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is distributed over the greater part of the Continent, and its range extends 

 into northern and central Asia, but it is always rare and, I believe, occurs 

 merely sporadically. Very little is known of its habits. According to Fieber, 

 it is found in dry, grassy, sunny places, but Amyot and Serville say that it 

 occurs in forests. Some larvae which I have lately received from India, of 

 Reduviidae belong to allied genera, have been thickly covered with sand and 

 clay, and this seems to imply a burrowing habit ; if Pygolampis has similar 

 habits, its not having been met with during so long a series of years would be 

 less inexplicable ; such habits would also accord with the method of occurrence 

 of the first specimen. Still, this is only conjecture. In this connexion it may be 

 mentioned that the figures given of this species in both Saunders' " Hemiptera- 

 Heteroptera of the British Islands," and Douglas and Scott's " British Hemi- 

 ptera " are those of the ? , which is curious, seeing that the original specimen 

 is said to have been a $ . There is some confusion also in the text of Douglas 

 and Scott's work. The authors say that " according to Fieber," the abdomen 

 of the $ ends with two obtuse plates : this is an error. Fieber's words, " After 

 gestutzt, in zwei stumpfe Lappen endend," refer to the $ and not to the ? , of 

 which he says merely "After Kegelfbrmig." The description of the $ genital 

 segments, moreover, is not reconcilable with the real form of those parts. 

 Saunders, again, says, "I do not know the female," and yet this is the sex 

 figured in his work. One would imagine, therefore, that the original specimen 

 must have been really a ? , though mistaken for the opposite sex. — E. A. Butler, 

 56, Cecile Park, Crouch End, N. : June 8th, 1914. 



Vanessa antiopa in Berks. — While motoring through the Royal Military 

 College ground at Sandhurst this afternoon, I saw what can only have been 

 a specimen of the " Camberwell Beauty " (Vanessa antiopa). It flew — somewhat 

 leisurely — for some distance in front of the car, at a height of about six feet 

 from the ground. Seen from behind it looked almost black, but showed a 

 purplish colour as we passed it. Momentarily forgetting where I was, I 

 mentally put it down as a large female of Hypolimnas bolina—SL common road- 

 side butterfly in Ceylon. Sandhurst College is situated in the southernmost 

 corner of Berkshire, at a point where three counties meet. It is quite possible 

 that this same individual may have been observed and recorded in Berkshire, 

 Hants, and Surrey, within the course of a few hours. — E. Ernest Green, Cam- 

 berley, Surrey: May 29th, 1914. 



" Entomology, with special reference to its Biological and Economic 

 Aspects," by Justus Watson Folsom, Sc.D. (Harvard), second revised edition 

 with 4 plates and 304 text-figures : pp. vi + 402 : Philadelphia, P. Blakestones, 

 Son & Co., 1913. 



A second revised edition of this useful work will doubtless be appreciated by 

 entomologists generally, more particularly by our American cousins, an entire 



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