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occurs in June and July in the Vallée de Pons and the Vallée 
de Cuges, and at the ‘‘ glaciere du Pic de Bretagne.”” Common 
in some parts of Italy, and in Hungary, there is still no other 
authentic French record for it, and it will be gratifying to hear 
from Dr. Siepi, when time and opportunity permit, that he is 
satisfied with his identification, in view of the general clearing- 
up of the group to which I have already referred. M. Oberthur, 
in a short notice of the butterfly, refers neither to the above 
notice, nor to the Italian localities (‘Lépid. Comparée,’ fase. vi 
(2912) p.:'77).. 
P. sao.—Very variable, and, as Rambur said of it long ago in 
Andalusia, ‘“‘un véritable protée pour les couleurs et le dessin 
des ailes inférieures.”’ 
The rest of the Hesperiids call for no further remark here 
until we reach : 
Parnara nostrodamus.—Mr. Morris writes that he has never 
seen this species at Cannes, but the late M. Constant announced 
(‘ Ann. Soc. France,’ 1887, p. elxxxv) that on September 27th, 
1887, he captured a specimen at rest on a blade of Andropogon 
hirsutum, evidently freshly emerged, quite close to his villa at 
Golfe Juan. This was hailed as the first recorded species in 
France, but it seems that, either in the preceding year, or earlier, 
Dr. Coulon had discovered nostrodamus somewhat further east at. 
Hize, near Nice, where several examples were taken by him and 
Wagner in October (Lépid. des Alpes-Maritimes, 2°. Supplément 
Milliare, ‘signed Cannes 1886, Addenda, p. 81). Finally, M. 
Oberthiir tells us that M. Decoster found it at Mentone, still 
further east, at some date unstated. In other southern countries 
it appears to be double brooded, emerging from May to October 
(cp. Frionnet, Premiers Etats des Lépids. Francais Rhopalocera, 
p. 276, who credits Milliere with Camnes records). But there 
has been considerable confusion between this species and 
P. lefebvrei (which is not a French insect), and we must await 
further information upon its biology. At all events, it is clear 
that the butterfly has been taken in the autumn in this one 
favoured Department. 
(To be continued.) 
NEW HYBRIDS IN THE BISTONINA. 
By J. W. H. Harrison, B.Sc. 
Since my last list of Biston hybrids, published in the ‘ Ento- 
mologist’ for July, 1910, each year has produced its quota of 
new hybrids, and my experiments have become more extensive 
than ever. The result is that I am practically overwhelmed 
