NOTES ON COLLECTING. 157 



referred to Mannerheim's anfiidatns, of which Mr. Newbery kindly 

 lent me an authenticated type for comparison.— Ibid. 



Nebria gyllknhali, Sch., var. rufescens, STRffiM. (arctica, Dj.), in 

 THE Northumberland and Durham district, etc. — Perhaps a few 

 records of this variety, lately introduced to the British Catalogue by 

 Mr. Donisthorpe {l^nt. Record, April, 1905), will not be out of place. 

 It has occurred to me singly, four times in the Derwent Valley during 

 the last three years ; thrice by the river-side above Winlaton Mill, 

 and once in Gibside. Two examples are in Bold's collection, one 

 from Skiddaw (Cumberland), June, 1857, and the other evidently 

 local ; whilst in the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, is an example taken 

 in the Ayrshire area. It does not seem to be by any means common. 

 — Ibid. 



laOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Egglaying of Nemeobius lucina. — ?\e)iieubiuti lucina is said by most 

 authorities to deposit its ova on both the upper- and undersides of 

 cowslip and primrose. I, each year, obtain by searching, numbers of 

 its eggs, and during my collecting existence must have found several 

 thousands, yet, although cowslip grows side by side and is practically 

 as common as primrose in its localities, I have never yet seen a single 

 egg on Priiinda veris, although I regularly look for it, and up to now 

 have not seen one on the upperside of a leaf. — H. Wood, 9, Church 

 Street, Ashford, Kent. May 1th, 1905. 



Abundance of Hippotion celerio, Phryxus livornica, etc., near 

 Cairo. — This year I have had very little time to collect, but on the 

 16th and 17th of this month, at the Barrage, near Cairo, Hippotion 

 celerio, and still more Phryxus livornica, swarmed, and I picked up 

 worn Anthncharis g.a. glance and Parnara mathias. In the desert 

 earlier, February 28th to March 28th, I got a good, though short, 

 series of Melitaea descrticola, the larva of which is uncommonly like the 

 description of that of 21. didyuia, and it feeds on Linaria, sp. ? — P. P. 

 Graves, Turf Club, Cairo. Ajrril 21st, 1905. 



Anthrocera haberhaueri in Jebel-Barouk. — The Anthrocerid, 

 mentioned by Mr. Graves {antea, p. 123), and which he sent me to 

 name, proves to be Anthrocera haberhaueri. — J. W. Tutt. 



Early Spring Lepidoptera in North Durham. — I commenced 

 work in the first week in March, hunting for night-feeding larvae, and 

 was surprised to find that they were well advanced. This made me 

 work diligently, as I especially wanted larvte of Xylophasia rurea for a 

 friend. This larvse is very uncertain in its appearance. In 1902, it 

 was entirely absent, as I find no mention of it in my notes. In 1903, 

 on the contrary, one could have collected two or three hundred in an 

 evening. In 1904, again, I could only find five larv^, when I wanted 

 a number for a correspondent, but this year I have managed, in four 

 evenings' search, to secure about 300. Equally interesting are my 

 notes on A', hepatica. For A', hepatica this locality, I believe, is the 

 furthest north locality in England, and I am inclined to think this 

 species is becoming more abundant here. We got five larvte in 1902, 

 seven in 1903, thirteen in 1904, and this year thirty, of which I took 

 thirteen. These figures are the combined " take " of two of us. To 

 secure this larva one needs to be astir early in March, for it pupates 



