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ZicRONA c.ERULEA, LiNN., IN LANCASHIRE.— On Aiigust 25th I re- 

 ceived from my friend, Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp, two perfect specimens 

 of this beautiful bug, which he had recently taken on heather on 

 Hampsfell, nearGrange-over-Sands. — Oscar Whittaker, 39, Clarendon 

 Koad, Whalley Range, Manchester. September 19th, 1904. 



Phryxus livornica, Esp., at Sandown. — ^I have recently had the 

 pleasure of seeing a beautiful, though slightly undersized, specimen of 

 P. livornica, which was bred by Mr. Taylor of Sandown, on August 

 31st. The larva was picked up in the neighbourhood five or six weeks 

 previously, and brought by its captor to Mr. Taylor. Unfortunately 

 he did not make any precise descripton of it, but it seemed to him — 

 from the meagre descriptions at his disposal — -to be nearest the larva 

 of Celerio (lallii, and he was rather expecting to breed that species. 

 When he told me about it on my arrival at Sandown on August 25th, 

 I suggested that the locality — right away from sandhills — seemed a 

 very unlikely one for Cf/allii, and I confess that I had some misgivings 

 as to whether it might not turn out to have been an aberrant larva of 

 some common species. Curiously, we did not think of P. lir(irmea,not- 

 withstanding that two imagines were recorded from Shanklin earlier 

 this season [Entom., xxxvii., p. 189), and the emergence of this rarity 

 from the pupa was a pleasant surprise to its owner. As so few seem 

 to breed in this country, I have thought it worth while to record it 

 fully. Unfortunately we do not know on what plant it had been feed- 

 ing. — Louis B. Prout. September, 1904. 



Value of English specimens of Lepidoptera. — Will you kindly 

 tell me the value of English specimens of Emumios autumnaria and 

 Callimorpha hera ! The latter I took in Gu.ernsey this year, and 

 having obtained ova from three females, I am rearing the larvfe, making 

 a detailed life-history of them with dates. As, on the advice of Mr. 

 Luff, of Guernsey, I am going to keep the larvae feeding in the winter, 

 the life-history will soon be completed. When it is I shall be very 

 pleased to send you a copy for publication if it would be of any use to 

 you. — M. Smith-Richards, Falconhurst, Maison Dieu Road, Dover. 

 September llth, 1904. 



Erebia goante and Satyrus dryas at Dover ! ! — -In September, 

 1902, I took a male and female of Erebia i/oante and one Satyrus dryas 

 in Langdon Hollow here at Dover. I sent them up to Messrs. Watkins 

 and Doncaster, who identified them. No one here can account for 

 their appearance, can you ? Can you also tell me if they are worth 

 much ? S. dryas is very battered, and E. yoante minus antenna;. — Ibid. 

 [We should be glad if any of our readers could inform our correspon- 

 ent of the value of English Ennomos autumnaria and Guernsey Calli- 

 morplia hera, although one suspects Messrs. Watkins and Doncaster 

 would be the best referees in this matter. Without wishing to throw 

 any doubt whatever on the bona fides of our correspondent, we must 

 express our unbounded astonishment at the capture of the Alpine 

 Erebia yoante and the central European Satyrus dryas at Dover. We 

 should be rather more surprised ourselves to see Erebia goante at Dover 

 than we should Parnassius apollo, which was once reported to have 

 been observed there ! ! We presume that Mr. Smith-Richards has either 

 made a mistake, or that someone just arrived home from the continent 

 liberated the specimens alive for Mr. Smith-Richards to catch. — Ed.] 



Note on reputed foodplants of Aciptilia pentad actyla, L. — On 



