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SOME SPRING AND AUTUMN BUTTERFLIES OF CANNES. LEG 
Cannes, where Mr. Tucker took a single female example in 1913. 
It does not appear in Milliere’s Catalogue until the second 
Supplement, and then on the authority of Dr..Coulon for Monaco 
only in June, which date would in an ordinary season be late at 
so low at elevation. The distinguishing characters of the gen. 
est. var. estivalis, Bellier, are admirably set out by Mr. W. G. 
Sheldon in his paper on ‘‘ Var. Aistiva at Digne” (‘ Ent. Record,’ 
xxiv (1912) pp. 148-150). But possibly, when he wrote, Mr. 
Sheldon was unaware that Bellier de la Chavignerie had antici- 
pated by many years Staudinger’s ‘‘ discovery” and naming of 
the summer duponcheli (ep. ‘Ann. Soc. Ent. France,’ 1869, 
pp. 518-514, and ‘Lépid. Comparée,’ fase. ili, p. 157). 
Curiously enough in the Catalogue Bellier’s notice of the type is 
cited, but his estivalis is completely ignored. Bellier followed 
Duponchel in giving the type the name of lathyri, but anyone 
familiar with Duponchel’s excellent figures will entertain no 
shadow of doubt that lathyri, Dup., is not the lathyri of Hubner’s 
figuration—a well-known form of L. sinapis. There seems, 
indeed, no good reason why the name duponcheli, Stgr., should 
not fall before lathyri, Dup., unless it was specifically occupied 
at the time. At all events, estiva, Stgr., gives way to estivalis, 
Bellier. 
The life history of the species appears never to have been 
worked out, though Duponchel, in the Supplement of his work 
on Butterflies, expresses a hope that M. Fonscolombe, of Aix-en- 
Provence, from whom the original examples were received, would 
shortly supply the details for the later published ‘ Iconographie 
des Chenilles.’ Sand’s ‘‘ chenille en mai sur la gesse-des-pres ”’ 
(= Lathyrus pratensis) is a wild guess based on Duponchel’s 
synonym “ Papillon de la Gesse,’’ and requires confirmation as 
badly as his locality for the species in Cantal— Murat, June 20th 
(‘ Cat. des Lépids. du Berry et de l Auvergne,’ p. 3). 
Gonepteryx rhamni.—Rare. 
G. cleopatra.--Mr. Morris suspects a partial second emer- 
gence in the late autumn. He has taken fresh examples, male 
and female, as late as October, 1918, and I have a record of a 
male in good order observed by myself between Puget-Théniers 
and St. André (de Méouilles) on October 16th, 1902. My own 
idea is that the one emergence, which begins in July, is spread 
out over some months, and that all summer and autumn 
captures in the Alpes-Maritimes are the offspring of the 
hybernated individuals, the first of which this year, 1916, a 
male, was seen at Le Cannet on February 19th. 
Var. ¢ massiliensis, Foulquier.—I am at a loss to understand 
why Staudinger identified this form of cleopatra, described by 
M. G. Foulquier in 1879, with gen. est. italica, Gerh. (1882). 
Apart from a breach of the law of priority in nomenclature, it 
looks as though Staudinger had not taken the precaution to read 
