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to show that malvoides invariably affects marshy ground, whereas 

 this pecuHarity has not been noticed in malvce. I can supple- 

 ment these with two further observations of my own to the same 

 effect. My Biarritz malvoides were taken flying singly in the 

 marshland outside that town ; and my Berisal example (as far 

 as I recollect) in a damp upland pasture near to a mountain 

 stream. 



As a result of these discoveries, coupled with Dr. Eeverdin's 

 further discovery (based also on the character of the male appen- 

 dages) that Hespcriamelotis, Duponchel (= hypoleiicos, Lederer), 

 is a good species, it follows that some modification and amend- 

 ment is required in Tutt's exhaustive account of Ilesperia vialvce 

 ('British Butterflies,' vol. i. pp. 221-255). His var. pyrenaica 

 (p. 225), by reason of the date of captures made on the Pyrenees- 

 Orientales, must be referred as a var. of malvoides — unless, as I 

 suspect, it be malvoides itself. His var. alpina, for the same 

 reason, is probably the mountain malvoides of Switzerland, and 

 belongs, therefore, to that species. 



Lastly, though I observe that Tutt cites and describes var. 

 melotis, Dup., and var. hypoleiicos, Lederer, as two separate 

 varieties of H. malvce — the former occurring at Locarno — Dr. 

 Eeverdin (and other authors) regard the names as synonyms 

 of what now appear to be one and the same true species, viz. 

 melotis. 



Mr. J. Edwards, of Colesborne, having kindly determined for 

 me the specific identity of //. armoricaiius, Obthr., with H. alvcas, 

 despite certain pronounced superficial differences, my abstract 

 of the classification of this particular group should now read as 

 follows {cf. Entom. xliii. p. 308) : — 



To the vars. of H. alveus add {g) var. armoricanus, Obthr. 

 For H. FniTiLLUM, Rbr., read H. malvoides, Elw. & Edw. 



(a) ? var. alpiua, Tutt. 

 (6) ? var. pyrenaica, Tutt. 

 and add H. malv^, L. 



(a) var. (et ab.*) australis, Tutt. 

 H. melotis, Dup. 



PUPATION OF LEPIDOPTEROUS LARV^ IN GLASS 



TUBES. 



By Rupert Stenton. 



It may not be generally known that lepidopterous larvte will 

 pupate in glass tubes plugged with cotton-wool, and as far as I 



* I notice on p. 224, * British Butterflies,' vol. i., Tutt gives full varietal 

 rank to australis, u. var., but on p. 225 he calls a form from Digne ab. (et 

 var.), and another from Draguignan, a few miles away, abi simiily. 



