148 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cujndo minimus. — Fairly plentiful on the sides of the Koman 

 Camp, La Chaussee, 



Nemeobius liicina. — One male taken in the Foret de Vigna- 

 court, the only one seen. 



Hesperia malrce. — Common on the railway embankment near 

 Hangest. H. sao ? — Three specimens seen near Amiens which 

 appeal- to answer to the description of this butterfly. Unfor- 

 tunately, I had no net with me at the time. 



Nisoniades tages. — Plentiful in May. 



Adopona flava. — Common near woods round about Amiens. 

 A. lineola. — Found on most sunny banks near woods in July in 

 the Freeh encourt area. 



Thymelicas actceon. — Appeared to be very local. I only found 

 it near the village of St. Gratien, but there it was plentiful. 



Aiigiades si/lvcmus. — Plentiful in the open glades of most of 

 the woods. A. comma. — A few specimens taken near Longue 

 in August. 



I should like to mention that I nearly caught a specimen 

 of what I believe to have been Iphiclides podcdirius near Picquigny, 

 but my net was a very small folding one, and in my excitement 

 I missed it. I cannot therefore feel certain as to the identifi- 

 cation. 



SUPPOSED DISAPPEARANCE OF TORTEIX PRO- 

 NUB AN A NEAR PARIS. 



By Robert Adkin, F.E.S. 



In the ' Bulletin Soc. Ent. de France,' No. 4, 1918, p. 99, 

 M. E. Moreau writes: '' Tortrix proiruhana, a bpecies of the 

 south, whose presence in Paris I established about twenty years 

 since, had become very abundant there ; the larvae, introduced 

 probably on evergreen shrubs, lived on ivy. In October, 1916, 

 I still found the larvjie in great number on the ivies of the XIYth 

 Arrondissement ; in the following spring there was not one left, 

 and though I searched for the imago, I could not find a single 

 one. The long and severe winter of 1916-17 is certainly the 

 cause of this disappearance. The fact of a larva being destroyed 

 by the cold is, I believe,- somewhat rare, and the observations 

 of others on the subject would be of interest." 



The foregoing translation of M. Moreau's note was sent to 

 me about a month ago by my friend Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, 

 and as the discovery of the species in this country appeared to 

 be much on "all fours" with its detection in the Paris neigh- 

 bourhood, I felt interested, especially as on looking up my notes 

 for 1917, I found only one doubtful record, namely, that I caught 

 a gHmpse of what appeared to be an example of the species on 



