1902.] 87 



elsewhere, and think these facts are a very strong confirmation of Dr. Renter's 

 opinion that iiestita is the developed form of ('-album. — E. A. Newbery, 12, 

 Churchill Road, N.W. : March Uth, 1902. 



[The above note contains very strong evidence in favour of Salda vestila being 

 the developed form of C-album. I have always been against this association, on 

 account of the very different appearance of the elytra in the two forms ; in vestita 

 these are dull all over, ami there is an absence of the velvety black patches observable 

 in C-album, as well as of the whiter markings, and notably of the little round white 

 spot near the apex of the corium ; the sides of the pronotum are also more rounded. 

 I feel, however, that Dr. Renter's views have turned out correct, and that in future 

 iiestita should be treated as the macropterous form of C-album in our lists. — 

 Edward Saunders.] 



A few Odonata from the Chamonix Valley. — As very little has been published 

 concerning the Dragon-flies of the Mont Blanc district, it may be of use to enume- 

 rate six species taken at Chamonix (over 3200 feet) by in}' friend Mr. R. W. Lloyd 

 between July 15th to 27th, 1901 : — 



Sympetrum striolatum, Clip. ; Orthetrum brunneum, Fonsc., apparently very 

 common ; JEsch. cyanea, Mull. ; Calopteryx splendens, Harris ; Pyrrhosoma nym- 

 phula. Sulz. ; Agrion merruriale, Clip. — ■ R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : 

 February 23rd, 1902. 



Sphinx convolvuli, L., at Merlon (Norfolk), 1901.— On September 20th, 1901, 

 Lord Walsingham's gardener brought me a specimen of convolvuli which he had 

 caught in a greenhouse in the garden here. Although I have never taken this 

 species myself, I have not regarded it as a rare species — boys used to bring me 

 specimens at Hitchin, and Lord Walsingham and myself saw several specimens 

 flying round a high electric light at the Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington. — 

 John Hartley Durhant, Merton Hall, Thetford : February 25th, 1902. 



Papilio machaon, L., at Fly in 1881. — On June 16th, 1881, I saw a specimen 

 of machaon at Ely, near the stone wall in the meadow beyond the Vineyard. It 

 flew over the wall, much to my disgust, and did not return, although I waited for it 

 for hours. I need hardly add that this was the first time I had seen a real live 

 Swallow-tail! I am aware that the Rev. Gr. H. Raynor tried to establish machaon 

 at the Rosewell Pits, Ely, in 1881, having assisted him in collecting ova at Wicken, 

 but my Swallow-tail had no connection with these ova, the earliest of which, accor- 

 ding to my notes, were collected June 24th, 1881.— Id. : February 25th, 1902. 



The hibernating stage of Coremia didymata, L. — In part lxxxviii of Mr. 

 Barrett's " Lepidopfera of the British Islands," just to hand to-day, the author 

 remarks (p. 177) that he " can obtain no information as to the young state of this 

 larva, but it must surely hatch from the egg in autumn— probably August," &c. I 

 am able to supply the missing information : ova laid on August 10th, 1899, hatched 

 on February 26th, 1900, and I have at the present time apparently healthy hiber- 

 nating ova which were deposited on July 21st, 1901.— Louis B. Prout, 246, 

 Richmond Road, N.E. : March 1th, 1902. 



