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told me his method it sounded drastic, but in practice it is simple 

 and practicable. 



Corrections and Explanations. — I refer first to the butterfly- 

 supposed to be Melanargiagalatca (' Entomologist,' vol. 1, p. 90). The 

 example resembles galatea in ground colour and in size, but the 

 markings, especially near the discoidal cell, resemble those of lachesis. 

 It may be M. lachesis var. canigulensis. On the same page the 

 M. deione was at first identified, and rightly so, as M. phcebe. By 

 some mischance the correct name was erased. M. deione is reported 

 from Molitg. In vol. li, at p. 72, the example said to be Satyrus 

 amalthea is probably a semele, unusually pale for the locality. To the 

 butterflies captured at Vernet-les-Bains I must add S. hermione. 

 Some text- books state that hermione is replaced by alcyone in the 

 south of France, but that is an error. Hermione occurs at St. Pons 

 in Herault ; it also occurs at La Massane. It is also found in Spain 

 near Barcelona, and at Tordera. — James E. McClymont ; Amelie-les- 

 Bains, France, May 29th, 1918. 



[Is this La Massane in Bouches-du-Ehone ? Berce records 

 hermione in Herault, and M. JuUien, of Geneva, from Maguelonne. 

 I have no knowledge of alcyone occurring with it in this Department. 

 I shall be very much obliged if Mr. McClymont will communicate a 

 list of the lepidoptera observed by him in the entomologically rich 

 Herault. With the exception of some Montpellier observations by 

 Eambur, and other collectors of the earlier nineteenth century, little 

 seems to have been published on the subject. This Department 

 should provide interesting links between the fauna of the Pyrenees 

 and the Peninsula, and the Midi. — H. E.-B.] 



Awkward Incidents in an Entomological Career. — Insect- 

 hunting leads one, by its very fascination, into strange places and 

 predicaments ; and our experience on April 26th, 1904, was most 

 diverting, though it might have ended — as it would often do, if man- 

 traps and spring-guns were not abolished — in serious consequences. 

 Presence of mind is a useful possession upon such occasions, as old 

 John Scott found when, ordered by the owner off his grounds, he 

 sturdily commented that (when there is but one man's word against 

 your own) might is right (cjj. ' Entom. Weekly Int.,' ii, p. 16). From 

 Brandon, Elliott and I had ridden our bicycles from the Lakenheath 

 road, opposite Northcourt Lodge, to a cottage in Elms Covert, where 

 an aged keeper directed us down a road known as " Shakers," when 

 our compass showed a southerly direction and we sought east. So 

 we branched off across a heath which was half gorse and v^holly 

 heather (any botanist understands this kind of proportion) of about a 

 foot's growth, and rode as straightly as may be along rabbits' tracks 

 of six inches or less in breadth to Elveden Warren ; thence, avoiding 

 Warren Lodge, we emerged upon the Bury road at the classical 

 " Diastictus Place " {cp. ' E. M. M.,' 1903, p. 204), as designed. No 

 lonelier spot exists in Suffolk. There we stacked our machines and 

 fell to investigating the rabbit-holes beneath the turf wall bounding 

 the high road, whence Onthophilus sulcatus and other rarities may 

 be retrieved with sufficient persuasion and labour. Presently I saw, 

 on rising to stretch, a man stalking something unknown in a 



