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altitude of about 6000 feet on the Monte d'Oro. Its nearest ally 

 on the Continent would appear to be C. dorus, which has very 

 similar habits. It appears, unlike C. dorus, as far as my expe- 

 rience with that insect goes, to have a succession of broods 

 throughout the summer, and the later broods are much darker 

 than the earlier ones. It is stated by Lang to occur in 

 Sicily, and, on the authority of Boisduval, in Calabria. Should 

 this be the case, it is of course only a species having rather a 

 limited distribution. It would, however, be interesting to com- 

 pare the Corsican forms with those from the mainland. In 

 Hofmann's ' Schmetterlinge Europas ' Corsica and Sardinia are 

 the only localities given for the species. 



Lewes, Feb. 22nd, 1894. 



CALLIMORPHA HERA IN SOUTH DEVON. 

 (By E. F. Studd. 



This insect is undoubtedly now naturalised in South Devon, 

 whatever may have been the history of its original introduction. 

 The ' Entomologist ' contains numerous records of its capture in 

 this neighbourhood, and within the last three years the Kev. 

 C. E. Benthall, an ardent entomologist, has come to reside at 

 Cofton, a village between Starcross and Dawlish, in the centre 

 of its haunts. The very first summer of his residence there 

 he captured several, and has done so each year since, his 

 garden being a favourite locality. The fact that directly an 

 observant entomologist settled and worked in the district, he took 

 the insect in considerable numbers, and also found the larvae, 

 nearly full fed, in his garden, suggests the possibility that it may 

 have been there from time immemorial, and only required to be 

 regularly worked for to be taken. The fact that, without being 

 specially worked for, isolated specimens were from time to time 

 unexpectedly taken, over a long series of years, in the neighbour- 

 hood of, and even at some considerable distance from, its present 

 known centre, points in the same direction. Add to this that 

 that centre was not known as such, and is not a place likely to 

 be pitched on by a casual entomologist, unless specially directed 

 there, and the possibility becomes a probability. 



In the year 1892 Mr. Bentball captured, or had brought to 

 him by the villagers, thirteen specimens, including four of the 

 var. liitescens. Erom a female, taken in that year on Sept. 12th, 

 he obtained a batch of eggs, laid on the 14th. These hatched on 

 the 22nd and 23rd, and on Oct. 5th he very kindly presented me 

 with ten of the small larvse, from which the following notes 

 were made : — 



