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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



of these a specimen of Passalaecus mnnilicornis, Dhlb., emerged. For 

 identifj'ing them I am indebted to theEev. F. D. Morice, who tells me 

 he is sure of the genera and does not feel much doubt about the species, 

 though they suffered somewhat owing to his absencn in Algeria. It 

 will be remembered that in the April number Mr. Baj^nes published a 

 note of an ant Leptothorax neylanderi using an -old burrow of this 

 clearwing, — E. A. Cockayne, F.E.S., 16, Cambridge Square, London, 

 W. September lOt/i, 1911. 



PiERis RAP^. FEEDING WHILE PAIRED. — The other day while watching 

 some Pierids enjoying the flowers of a tea tree {Lijcimn chineme) I 

 noticed a male Fieris rapae, carrying a female, flitting from flower to 

 flower and thrusting its tongue into the blossoms just as the other 

 unencumbered specimens were doing. It behaved in this way for 

 some little time but at last settled down on a leaf where the pair 

 remained at rest as long as my observation lasted. During the flights 

 the female kept her wings closed but opened them once or twice after 

 the male had finally settled on the leaf. Of course she had no chance 

 of taking any refreshment. — Alfred Sich, F.E.S., Corney House, 

 Chiswick, W. Au(/i(st 30th, 1911. 



A VARIETY OF EucHLOE EUPHENOiDEs. — SoniG years ago, to be exact 

 1904, when in the company of Mr. Raine, at Carqueiranne, I captured 

 a very fine variety of this insect ; the outer border of the secondaries 

 was orange, the colour of the apical patch, which extended to a 

 variable distance up the nervures. Mr. Raine was unacquainted with 

 this variety, but on looking over my captures on my return to England 

 I found that six out of fourteen taken in the Hyeres district had more 

 or less orange scaling on the secondaries but nothing to the extent of 

 the one shown to Mr. Raine. Some time afterwards I obtained the 

 following information, which I may tabulate as follows : — 



Mr. Tutt's localities are as follows :- 



He notes "one or two strongly marked from Auribeau." What I wish 

 to ascertain is whether this variety is, as I suspect, induced by climate; 



