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and it even attacked Pimpinella saxifraga, P. magna, and otlier 

 Umbelliferse. 



Chloroclystis coronata is another species which, while generally 

 associated with one or two plants (notably clematis), can yet 

 thrive on the most diverse. I once beat a larva from hawthorn 

 in the autumn, which must have fed on the leaves and, at any 

 rate, was reared on them ; on another occasion I beat one from 

 sallow, which I took to be this species, but I failed to breed 

 it. Last August, near Bude, I obtained several from bramble, 

 in company with those of Gijnmoscclis inimilata, and I am pretty 

 sure they ate the fruit as well as the flowers — perhaps, also, the 

 leaves. Like Crewe, I have also found it on Eupatorium and on 

 Angelica when working for others of the genus. In a note on 

 C. coronata (Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc. ix. 52) I expressed 

 a suspicion that the imago hybernated fully formed in the pupal 

 shell ; I find this habit was already known to Dietze nearly 

 thirty years before (Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. 202). The same 

 thing obtains with the hybernating brood of Gymnoscclis 

 pwmilata. 



Probably a longish chapter might be written on the food- 

 plants and larval habits of G. pumilata, but I will content myself 

 with one point. Early last year (1906) Dr. Chapman found, at 

 Hyeres, on Cytisus {Calycotomc) splnosus, some unknown 

 geometrid ova, from which the larvae duly hatched, spent their 

 larval period spun up in domiciles among the leaves, after 

 the manner of Hydriomeiia /areata (sordiclata) — which, rather 

 than any "pug" larva, they resembled in appearance — fed up 

 rapidly on Cytisus leaves, and at the end of May produced 

 normal pumilata. 



NOTES ON THE BUTTEKFLIES OF DIGNE. 

 By Gerard H. Gurney, F.E.S., &c. 



(Continued from p, 197.) 



Lycana iolas was well out during the first week of my stay, 

 and in beautiful order, but unless one is lucky enough to get it at 

 the right time, one will find it in rags, as its rapid, dashing flight 

 through the thick scrub soon makes havoc with its wings, render- 

 ing it quite useless from a cabinet point of view. It seemed 

 fairly common, though it is difficult to judge to what extent it is 

 distributed, as it flies over a wide area, and is very hard to catch 

 owing to its living on such rough ground ; and the nudes, at any 

 rate, seemed to me never to go near the Colutea — in any case, 

 they never came near the particular plants I happened to be 

 guarding ; and, after spending the greater part of one day in the 

 grilling sun, watching four bushes on the steep hillside behind the 



