THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 203 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8^c, 



A Netv{?) Food- plant for Melitcea Artemis. — I have tried 

 for the last three seasons to breed M. Artemis, on what I have 

 always understood to be their usual food-plants, namely, 

 Plantago lanceolata and Scabiosa succisa, but have never 

 been able to succeed in getting a single larva to feed on these 

 plants. Having obtained a few dozen larvae in the spring of 

 this year, I resolved to try a new food-plant: I supplied the 

 larva3 with honeysuckle, on which, to my surprise, they fed 

 up rapidly, and in due course attained the pupa stale. From 

 these pupae I have bred a series of very dark images, varying 

 both in size and colouring, not only from those I have taken 

 in Sussex and Kent, but also from any that I have received 

 or seen, eitlier from the western and northern counties of 

 England, or from Ireland or Scotland. — H. Goss ; Brighton, 

 August 20, 1874. 



Apntura Iris in Monmoutltsliire. — Last week a friend of 

 mine brought me two s]jecimens of Apatura Iris, both males, 

 which were taken in this neighbourhood : one was captured 

 in the kitchen, and the other outside, but close to a house in 

 the country. This insect was caught and seen very frequently 

 near here some five or six years ago. The county is omitted 

 from the list in your work on ' British Butterflies.' — H. Staf- 

 ford Gustard; Usk, Mo7iniontIisJtire, August 1, 1874. 



Melanagria Galathea in Lincolnshire. — In your 'History 

 of British Butterflies,' p. 79, you remark that hitherto you 

 have no record of the occurrence of the marbled white, 

 Melanagria Galathea, in this county. The following note 

 may, therefore, be of interest: — On the 18th of July, when 

 driving across the wolds between Rigby and Caistor, and 

 near the highest part of the wold, I noticed numerous 

 examples of M. Galathea flitting in rather a lazy, undecided 

 manner along the hedge-banks bordering the road. Returning 

 some hours later by a parallel road to this, about one mile to 

 the eastward, and on the suumiit of the wold, I again came 

 across numbers of this butterfly, both along the road-side and 

 in old disused chalk-])its contiguous. They seem very partial 

 to settling on blossoms of the thistle and knobweed (Centaurea 

 nigra). Altogether, on both roads, I must have seen several 

 scores. I only took one example, as I was not aware, at the 



