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that was needed, and a net is a poor tool in a crevasse. Pieris napi var. 

 hryoniae, Poli/omiiiatiis donzelii, P. astrarche ab. aljnna and Ad'<cita 

 lieri/on, were included in the Eggishorn bag, and no doubt another 

 week or so would have added largely to the number of species on the 

 wing, as we were early for such an altitude. Between Fieschaud Brigue, 

 Pnntia dapUdicc, Melitaca pJioehc, Thi/itieliriis tliaitiuas, T. lineola and Par- 

 nasfiiidi apolln were taken, and one or two Satyrus artaea var. cordula, but 

 a high wind made the latter difficult to catch. A most enjoyable holiday 

 ended at Brigue station, and to anyone requiring absolute quiet and 

 rest, undisturbed by even a cow- bell, the Riederalp and Hotel -Jungfrau 

 can be strongly recommended. I am indebted to the kindness of 

 friends for the naming of some of the more difficult species. If anyone 

 can inform me where a copy of Kane's Handbook can be obtained, I 

 shall be duly grateful. — Douglas H. Pearson, Chilwell House, Chilwell, 

 Notts. September 21.s^ 1904. 



Sphinx ligustri in the London district. — In the Ent. tiec., xvi., 

 p. 266, Mr. C. Pickett notes Sphinx li(jHi>tri at Raynes Park, and 

 remarks on the nearness of the locality to London. Reference to one 

 of the much-abused lists in Ihitisli Lepidoptera, iv., pp. 327-328, shows 

 a large number of London localities — "Hackney, Holloway, Stoke 

 Newington, Chiswick, Bedford Park, Chelsea, Tottenham, Ealing, 

 Shepherd's Bush, Kilburn, St. John's Wood, Hammersmith, Fulham. 

 Hyde Park (the Marble Arch), Bethnal Green." On the other side of 

 the water — " Rotherhithe, Brockley, Lewisham, Dulwich, Sydenham, 

 &c.," are well in the London district, and so are "Wandsworth and 

 Streatham." No doubt the old London localities are being destroyed 

 by building operations, but it would appear that Sphin.r liifiistn is still 

 well distributed in the London area. — J. W. Tutt. 



Lepidoptera in Kincardineshire. — The season here has proved to 

 be fairly good. Sugar worked very well during July, but. during 

 August it had no attraction whatever. I spent these two months, or 

 rather the evenings of them, at Blackball, on the western border of 

 Kincardineshire. The district is thickly wooded, chiefly with birch, 

 Scots fir, and oak. During the time we were there the weather was 

 perfect, there was only one evening that would have been considered 

 too wet for collecting. I had little time for day-work, consequently 

 got few butterflies, although a second brood of Picrix napi produced 

 some nice dark aberrations among the females. A second brood of P. 

 rapae also showed a few strikingly yellow females. Brenthis sclene, 

 abundant ; Ariiynni>< ai/laia, common, females very dark. Anthrocera 

 liiipendidae occurred on a moor near the bridge of Bogendreep, away 

 from the coast ; this insect with us is certainly extremely local. 

 Hepialm hectm swarmed among the bracken ; the males varied con- 

 siderably in the number, size and shape of the golden spots. H. 

 velleda abundant, and the ab. carnns occurred occasionally. Trirhinra 

 crataei/i, a few full-fed larvte on heather ; larva; of Lasioca)iipa ijuerciiK 

 var. eallnnae was also common on the moors and on the hills up to 

 nearly 2000ft. Larva? of Satuniia pamnia also occurred with those of 

 I J. var. eallnnae, but they were not so common. Among the Geometrids 

 the following were the chief captures: — Kllopia fasciaria, common in 

 all the firwoods, not variable ; Ampliidasi/s hetidaria, one ? at rest, on 

 the banks of the Dee, a nice intermediate between type and the ab. 

 donbledai/aria : Poannia repandata, a long series of grey forms 



