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the following: — Harpalm caspius, Stev., at Portland; Caulotrypis 

 ameopiceus, Boh., Api<m urticarium, Hbst., Sphodrus leucopthalmus, L., 

 and Rhinocyllus latirostris, Latr., at Lulworth. — Ibid. 



J@10TES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Resting-habit of Agriopis aprilina. — I was surprised to see in the 

 current number of the Ent. Rec. that Mr. Colthrup and his naturalist 

 friends had never taken Agriopis aprilina at rest on tree-trunks. I 

 have done so occasionally in the Leith Hill and Cranleigh districts, in 

 the daytime, usually on oak-trees, and once on the bare smooth bark of a 

 beech tree, where the insect was sufficiently conspicuous, and usually 

 about five feet from the ground. — F. Pennington, 17, Hyde Park 

 Terrace, W. January 26th, 1907. 



Resting-place of Papilio machaon. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me where Papilio machaon rests at night, whether on trees, or 

 on the low herbage of the meadows ? M. Gillmer, Cothen, Anhalt, 

 Germany. Feb. 6th, 1907. [Certainly in Britain this species must 

 rest on the low herbage, the almost entire absence of trees in the 

 marshy localities where it is now most abundant, making this almost 

 a necessity, and our experience in France and Switzerland points in 

 the same direction. On the other hand, Iphidides podalirius loves the 

 trees, and our observation on the roosting-habit of this species (Ent. 

 Rec, ix., p. 81), has since been confirmed in other localities. We 

 should like to have information from those who have observed P. 

 machaon at rest. — -Ed.] 



Supposed absence of Callophrys rubi in some British Counties. — 

 I have been considerably slated at various times for my "locality" lists 

 in A Natural History of British Lepidoptera, but still I get wofully 

 puzzled sometimes over the distribution of our very commonest 

 species. I have just been working through that of Callophrys ritbi, 

 and it appears that there are many counties in England (as well as 

 Scotland and Ireland) where the species does not occur, although 

 common in the surrounding counties. Two in particular, strike one 

 as most strange, Bedfordshire and Leicestershire. Newman says that 

 in those counties where this species has not been observed "its absence 

 may be supposed to arise from want of observation." Is this true? 

 Are there no counties in which it does not occur ? Again, it is 

 unrecorded for Durham and Northumberland, yet it abounds in some 

 places in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmorland, and further north in 

 Perthshire, Argyleshire, etc. Why ? I should be very glad for any 

 details of the distribution of this, or other of our " hairstreaks." — 

 J. W. Tutt, 119, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



Hybernia defoliaria in January. — Referring to Mr. Raynor's note 

 on this subject (antea p. 46), it may be of interest to add, that I took 

 a fresh specimen of H. defoliaria $ at light at Wimbledon Common 

 on January 15th, 1907. — Raleigh Smallman, F.E.S., 6, Mostyn Terrace, 

 Eastbourne. February 11th, 1907. 



Pieris rap^e in February. — It may be interesting for you to know 

 that we found a specimen of Pieris rapa, in our kitchen to-day, quite 

 fresh, and evidently just emerged from the chrysalis. Is this not very 

 exceptional ?— Charles Newbery, 32, Annandale Road, East Green- 

 wich, S.E. February 16th, 1907. 



