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typical specimens, perhaps a trifle larger than those from Dauphine 

 and the Pyrenees. I remained in the high mountains till the 19th, 

 by which time E. uti/gne was nearly over. I then turned westward and 

 encamped much lower down and further west, near a village called 

 Posada de Valdeon, in a beautiful well-wooded valley, still on the 

 south side of the mountains. Here I remained four days, and saw no 

 Erebias, though it was an excellent place for butterflies, it was too 

 low down for most of that family. On July 22nd I started westward 

 across low-wooded hills, forming spurs of the high mountains, 

 to the gorge of the Sella. On this day's march, at a height of 

 from 3000ft. to 3500ft., I saw several large Erebias, quite fresh out. 

 I caught six or seven specimens, all males, and considered them to be 

 E. aetldops, and therefore only kept a couple. But when I returned 

 home and had them set, they turned out to be very large specimens of 

 E. stijiine. I now possess only one of these specimens, either Mr. 

 Elwes or Dr. Chapman had the other. My specimen measures 2in. 

 across the wings, and is very like E. aethiops, though, on examination, 

 it is evidently a very large E. atijiine. I greatly regret not having 

 made the discovery when I took the insect, as it would be most 

 interesting to possess a good series, and particularly some fema.les, of 

 which I never saw one, nor did I see the Erebia again on my return 

 journey along the northern side of the range. Perhaps some enter- 

 prising entomologist may explore the Picos district this summer, and 

 ascertain whether the big, low-country E. stygne which I took on 

 July 22nd is a second brood or not. — Mary de la B. Nicholl, P.E.S., 

 Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend. December 29th, 1903. 



Habits of Eupithecia pygm^ata. — This species is very local in 

 Lincolnshire, but plentiful where it does occur. It flies along the 

 tops of hedges about four feet from the ground in company with 

 Heliaca tenebrata. Time of flight 4.45 p.m. -6 p.m., but most 

 numerous between 5 p.m. -5. 80 p.m. I have only found it along 

 hedges bordering two fields, although the foodplant grows all over the 

 neighbourhood. In 1900 I took 63 between June 7th and June 20th ; 

 in 1901, 79 between May 23rd and June 5th. I have only taken two 

 specimens at mid-day flying in sunshine and settling on low flowers. — 

 R. Cassal, M.D., Ballaugh, Isle of Man. December 22nd, 1903. 



NoNAGRiA NEURicA IN LINCOLNSHIRE. — It may be well to record that 

 I took one specimen of Nonaiiria neurica at Althorpe (Lincolnshire) on 

 September 3rd, 1900. There were several flying about over reeds at 

 dusk, but I could only secure this one, having no net with me, and I 

 have not visited the locality since. — Ibid. 



Ephippiphora GRAND.EVANA IN THE IsLE OF Man. — I captured One 

 specimen of this local species on the banks of the Santon River, 

 somewhere between Santon station and Ballasalla, about midday on 

 June 12th, 1902.— Ibid. 



Amphidasys betularia var. doubledayaria in THE Isle of Man. — 

 I took this variety (a $ ) in cop. with an ordinary 3' ^- betularia on 

 June4th, 1902, inLaxey glen gardens. The 5 started ovipositing on June 

 oth. The ova hatched June 29th. I can find no record of the date when 

 the larvte pupated, but I forced about 60 pupas in February, 1903, and, of 

 the imagines that emerged, about 12 were of the do able clay aria form and 

 the rest typical A. betularia. There were no intermediate forms. I also 

 took a cT just emerged in the same locality on June 12th, 1902, and 

 another in Ballaugh Curragh at light on July 12th, 1902. — Ibid. 



