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of ova, is very long indeed for the size of the insect. In this position 

 I secured both specimens in a large glass- bottomed box ; by this time 

 the male had securely attached his organs to the female, and it then 

 loosened its hold with its legs, and the pair soon assumed the usual 

 end to end position. The box after this went into a special pocket for 

 further observation ; in well under ten minutes I took it out and found 

 both insects were free and the female running about in a very restless 

 manner. So restless was she that I separated them and found that 

 she had already begun to deposit her ova, dropping them singly and 

 quite haphazard as she ran about. This continued all day, and by the 

 next morning she had laid a considerable number and was quiet, 

 moving but little and only laying a very few eggs the next day. Later 

 on I was able to confirm this observation by a second pair, both sexes 

 acting in precisely the same manner. 



The ova at first were glossy cream colour, but after twenty-four 

 hours gradually darkened and became dark slate in hue, with the 

 same glossy surface. The first batch of ova I dispersed on the 

 mountain side, but the second I brought home with me, and they 

 hatched in about a month's time, producing little black larvae. I had 

 planted a good sized pot of grass, etc., for them, and expecting that 

 they would be root feeders, I turned them out on to this. I have 

 examined the pot once or twice, but can find none of them, so that 

 whether they all succumbed, or whether they went down to the roots 

 or inside the stems at the roots I do not know, but I am looking 

 forward to the time when I shall be able to examine the roots and see 

 whether any of them have lived through the winter or not. These 

 habits seemed to me so interesting that they ought to be recorded. 

 It is a species that is generally considered rare, but it was not so on 

 the somewhat bare slopes just below the summit of Canigou, and I 

 should think that it occurs throughout a large part of the high 

 altitudes of the Pyrenees, as both Mr. Eowland-Brown and I have 

 taken it in different localities above Gavarnie. — G. T. Bethune-Baker 

 (P.E.S.) 



:ig>OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Eakly appearance. — Yesterday, January 9th, T saw Hibernia leu- 

 cophai'aria on an oak trunk on Wimbledon Common. — J. Alderson. 



Records. — I noticed in the January number of the F/iit<)iiiolo(/isfs 

 Ui'cord a note by Mr. P. A. Buxton on UnpenadeH taenialis and H. 

 (■(istaestritjalh. The former I have taken in Epping Forest from the 

 beginning of July to the end, and the latter in the Norfolk Broads, as 

 well as in Wicken Fen, from early June to late August.— H. M. 

 Edelsten (F.E.S.), Enfield, Middlesex. 



The Season 1912. — I am afraid some of the remarks of Mr. T. H, 

 L. Grosvenor (vol. xxiv., p. 213, etc.) are not quite in accord with my 

 experience. In my garden at Horley, Surrey, Pijraineis cardiri was 

 quite plentiful last August, and I can also speak for Tilgate Forest, 

 the Worth section, where I foupd it in very fair numbers. In the 

 latter locality Ai'i/eria ciiliciforinis was fairly swarming in certain parts, 

 and I bred about 50 imagines from three or four stumps which I cut 

 off in April. On one of my visits to the place I counted as many as 

 two dozen empty pupa-cases projecting from one stump alone. Acijeria 



