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M. Eondou, of Gedre, has recorded Gar du Pau as the only locahty 

 in the Pyrenees for H. onopordi so far. Gavarnie is, of course, very 

 much higlier. — B. G. S. Warren; Innis, Claygate, March 21st, 

 1912. 



Note on Aporophyla nigra. — Tutt's ' Lepidopterist's Hand- 

 book ' gives ova of Aporo2)hyla nigra as hatching six weeks after 

 deposition (i.e. end of October), and elsewhere I have seen the larval 

 period described as extending from October to May. That such is 

 not always the case I am in a position to prove. Two batches of ova 

 were obtained from female A. nigra, taken on sugar about the middle 

 of September last year. The egg when laid was a uniform orange- 

 yellow. At the time they ought (?) to have hatched, the apical half 

 was marbled with a mixture of reddish and whitish, the basal half 

 still keeping the original tint. Later, about Christmas, the reddish 

 marbling had extended over the whole surface of the egg. A fort- 

 night ago I brought them indoors on account of the fungoid growth 

 which had attacked the damp cardboard pill-box, and which I feared 

 might eventually kill the ova. On examining them I found they had 

 assumed the dark slaty tint of eggs about to hatch. Kept in a cold 

 upstairs room, they began to hatch on February llth, and had all left 

 the egg by the 17th. The greyish, bristly young larvaB refused dock, 

 plantain, dandelion, and a coarse-leaved grass which grows in their 

 locality, and which I had suspected would prove to be their true food, 

 but took readily the hair- grass {Aira ccBspitosa), which also thrives on 

 our upland limestone pastures. They are growing somewhat slowly, 

 but seem quite healthy. Though now two weeks old, they have not 

 lost their early " looping" habit, and when resting on the grass-stems 

 they frequently assume a striking S'phinx-Yike attitude. The ground 

 colour of the body is now a deep grass-green, and they have lost that 

 bristly appearance which characterized the newly hatched larvae. — 

 Frank Litllewood ; 10, Aynam Eoad, Kendal. 



Pyrameis atalanta in Early Spring. — Whether P. atalanta 

 does or does not hybernate in this country I do not know, but it 

 may be of interest to note that this morning (March 24th) I saw a 

 specimen flying in a ride of Iron Hill Enclosure near here. I watched 

 the insect for some ten minutes or so, and several times it settled on 

 the fallen leaves within a yard or two of me. It was in good con- 

 dition but perhaps rather faded. I may mention that I noticed a 

 good many P. atalanta in the neighbourhood last autumn. — G. T. 

 Lyle ; Bank House, Brockenhurst. 



The Entomological Club. — Meetings were held on February 

 27th, 1912, at 58, Kensington Mansions, South Kensington, Mr. 

 Horace St. John K. Donisthorpe in the chair ; and on March 12th, 

 1912, at Wellfield, 4, Lingards Eoad, Lewisham, Mr. Eobert Adkin in 

 the chair. At the former meeting Mr. Alfred Sich was elected a 

 Member of the Club, and Dr. Malcolm Burr an Honorary Member. 

 At the latter meeting Mr. J. E. Collin was elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Club. — Eichard South, Hon. Sec. 



