186 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



occurrence of this species in Lewisham, on Eiionymiis japojiicus. I 

 have been on the look-out (without searching) for it again this year, 

 but have never seen a trace of its webs till this morning, when I 

 noticed some of the bushes in the gardens in Torridon Road, almost 

 covered with them. This afternoon I observed that almost every bush 

 in Wisteria Road and Gilmore Road is similarly covered, and the 

 larvfe therein of very considerable size. Of course, they must have 

 been some days reaching their present conspicuous stage, but it seems 

 remarkable that I should not have noticed them before. Their webs 

 are most unsightly, and the species is here fast becoming on their 

 adopted foodplant a veritable plague. — A. M. Cochrane, Lewisham. 

 June 10th, 1909. 



Phyexus LivoRxicA AT CARLISLE. — I havc just seeu a fine specimen 

 of this moth which was taken at rest in a busy part of Carlisle by Mr. 

 J. R. Dalton, a voung and keen collector, on April 26th last. — F. H. 

 Day, F.E.S., 26^, Currock Terrace, Carhsle. Mcv/ 2Gth, 1909. 



Early' brood of Agriades coridon on the Riviera. — Whilst 

 walking from Cavalaire to Le Canadel, some few miles to the east of 

 Hyeres, on May 6th, I met at intervals with a fair number of speci- 

 mens of A. coridon of both sexes, the majority being by no means 

 fresh. As I have also taken this species quite fresh, but very small, 

 in the neighbourhood of Florence (which is a little further north) in 

 September, I have no doubt that, in these latitudes, A. coridon is not 

 only double- but triple-brooded. These early specimens are of a 

 darker, more leaden, blue than the type, and have the characteristic 

 dark and heavily marked underside of the Riviera race. — George 

 Wheeler, M.A., F.E.S., Briarfield, Guildford. June 2nd, 1909. 



Notes on butterflies. — Pijrameis cardui. — Some years ago my 

 wife found a few larvae on the top of the Las Vegas Range, New 

 Mexico, at an altitude of a little over 11000 ft. One of these gave an 

 imago, which is unusually small (expanse Slmm.) and dark, the dark 

 colour on the iipperside of the hindwings being especially increased 

 and suffused. It does not amount to a distinct aberration, but it 

 shows just the features one might have expected in a specimen from 

 such an altitude. Anfi/nnis nitocris var. nii/racaerult>a. — This splendid 

 insect has the least range of any butterfly known to me, amounting 

 apparently to only a few square miles, within which it is very 

 abundant. This is in part of the Sapello Canon, and in the Rociada 

 valley over the hill, on the slope of the Las Vegas Range, New Mexico. 

 The Rociada locality is now first reported ; my wife and I found it 

 there in quantity one August 8th. Other lepidoptera obtained at the 

 same time and place were Colias euri/theuic, Kuranesaa antiopa, Anosia 

 2)le.cippu>i, Natlialis iole, Satyrns charon, Heliothia ari)ii(/era, and 

 Deilepltila lineata, a very plebeian collection. At Beulah, in the Sapello 

 Canon, my wife found a magnificent female (ab. rufescens, nov.), in 

 which the broad, light marginal areas are strongly suffused with the 

 red colour of the male. — T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Colorado. 



Abundance of lepidoptera and lepidopterous laev^. — I was 

 much interested in our Editor's note in this month's Ent. Becord re 

 theabundance of larvfeonoaks, etc. On May 31st, I took out my beating- 

 tray for a day's beating in a locality near here, where probably no 

 entomologist's foot ever strays except my own. I found the oaks 

 fairly cleared of leaves in many instances, and showers of larvfe of 



