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fresh, beautiful, and brightly coloured specimen of (Ecophora grandis. It was quiet 

 in the net and bpx, and has taken no harm with the journey home. — J. Sang, 181, 

 Horninglow Street, Burton-on-Trent : June 4:th, 1883. 



Insects from the East Coast of Greenland. — Mr. William Scoresby, Jun., in his 

 " Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery, &c.," Edinb., 1823, 8vo, 

 states, p. 423, the presence of Col. Palceno and Fap. {Argynnis) Dia on Jameson's 

 Land at Cape Lister and Cape Hope, on the northern shore of Scoreby Sound, 

 70° 30' Lat., July 24th. Both occurred in great numbers. He mentions also (p. 

 188) the occurrence of bees and mosquitoes. Prof. Jameson and Mr. James Wilson 

 give, pp. 424 — 428, a more detailed account of the butterflies. Curiously enough 

 these very interesting statements of insects of the eastern shores of Greenland, 

 which are probably the only ones known, though quoted in Lacoi-daire's Introd., vol. 

 ii, p. 603, have escaped Mr. Kirby (Richardson's work) and all later publications 

 about the Arctic fauna. The same statements have been repeated by Mr. J. Wilson, 

 in the Family Library, No. 53 (I can only consult the American edit.. New York, 

 1836), in Mr. P. F. Tytler's historical view of the progress of discovery on the 

 more northern coasts of America, with sketches of the Nat. Hist, by J. Wilson, p. 

 305. 



The hope to find perhaps figures of the two butterflies in Mr. J. Wilson's 

 Illustrations of Zoology, Edinb., 1828 — 31, for which I have noted in my Bibliotheea 

 two Lepidoptera on pi. 4 and 28 (I cannot compare this book now), was destroyed 

 by the record in Ferussac's Bull., vol. xxvi, p. 287, stating that these Lepidoptera 

 are Noctua {Strix) Erebus and Pap. Jasius. If, by a lucky chance, the two Papilios 

 from Mr. Scoresby should be still in existence in Edinburgh, a detailed scientific 

 examination would be of great interest. It is possible that the so-called C. Palano 

 could be the Colias Hecla, var. glacialis, described by McLach., Linn. Soc. Joiu-n., 

 vol. xiv, p. 108, but C. Palceno is very common in Labrador, and could as well go 

 higher up in Greenland, as it is a decidedly Arctic species. I remark that the food- 

 plant of its caterpillar, Vaccinitim tiUginosum, is represented in the flora of this part 

 of Greenland. In Scoresby's Journal, p. 410, in the list of plants. Dr. Hooker gives 

 No. 13, Vaccinium puhescens, Hornem., which he considers to be a dwarf state of 

 V. uliginosum. — H. A. Hagen, Cambridge, Mass. : Mai/ oth, 1883. 



Note on the appearance of $ and ? of Formica rufa. — Seeing it generally stated 

 that the winged examples of this ant usually " come out " in July and August, I beg 

 to say that this year, at Guestling, the S began to appear on the 21st May, and ? a 

 week later.— E. P. Collett, St. Leonards-on-Sea : 11th June, 1883. 



A very small nest of Vespa vulgaris. — I have recently had brought to me from 

 the neighbourhood of Bromley, a very pretty little nest of Vespa vulgaris. It has 

 been, unfortunately, a good deal broken from handling, but is of a rounded, semi- 

 conical shape, with a round, central, apical aperture, and its widest diameter is 

 only about an inch and three-quarters. It was found suspended under the 

 roof of an outhouse. I believe such a locality is not a very unusual one for 

 V. vulgaris to choose, but the very small size of the nest certainly surprised me. 

 Shortly after receiving it, two worker-wasps emerged from the cells near the 



