158 [July, 



Cornwall. — A note appeared in Science Gossip of January, 1R93, mentioning 

 the occurrence of specimens as late as 1891 (Lucas, Brit. Butterflies). 



Dorsetshire. — Glanvilles Wootton, sparingly ; last taken by J. C. Dale on 

 June 10th, 1815. 



Devonshire.— Sec Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiii, pp. 256, 277. 

 Somersetshire.— Langport, in June, 1833, W. Paul ■ Clevedon, A. E. Hudd 

 (Newman's Butterflies). 



Gloucestersh irk. —Near Bristol, in plenty, Capt. Blomer, in 1831 ; also in 

 1871 and 1872, J. Merrin. 



MoNMOUTnsniRE, Herefordshire, and Glamorganshire.— See Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., vol. xxiii, p. 219. A note appeared in the Entomologist for 1895 (vol. xxviii), 

 p. 19), respecting the finding of larvas and imagines in Monmouthshire in 1894! 



North Wales, Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire. — See 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiv, p. 39. Evesham, in Worcestershire, is also given in 

 Morris's Butterflies. 



Berkshire. — Enborne, J. C. Dale, 1807 to 1810 ; Burghfield, near Reading, 

 Rev. C. X. Bird, 1834. 



Bedfordshire. — Near Bedford, Rev. Dr. Abbott, 1799 ; from one pupa he 

 bred twenty ichneumons. 



Huntingdonshire. — Whittlcsea Merc and Monk's Wood, on July 4th and 

 6th, 1833, in great plenty, J. F. Stephens (Entom. Mag., vol. i) j Monk's Wood, 

 plentifully on June 3rd, 1811, IT. Doubleday. 



Northamptonshire. — Barnwell Wold, 1852, &c.,Rev. W. Bree (Zoologist, vol. 

 x, p. 2351). See also Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiii, p. 218. 



Norfolk and Suffolk arc merely given as counties for it in Curtis' Brit. 

 Ent., but probably correctly, as Mr. Curtis was a native of Norfolk, and in the early 

 days of Ray, Moses Harris, and Lewin, it was considered too common a species to 

 give localities for. Indeed, in his " Hints to Proprietors of Orchards," published in 

 London in 1816, Salisbury considers it a common garden insect, and states that "it 

 commits great destruction every spring, not only to the apple trees, but other kinds 

 of fruit trees ; it is very subject to the attacks of the ichneumon flies." 



GHanvilles Wootton, Dorset : 

 April, 1902. 



Notes on tioo British Satvflies. — 



Pachj/protasiv antennata, King.- — 1 have very seldoni seen this species in 

 British collections, but Miss E. Chawner tells me it is quite common at Lyndhurst, 

 and she has kindly supplied me with a number of specimens of both sexes bred by 

 herself this year and last. Some of the insects were quite freshly killed, and one 

 actually alive, when she gave them to me ; and I was surprised to find their colour, 

 in this condition, quite different from that which they afterwards assume by fading, 

 and which is attributed to them in all descriptions known to me. When absolutely 

 fresh P. antennata has the costa and stigma of a rich and vivid green, though paler 

 in fact, but for its slender shape and long antennae it might be mistaken for a highly 



