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brood at Grésy-sur-Aix Haute-Savoie, towards the end of August—in 
my experience by no means a very late date for the normal second 
brood at this elevation. But in the ‘Ann. Ent. Soc. France,’ 1869, 
M. Girard reports a definite third emergence during the first half of 
October, a hot month that year, at La Brie, a district in the Depart- 
ment of Seine-et-Marne situated not thirty miles south-west of Paris. 
In the second half of the same month in that year there was also a 
third brood of Limenztis camilla—H. Rowianp-Brown; Harrow 
Weald, May 7th, 1916. 
GEOTRUPES PYRENEUS IN New Forest.—In a most interesting 
and inexpensive volume on British Coleoptera, by Mr. W. E. Sharp,* 
I note that with regard to Geotrupes pyreneus the author states that 
the species is rarely found on heaths in the south of England. This 
beetle has certainly been recorded from Hampshire, but I do not know 
whether exact localities have been given. Anyway it may perhaps 
be well to mention that when working for Lepidoptera on Black 
Knowl, Brockenhurst, I netted a specimen on June 10th, 1915.— 
Ricwarp SoutH; 4, Mapesbury Court, Shoot-up Hill, London, N.W. 
A Frew Notes rrom Dorset.—As a change from munition work 
I had the pleasure of a few happy hourg collecting in ‘‘ Dorset Dear”’ 
this Easter. In sauntering through the old hunting grounds I found 
larvee of Arctia villica sunning itself in fair numbers, and A. caza 
feeding greedily in the sheltered corners; some of these latter were 
fully half grown, but the majority had apparently only just come out 
of hibernation. A few larvee of P. plantaginis which I put down last 
summer I noticed were on the move, also that larvze of M. galatea were 
beginning to develop appetites. P. rape and V. urtice were on the 
wing, but flying very weakly as the wind was rather cold. I hada 
nest of robins under observation, and I noticed that the parent birds 
were in and out every few seconds feeding their young with the larvxe 
of a noctua, which looked to me like Phlogophora meticulosa. If so 
these larvae must have been very plentiful, for the birds evidently had 
no difficulty in finding them.—Lronarp TatcHett; 71, Clova Road, 
Forest Gate, E. 
ABUNDANCE OF CELASTRINA ARGIoLUS.—During the glorious 
weather of the last week in April there was an unusual abundance of 
this butterfly ; in fact, I captured more specimens in one week than 
I have taken in the previous twenty-five years. I believe the reason 
was that, owing to the war and scarcity of labour, the ivy on the 
houses in the town has not been trimmed during the last two years, 
and consequently has bloomed.—W. Girrorp NasH; Clavering 
House, Bedford. 
ABERRATION OF RuMICIA PHLHAS.—From a ? taken in Hasle- 
mere on September 4th, 1915, which oviposited on September 8th, I 
reared a fine 2? specimen of ab. swbradiata on December 18th. As 
far as I remember, the parents were both quite normal, and the rest 
of the brood were not in any way remarkable.—F. A. OupAKER, M.A., 
f.E.S.; The Red House, Haslemere, May 19th, 1916. 
** «Common Beetles of Our Countryside’ (8S. W. Partridge & Co.). 
