30© THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



The late Frederick Bond. — I have read with much interest the 

 memoir of our dear old friend, in your magazine of this month, so ably 

 written by Mr, J. W. Dunning. Being probably one, if not the oldest of 

 his entomological friends, a few recollections of him in our early days may 

 not be out of place as a supplement. I made the acquaintance of 

 Frederick Bond at the natural history sales that took place at the Auction 

 Rooms, King Street, Covent Garden, just fifty years ago, and he kindly 

 invited me down to Mount Pleasant, Kingsbury, where he was residing 

 with his step-father, Capt. Bond. I was a frequent visitor after that, 

 generally staying from Saturday to Monday, and used to enjoy my visits 

 very much. We took occasionally little entomological excursions together, 

 in the neighbourhood and elsewhere. At that time he might be called a 

 general lover and collector of all natural history subjects. Nothing came 

 amiss to him in animal life ; but his greatest interest was shown for birds 

 and beetles, foreign as well as British. Frequently we used to meet by 

 appointment on Harapstead Heath, to search after PcBcilus dimidiatus, 

 which was then not uncommon there, and to the lane where the beautiful 

 Tychius 5-punctatus was discovered on vetch by our old friend Frederick 

 Smith. My collecting British Lepidoptera induced him to take that order 

 up, and a series of Colias hyale which I gave him in 1842, specimens 

 captured by me near Arundel that year, encouraged him to go on, and 

 resulted in his getting together one of the finest collections of British 

 Lepidoptera in this country, his collection, like my own, being very rich 

 in varieties. I always found him a kind and genial companion, and ever 

 ready to impart information, and shall remember with pleasure to the end 

 of my days the many delightful hours that I spent in his society. — 

 Samuel Stevens; Loanda, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, Nov. -2, 1889. 



Vanessa antiopa in Hants. — While sketching on Friday, November 

 8th, which happened to be a peculiarly warm day for the time of year, 

 I saw a Vanessa antiopa. It flew quite close to me, almost into my face, 

 and I had no doubt of its identity, though I made no attempt to catch it. — 

 L. F. Marindin ; Liss, Hants. 



Epinephele tithonus, var. — While staying at Perranporth, on the 

 north coast of Cornwall, the last week in August, I caught a variety of 

 Epinephele tithonus, which has, under the large black spot in the corners 

 of the upper wings, two smaller ones. It is a female specimen, and, I am 

 sorry to say, rather damaged. — H. J. Dixon; 7, Leamington Park Villas, 

 Acton, October 21, 1889. 



Deilephila galii, Parasites on. — On reading the paragraph from 

 the Rev. Mr. Bloomfield (Entom. 280), I placed myself in coramuuication 

 with the author, also with J. B. Bridgman, and having compared notes and 

 insects, have arrived at the conclusion that the parasite is Troyus exaltorius, 

 Paiiz., and not T. lutorius as was intended. I hope to refer to the 

 difference between T. exaltorius and T. lutorius in the next volume. — 

 G. C. Bignell; Stonehouse, November 20, 1889. 



Thyatika batis var. mexicana, Hy. Edw. — In looking over some vols. 

 of ' Papilio,' I came across (vol. iv, Jan. 1884, pp. 16, 17), the description 

 of a new variety of T. batis named as above, which I quote, as it is 



