1819.] 83 



all hut extcnninated. T have tried the lavvae ow scveml foods, hut none 

 is eaten with such avidity as Anclnisa sfiiipervirens. It seems peculiar 

 that this species never, so far as I know, strayed from the small cove in 

 which it had heen established so man}^ years. One might suppose that 

 adjoining and similar situations would have suited it equally well. But 

 such was apparently not the case. 



It will he noticed that I have omitted all mention of butter- 

 flies in this paper. There ai'O two reasons for this omission : fii'st, 

 because I was usually busy during the daytime with my own work 

 and thus had little time to give them; second, that though my friend 

 was a man of leisure and did make excursions after butterflies, when I 

 occasionally accompanied him, we never met with anything of sufficient 

 interest to record from otir neighbourhood. 1 must mention, however, one 

 exception. In the year 1898 an artist friend was out sketching one day and 

 noticed an abundance of some Fritillary that was flying about near him. 

 Knowing I was interested in the subject, he told me about this, with 

 the result that we went in search and soon discovered a very strong 

 brood of Melifaea atlndia. They were positively in hundreds, and we 

 captured as many as we Avanted — rather a lot, I fear. Since then 

 atlialia has been taken in the same spot, but never in the numbers that 

 appeared in 1898. 



Space will not permit any detailed reference to many other inte- 

 resting species. Indeed, an accovmt of twenty-five years' collecting in 

 any one place would easily fill a small volume. ISTo reference either has 

 been made to '• dusking '' for Geometrae, at which ray friend was vei-y 

 successful, or to pupa-digging, which I pursued with satisfactory results 

 during the dead months for some years. Ivy-bloom has also been 

 omitted, as, with few exceptions, we found that most of the frequenters 

 tif this flower also came to sugar, and were far more easily taken thus. 



Bnnk House, Dawlish, S. Devon. 

 Odohcr 1918. 



THE LAEVA AND PUPA OF TAENIORHYNCHVS KICHIARDII Fi< 

 (DIPTEEA, CULICIDAE). 



BY F. W. EDWAHDS, B.A., P.E.S. 



Mosquito-larvae of the genera Taeniorliijnchus {Muusonia) and 

 Mnnsouloid.es have now been known for some time from North 

 and South America and West Africa, but up to the present the early 

 stages of the European species (T. ricliiarJii) have not been described. 



