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This insect has been al)undaut on Ranniore Common, and generally in tlie 

 neighbourhood in greater profusion than ever before during my experience. 

 On May 15th I took a few specimens of Neiiieohius lucina, but could not go 

 for them again till the "2 1st, when I had the good fortune to take the male 

 and female m coitu. I placed the female on a primrose under a cylinder, 

 and by the •24:th over fifty ova were laid on the under sides of the leaves, 

 some singly, others in batches of three, five, and even ten. The young 

 larvse from these have appeared to-day, and have begun to eat, some on the 

 upper and some on the under side of the leaf. On May '27lh and 28th, I 

 took some fine specimens of Lyccena bellargus ; the former day was some- 

 what dull, and the insects could be pill-boxed easily as they rested on the 

 stems of the grasses. On May 29th Argynnis euphrosyne was about on 

 Ranmore Common, but was somewhat wild and difficult of capture. On 

 several occasions during the month I have come across broods of fifty or 

 sixty larvae of Vanessa urticce, and some that I took began to pupate to-day. 

 — F. A. Old.aker; Parsonage House, Dorking. June 4th, 1901. 



Collecting Lkpjdoptera jn Tangiek. — The following is an account 

 of four months' collecting in Tangier, from Jan. 1st till April 27th, lUUO. 

 The whole of January was brilliantly fine except for occasional gales of wind, 

 and so my father and I could go out regularly. The insects out during 

 January were Paianje egeria (a very red form), Gonepteryx cleopatra 

 (hybernaled), Euchlo'e beleinia, Vanessa cardui, very fine and dark speci- 

 mens, Colias edusa for the first fortnight of the month, and one P. machaon 

 on the 19th, which seems very early. Pieris hrassiccB, P. rapa, and 

 P. napi were all out in abundance, P. napi being the scarcest. P. brassicce 

 is very different to our English one, being half as big again ; there were 

 several pupae of it on an outliouse. We also found several lappet-like larvae 

 feeding on two sorts of Genista, but they hatched into an eggar, with great 

 difference in the sexes ; also a larva or Acherontia atropos, which died. 

 Macwglossa steUatarum was common always, and M. bombyciforinis was in 

 fair numbers at the end of the month. Vanessa atulanta was common 

 during February. I might perhaps describe the two places we caught most 

 of our insects in. One was the end of our own garden, but it was a 

 regular tangle of valerian, hawthorn, gladiolus, and other flowers, and had 

 a ravine m it, with a stream at the bottom. Here we got every species we 

 collected, except Thestor ballus and two sorts of Ccenonympha, which were 

 only obtained in open moorland country. The other place was a disused 

 gravel-pit, overgrown with geranium and bordered by evergreens. " Blues" 

 began to appear about the middle of February, Lycana argiolus being 

 common ; but the weather at the end of February and the beginning of 

 March was nearly always wet. On February 27th we caught our first 

 Thais rumina, and continued to catch this species till the end of March, 

 when it suddenly disappeared and gave no sign of being over, as the 

 specimens we took were perfect to the end, and we hardly ever saw any 

 rubbed or worn examples. On March 5th we saw some beautiful Papilio 

 podaiirius in a friend's garden, but they flew so high we could not catch 

 them. The next day we caught a male Euchlo'e eupheno ; all the males of 

 this species come out much earlier than the females. The first example of 

 the latter that we obtained was on April Ist. The under side of the hind 

 wings is mottled with green, not marked with lines as in the European 

 variety eiiphenoldes. We also saw Thestor ballus on March Bth ; Gonepteryx 

 rhanmi, too, was on the wing by this time. E. beleinia was still out in 



