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captured September 7th. Gompliocerus macidaliis, at Clacton- 

 on-Sea in August. Stauroderus bicolor, abundant at Colchester. 

 Chorthippus elegans, rather common on sea-walls at Colchester 

 on September 7th. Chorthippus parallelus, not uncommon at 

 Colchester in dry fields. Mr. Harwood was good enough to 

 send the E. perspiciUaris and some of the F. auricidaria for 

 inspection. I usually expect C. parallelus to be more frequent 

 on damp than on dry ground. 



Kingston-on-Thames : March, 1913. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Hybernation of Pyrameis atalanta. — Keferring to the note on 

 this subject by Mr. F. W. Frohawk in the February number of the 

 'Entomologist' (vol. xlvi. pp. 40-42), perhaps it may be worth 

 putting on record in the same journal that amongst my notes on the 

 Lepidoptera of Northumberland and the Borders, which I have lately 

 been going over with a view to publication, there is one of a red 

 admiral which I found hybernating in a potting-shed in our garden 

 in Berv/ick-on-Tweed, in December, 1887. It was ahve when dis- 

 covered, and in such fair condition that it made quite a passable 

 cabinet specimen. The sex does not appear to have been noted. In 

 addition to this instance I have a note of one found hybernating by 

 the late William Shaw, of Eyemouth, in Berwickshire, a few years 

 previously, and, although I forget now what became of the specimen, 

 and have no more details of it, he was a most careful entomologist 

 and a man whose statements could always be implicitly rehed upon. 

 We were not aware at that date that the hybernation of this species 

 was so exceptional in this country as it appears to be considered 

 now, else, no doubt, fuller particulars would have been preserved, 

 and possibly other instances noted. — George Bolam ; Alston, 

 Cumberland. 



Erebia epiphron (var. cassiope) at " Malvern." — In the Ober- 

 thiir collection at Rennes there are fifteen specimens of ejnj^hron 

 (var. cassiope) purchased at the sale of the Raynor collection at 

 Stevens's Auction Rooms, October 27th, 1891. Some of them are 

 labelled "Malvern." Can any reader of the 'Entomologist' throw 

 light on the origin of these butterflies, or refer me to any account of 

 the occurrence of the species in Worcestershire? — H, Rowland- 

 Brown ; Harrow Weald, March 10th, 1913. 



CCENONYMPHA TIPHON AND PAMPHILUS ON THE SAME GROUND. — 



In his interesting article describing the rediscovery of Cc&nonympha 

 tiphon in North Wales Mr. Arkle concludes with an observation 

 which seems intended to invite a confirmation, or the contrary, from 

 the experience of other collectors. I refer to the remark, " I have 

 no recollection of seeing pamphilits on exactly the same ground as 

 tiphon, whatever the character of the locality might be." My own 

 experience of tiphon is so small as to be confined to only two 

 localities, and both these Continental. But, oddly enough, in both 



