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hiclinitift were common, and Pieri>i rapae and Epinep]>ele titJwnita were 

 abundant. I was at Horsley this morning soon after six to try for 

 larviie of Theretra porcellus, but with no success. I found, however, 

 two full-fed larviB of S. ocellatiis. — W. J. Kaye, (P.E.S.), Caracas, 

 Ditton Hill, Surbiton. Aui/itst 22n<l. 



Food of the lary.e op the Coleopteron Cassida viridis. — On 

 August 12th, during one of the fitful gleams of the sun while on a 

 drive from Salzburg to visit the wonderful salt mines of Berchtes- 

 gaden and the weird Konigs See I had a sufficient glimpse of 

 Euvanessa antiopa to identify it as it dodged to and fro in front of the 

 horses. Instead of following the example of the average visitor and 

 be piloted by one of the native women out into the lake, I took a most 

 lovely wood path which led to the "coign of vantage" called the 

 Malerwinkel. All along the walk grew a large yellow-tiowered Salvia 

 of which everywhere the leaves were much riddled after the manner of 

 our British Coltsfoot by Porrittia (jalactodactyla. A search soon showed 

 abundance of larva; and pupa3 very similar to those I had years ago 

 found on thistle, and which turned out to be the young stages of a 

 species of Cassida. Some of these larvte and pup^ie were put into a tin 

 and brought away. To-day I find that several specimens of the common 

 Cassida viridis have emerged. I thought that possibly it might not 

 have been recorded that Salria h one of the food-plants of the Cassida. 

 — H. J. Turner. August 20th. 



Cetonia aurata in numbers. — On August 3rd, in the meadows at 

 the back of Cortina, on the slopes of the Sorapis, I saw several large 

 plants of a very beautiful globular headed thistle. On close approach 

 the capitulum of each flower head was found to be attacked by one or 

 more fine specimens of the beautiful Cetonia aurata. The specimens, 

 of which I took about a dozen, seemed somewhat larger than the 

 specimens one is familiar with as having been taken in England. — 

 H. J. Turner. August 20th. 



Nests of Hymenoptera. — On August 4th, while on a drive from 

 Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the Dolomites, to Pieve di Cadore, to visit the 

 birthplace of the painter Titian, taking advantage of the driver's halt 

 to refresh his horse (?), at one of the small road-side villages on the 

 southern slopes of the Antelao below the scene of the disastrous land- 

 slip of 1816, I found, on the very exposed face of a rough stone 

 wall, the nest of a wasp, possibly that of a Polistes. The nest was 

 attached by its pedicel, and must inevitably have been destroyed by the 

 driving storms to which the district is subject at times. None of the 

 cells were occupied. This reminds me that some three or four years 

 ago, while going through the churchyard at Grindelwald, I saw the nest 

 of another species of Hymenoptera on the exposed face of a memorial 

 of rough untrimmed stone. The nest was of mud, and in both colour 

 and texture so exactly resembled the rough stone that it would not 

 have been seen but for the activity of the makers. The nest, too, 

 faced the mid-day sun, and must also have been liable to suft'er from 

 drenching rain, but of course, being sessile, would not be so easily 

 swept away as in the former case, where the nest itself was frail and, 

 in addition, attached to the stone only by a slender pedicel. — H. J. 

 Turner. 



Butterflies drinking. — On the morning of August 5th, I took a 

 ramble from Cortina to Tre Croci up the Bigontina. During the 



