicula x {inendionalis x vihurniy] , L. hybr. inversa 

 [=(nwridionalisxvibu7-ni) Xsicula] . L. hybr. complicata [— $ {dcula 

 X meridionalis) x 2 [{vieridionalis x vihurni) X {weridionalis x 

 viburni)] ] . 



Cross-pairings between Lasiocajipa quercCs and its vars. callunjE, 

 Palm., viburni, Gn., meridionalis, Tutt, and sicula, Staud. — On 

 referring to Mr. Warburg's and my own papers on this subject in the 

 present volume of The Record, I find that I have written that the 

 original cross-pairing which Mr. Warburg obtained in 1896 {antca, pp. 

 114, 237) was viburni x meridionalis which gives the impression that 

 the male parent was viburni, whereas it will be seen from Mr. 

 Warburg's paper that the male parents were meridionalis. I was 

 unaware when writing out my notes that Mr. Warburg had any record 

 as to which of the varieties the respective sexes belonged to. I ought, of 

 course, to have clearly stated this m my paper at the time, but instead 

 I wrote the names in the same order as I had used through my notes, 

 leaving my doubts about the sexes to be inferred from the fact that in 

 referring to the other crosses I had used the <? and 5 signs respect- 

 ively, and had not done so in regard to this one. — A. Bacot, Bow 

 House, ISi, Clapton Eoad, N.E. 



Pairing of Dimorpha versicolora. — On April 17th, 1901, 1 took two 

 5 Dimorpha versicolora and placed them without covering on a birch 

 bush (at 3.15 p.m.), one commenced calling at once, and, in ten minutes, 

 a (? was paired with her ; he came up against the wind, and hunted the 

 next bush all round, in a very excited way, but could not find her, he 

 then went back about 30 yards, and came up against the wind in almost 

 a direct line for the ? and paired directly, the other 5 did not com- 

 mence to call until4.50 p.m., when another <? came up in the same way 

 as the previous one, and paired directly. 1 cut the branches off and 

 put them into muslin bags, and carried them home about seven miles 

 on my bicycle, and they remained paired until about 8.30 a.m. the 

 next morning, I then placed the males into a cage with fresh females, 

 and they both paired again in less than fifteen minutes. I may add 

 that I saw several Macrothylacia rnbi flying at Bournemouth, on June 

 Gth, and on July 7th I saw Cosmotriche potatoria at light, at Beading. 

 — W. E. Butler, Hayling House, Oxford Eoad, Beading. September 

 Idth, 1901. 



Habits of certain butterflies when disturbed during copula- 

 tion. — I was interested in Mr. Tutt's note re male carrying female 

 Dryas papilla. As bearing on the subject the following will perhaps 

 be of interest. 1 find in my note-book, under date September 18th, 

 1900, " Saw a number of Fieris rapae, and also L'ohjonimatus icarus, 

 Hying in cop. In both cases the male carried the female when dis- 

 turbed."— C. W. CoLTHRUP, 127, Barry Eoad, East Dulwich. October 

 Idth, 1901. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Coleopterous notes for the autumn of 1900. — Pressure of work and 

 untavourable weather made my collecting in the autumn of 1900 very 

 poor in results, but a few notes of the more interesting captures may 



