198 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



does not cite authorities for any of them. I cannot trace his 

 authority for Perpignan, which is in the region of Mr, McCly- 

 mont's locality {cp. rny note, ' Entomologist,' xlix, p. 131). Some 

 forms of *S'. baton might possibly be mistaken for G. lijsimon. 



GLEANINGS FKOM MY NOTEBOOKS— II. 

 By J. W. Heslop Hakrison, I). So. 



In continuing this series of notes I do not ])ropose to follow 

 any definite order ; as the title indicates I am simply extracting 

 what seem to be interesting records, and therefore possibly 

 helpful to others. 



Vanessa io, L. This species had vanished from our counties 

 thirty years before I had ever cai)tured an insect, and therefore 

 but little hope existed that I should ever see it here. Within 

 recent years it appears to have regained ground, and has been 

 taken in the Team Valley, N. Durham, by several friends and 

 myself in late summer. I caught a hibernated female at 

 Lamesley on June 3rd, 1918. 



Euvmicssa antiopa, L. Taken on the Durham coast by Mr. 

 J. Baxter and myself about six years ago, botli specimens being of 

 the American form, with the border heavily black-speckled ; 

 captured inland and recorded in the ' North Mail ' at Axwell 

 the same year. I had not realised to what form the specimens 

 belonged until I gave my wrecked specimen to Mr. Burrows for 

 dissection. After he got it he asked my permission to set it up 

 instead of making a prej)aration of its geuitalia. When he had 

 done so its identity was revealed. I have only recently learned 

 from Mr. Carter, of Sunderland, that the species had been seen 

 at the Black Hall Eocks by other observers precisely where we 

 obtained it. 



Cidymnia difints, L. Kecorded, but erroneously, for the 

 county of Durham in Robson's catalogue — an error which Mr. 

 Gardner has since corrected, as his specimens were C. affi/nis. 

 It can be reinstated, as I have beaten larva3 from Ulmus montana 

 in Lambton Woods, N. Durham. 



Xanthia citrago, L. Another species supposed to be very 

 rare in vice counties 66, 67, 68 ; in fact, its sole claim to be 

 included rested on captures near Durham. Larv^, however, 

 were very plentiful on lime in the Derwent Valley a few weeks 

 ago, in stations where they have been common enough for 

 twenty years. 



Tapinstola elymi, Tr. Odd specimens on the sandhills at 

 Kinghorn, Fifeshire. Whether it occurs there now or not is a 

 different matter as the sand was removed to a very great extent 

 five years ago. 



