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one is able to take almost every day some specimens. The fact that 

 leads me to believe that H. alreua and ('. aUeof ought to be found in 

 England is that the English Hesperiids are really the same species as 

 the Breton ones, except ( '. almie already noticed, thtcmpterns nmr- 

 j)/ifus, an erratic species, common in the tall herbage of the forest of 

 Kennes, the forest of Paimpont, the woods and ditches of certain 

 fields at Mesneuf, but ■which is absent in many French localities, and is 

 a species that I have never supposed to live in England. 



The following list of the other species of Hesperiids, found in the 

 neighljourhood of Rennes and the coast of Cancale to St. Malo, 

 should be carefully compared with the list of Hesperiids found in 

 England. These are : — (1) ihatiaos tatjrs, (2) Hcsjieria */;aZirtt' and ab. 

 taras, {'A) II. olrcKs, (4) Ailojxiea lincola, (5) A. tkaninas, (6) A. 

 actat'vii, (7) Aiiiiiailfs conniia, (8) A. si/lcanii.'i, (9) ( 'artcron'fi/ialns 

 palai'iiKDi. The first eight species live on the coast and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rennes ; the 9th, ' . iKtlaeinon, is only found in the 

 forests, it is on the wing now (early -lune), and is extremely abundazit 

 in the forest of Rennes. Some Hesperiids, common over a great part 

 of France, /'.,'/., //. caythaini, II. sao, and //. -si-rratular, have not yet 

 been found in Rretagne. They are not likely to be found in England. 

 (\(rr/ian)ilii.'< alccac Hies in April, but occurs more abundantly in 

 August. This also is a littoral species in Jiretagne, and 1 have taken 

 it many times on the lawn of my garden at Cancale. I feel con- 

 vinced that one should find it in Jersey and Guernsey, and that some 

 day it will be found on the south coast of England, like Callimorpka 

 heva, a most abundant species in Bretagne, and one that migration, 

 aided by southern winds, has comparatively recently introduced into 

 England. 



I thought this note might prove interesting as drawing attention 

 to the need of a comparison being made between the English and 

 Breton Hesperiids. 



(^^ OLEOPTERA. 



SyNONVMICAL note on the LaTHKOBJLM ATKll'AEPE A\D L. PUNCXA- 



TUM OF THE British List. — In the Knt. Mo. Ma;/., 1902, p. 88, Dr. 

 Sharp writes of iMthnilninn atri/mlpe : "The insect is at present rare 

 to an extent that is quite surprising, and it would be well to Avait for 

 more information before attempting a final conclusion on the matter, 

 though the existence of an unnamed species in the British list seems 

 rather an anomaly now-a-days." I am glad to say that 1 have been able, 

 with the kind assistance of M. Fauvel, to clear the matter up. Mr. F. 

 H. Day, having sent me specimens of the Cumberland atn'/xil/H' to 

 examine, 1 took them to the Museum to compare, and I found them to 

 be a distinct species, though certainly not the utrijialjic of Scriba, as 

 on looking up the original description it was evident that he refers to 

 a species more like tcniniiatidii, whereas these specimens come nearer to 

 pHiutatiiin. I therefore sent them, together with a specimen of the 

 latter, to M. Fauvel, who tells me they are the innictatinn, Zett., and 

 our jiiinrtatiini is the funilnin, Steph. The synonymy is as follows — 



1. Lathrob'mm intnctuluni, Zett. 



-ctlerKlcdd, iiye ("Ent. Ann.," 187"J, p. 25). 

 (itripalpe, Brit. Cat., )iec Scriba. 



2, Lathivbiuiit I'oriilum, tSteph. 



puHctatum, Brit. Cat., Er., Fowler, ncc Zett. 



