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experimente voudrait bien expliquer ce fait ? ' Nous croyons pouvoir, 

 sans recourir aux luiiiieres d'un naturaliste experimente, donner a 

 notre honorable correspondant la raison de ce phenomene. Nous 

 somiues arrives a la saison climaterique on le hanneton termme son 

 existence aerienne et tombe comme pluie a I'etat de cadavre, partout 

 ou il se trouve, sur les routes et dans les cours d'eau. Le Ehone 

 valaisau en charrie d'enormes quantites ; arrives au lac au Bouveret, 

 il n'y a rien d'extraordinaire a ce qu'on les voie rejeter sur le bord des 

 millions d'elytres qui n'ont pas coule a fond ou continue a descendre 

 le fil de I'eau."— G. 0. Sloper, F.E.S., Hotel Beau-Site, Aigle. June 



2Srd, 1903. -o . • . T 1 



CoLEOPTERA NEAR PETERBOROUGH. — Eetumuig trom liOudon on 

 June 25th, I slept the night at Peterborough, and managed to get a 

 little collecting on that evening after dinner, and again on the morn- 

 ing of the 26th, before catching the train for Edinburgh. The weather 

 was hot and close, and insects numerous, and a note of the better 

 captures may be of interest. By sweeping the herbage under the 

 hedges in a narrow lane I got Clytn^ arictis, L. ; Telephonis litnratus, 

 F- AnthocotiiHS fasciatus, L. ; Pasytes pliuitheuii, Mull.; Priobinm 

 castanetim, F. ; Homaliuw Morale, Pk. ; and hosts of Anaspls, PJnjllo- 

 bius &c. ' On the morning of the 26th I beat oft" aspen, fairly com- 

 monly, Curijwbites mctallicKS, Pk. ; and swept up off flowers and grass 

 at the 'side of a wood Cbjtm arietis, L. ; C. vnjsticas, L. ; A/japanthia 

 Uneatocollu, Don. ; Toxotns meridianm, L. ; ^Stranijalia vtelanura, L. ; 

 Aqrilas latkornu, 111. ; Malthinus fasciatus. Fall. ; Anobiuiii fahicorne, 

 Sturm. ; Oedemera nobilu, Scop, (exceedingly abundant) ; O. lurida, 

 Marsh.;' Mordellistena abdominalis, F. ; Chnjwmela varians, F. ; Taiiy- 

 mecuspalliatHs,F.; Hifpem i,uirina, F. ; Orobitis cyaneus, L. ; Orchestcs 

 stvnna, Genu. ; Apkm' pisi, F. ; A. pomonae, F. ; and many others. 

 ■ As the morning sun was very powerful after a heavy night dew, the 

 beetles were exceedingly active, taking to wing out of the net with 

 surprising rapidity, and it was difficult to secure such insects as Mor- 

 dellUtena'^ Of the longicorns, Stran<ialia melanvra was by far the 

 quickest in flight and in getting into flight from rest ; on this occasion 

 it was much quicker than Liytns arictis. During a couple of days at 

 Brockenhurst, at Whitsuntide, I had been much struck with the 

 rapid flight of Clytiis arictis : it was as speedy as any wasp, and quite 

 as quicir in rising into flight from any flower or piece of timber on 

 which it was resting. In this excited state the resemblance of the 

 beetle to a wasp is most striking, and, in fact, I feel confident that an 

 ordinary observer would have declared they were wasps.— T. Hudson 

 Beaee, F.E.S., 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh. 



^jg^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



A lepidopterological note from the Rhone valley.— The 

 weather up to June 23rd was cold and wet, almost every day, and up 

 to that date there had been no Melitaca parthmie nor M. athalia at 

 Martigny, yet, strangely enough, I'oli/miniiatiiH amanda was nearly over, 

 and Arqynnis daphne out quite strongly. I took a very large ? (Jhryso- 

 ),hanHs\iiv. (lordius at Martigny a few days earlier, and Mr. A\ heeler 

 took another of the same size. In answer to your queries I find that 

 my earliest capture of Cnpido sebrm (a 3 ) this year was on May 3rd, 

 my earliest of JSomiadea cyllarm (also a <? ) was on May 4th. I saw a 



