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1908, p. 284, where is recorded the capture of A. viator, Forst., in 

 Scotland. A single specimen only was taken, and Mr. Donisthorpe 

 informs me that no other has since occurred to him. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Claude Morley, who named the insect, for drawing my 

 attention to this record. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 

 Arctic Lepidoptera. — My paper on the distribution of Plebems 

 argns in Scandinavia has brought me several very interesting com- 

 munications. Among them a letter from Mr. Henry Baker, of 

 Cannington, Bridgwater, who visited the Murman coast of Eussian 

 Lapland in June, 1895. He was encamped with the Eussian Lapps 

 at Lutni, at the mouth of the river which falls into Sviatanoskaia 

 Bay on the Arctic Ocean, west of the White Sea. He has kindly 

 added to my collection a female example of Erebia llgea (? euryale) var. 

 adyte, " the only lepidopteron observed there," captured on June 26th. 

 — H. Eowland-Brown. 



Green Pupa of Euchloe Cardamines. — With reference to Mr. 

 Frohawk's note (antea, p. 41) as to the colour of pupae of E. carda- 

 mines in state of nature : as the pupa seems to be so seldom found 

 wild, it may be of interest to know that I found a pupa in surround- 

 ings which I remember well, during the winter either at the begin- 

 ning or the end of 1901. It was on a twig in an old hawthorn 

 hedge, on the roadside at Grange. The pupa was a very conspicuous 

 green object, and looked like a solitary green leaf, folded along its 

 midrib, hi an otherwise brown and leafless hedge. It was at least 

 2 ft. 6 in. above the hedge bottom and about a foot "inside" the 

 hedge. The hedge being on a low bank, the pupa was almost at 

 eye-level. I had taken no interest in natural history for a year or 

 two, and observing or collecting would be far from my mind when 

 the pupa forced itself on my attention. Unfortunately, I made no 

 wa-itten record. I remember my surprise that the pupa had escaped 

 capture, or destruction, so long. A few days later I found it easily, 

 at night, by the light of a match. Some few days later still it had 

 gone. Garlic mustard, or one of its relations, grows abundantly in 

 a similar hedge close by, and probably had grown where I found 

 the pupa. It seems to confirm Mr. Frohawk's surmise, that pupa- 

 tion usually takes place in hedgerows, low down amongst the under- 

 growth. In this case, by accident of position, a protective colour 

 became as conspicuous as a warning colour. — J. D. Ward ; Lime- 

 hurst, Grange-over- Sands, Lanes. 



The Blue-haired Carpenter-Bees.— I have just received from 

 Prof. C. F. Baker two females of the blue-haired species of Meso- 

 trichia (sub-genus Cyaneoderes, Ashmead). The larger one, from 

 the Island of Penang, is M. ccerulea (Fabr.). The smaller, from 

 Singapore, is M. dormeyeri (Cyaneoderes dormeycri, Enderlein, 1909), 

 wJiich was described from Singapore and the Island of Nias. The 

 male from Singapore, which I reported as M. ccsruleiformis (Meade- 

 Waldo), is dormeyeri. Meade- Waldo's species appears to be no 



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