88 ; THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
those whose names have been removed is headed by—Cobourg 
(Ferdinand de), Sofia. But in this connection it is interesting to 
note that more than one enemy German retains his membership. 
The President for the year is M. l’Abbé J. de Johannis, well known to 
all British lepidopterists who work in France as an unimpeachable 
authority upon a group far more popular with British than French 
entomologists. 
To No. 2 ‘ Bulletin’ (the ‘ Bulletin’ is published, apart from the 
_ * Transactions,’ bi-monthly, and has appeared punctually even during 
the last eighteen months of the war) M. l’Abbé J. de Johannis 
contributes a short paper on the time of emergence from the pupa 
of certain insects, of which the following may be cited as common to 
both France and Britain: Agrotis agathina, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; A. 
ripe, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Catocola fraxini, 9 p.m. to midnight; Calli- 
morpha dominula, and C. quadripunctaria, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 
Anthrocera trifolii, 9 a.m. to noon; Sesza vesprformis, 10 a.m. to 
2 p.m.; S. myopeformis, 9 a.m. to noon; S. chrysediformes, 8 a.m. 
to ll a.m.; Hepialusl upulina, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
Tue Norronk HESPERIA ALVEUS.—Since writing my note (antea, 
p. 66) on the Norfolk H. alveus, I have received a letter from Mr. J. 
Edwards drawing my attention to his article on the subject pub- 
lished in the ‘Ent. Mo. Mag.’ xxxix. p. 90 (1903), in which he 
establishes beyond all doubt the identity of Mr. Marsh’s captures. 
I much regret that I should have overlooked his lucid account of the 
identification and habitat of what he claims to be a truly indigenous 
species, a survival of the ancient fauna of Norfolk. It is also inter- 
esting to know that he is the possessor of one of the Hesperiids in 
question ; and this not one of a pair or so, but of a series taken at 
the same spot, Cawston. The Rev. T. H. Marsh, nephew of the 
captor, and his successor as Rector of Cawston, tells me that some 
still remain in his late uncle’s collection. A pair fetched 40/- at the 
sale of the late Mr. Barrett’s collection on March 16th, 1906, at 
Stevens, one of which probably served as model for the very poor 
figure in his Lepidoptera of the British Isles. Perhaps some reader 
of the ‘ Entomologist’ will kindly inform me where the rest of the 
series have founda home. As to whether they are alvews or armori- 
canus Obthr., I am safe in leaving the problem to be solved in the 
able hands of Mr. Edwards.—H. Rownanp-Brown ; Harrow Weald, 
Middlesex, March 24th, 1916. 
Is XANTHIA ERYTHRAGO, Warren = PALLEAGO Hb., fig. 442 = 
GILVAGO var. PALLEAGO Gn., A British Insect ?—Mr. Bernard 
Cooper, of Stoke Newington, has recently asked my opinion of a 
pair of insects which he thought might be a form of X. ocellaris 
Bkh. I at once recognised them as the X. erythrago of Warren 
(Seitz, ‘ Macrolepidoptera,’ vol. iii) an insect for a long time regarded 
as a var. of X. gilvago, and one which has never been recorded from 
this country. The specimens are labelled “EK. Kent,” but no date 
or name of captor is given. Mr. Cooper tells me that they were 
purchased from Mr. J. H. Shepherd, late of Shipley, Yorks. 
Erythrago is both local and rare on the Continent, but from the 
little I have read of its habits and habitat there seems no reason 
