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another I gave a friend, not then knowing if was avis, was taken at 
Mandelicu on hawthorn.’ Mandelieu is about seven kilometres from 
Cannes in the Auribeau direction.—H. Rownanp-Brown; Harrow 
Weald, July 29th, 1916. 
AGRIADES CORYDON, VAR. SYNGRAPHA, AND MBLANARGIA GALATEA 
In THE Bucks. CuinteRNs.—I have had only one day’s collecting 
this year; and that so cool and overcast that hardly an insect was 
moving. This was July 23rd, and I was out on my favourite ground 
to look for M. galatea; of course, it was not visible. But I met an 
enthusiastic young entomologist who told me that he had taken it 
recently quite close to Prince’s Risboro’ ; and also that he had cap- 
tured the ‘‘all-blue” female of corydon on the same spot where I 
took the single specimen already recorded some years ago.— 
July 29th. 
Since writing the above note I have had another day, August 20th, 
on the Chilterns, when I was more fortunate in point of weather. 
A. corydon was swarming—I have never known it here in such 
abundanece—and I captured half a dozen exquisitely fresh var. 
syngrapha among them, my companion being equally successful. I 
took also one female, the hind wings streaked with blue much as in 
semisyngrapha, Tutt—H. Rownanp-Brown; Harrow Weald, 
August 22nd, 1916. 
FRENCH ENTOMOLOGISTS AT THE Front.—The Entomological 
Society of France publishes in its monthly Bulletins news of all 
members serving inthe French Army and Navy. In this connection 
many friends of the family will read with interest and sympathy 
the roll of honour of the Oberthtir family. All the sons and sons-in- 
law of M. Charles and M. René Oberthiir respectively have seen 
service ; and M. Henri Oberthiir, a grandson of M. Charles, Aspirant 
Officier, 54me Regt., has just been wounded and taken prisoner before 
Fleury, near Verdun. He is reported wounded and in hospital at 
Munich; of his company on this occasion but a single wounded 
corporal survived. M. Charles Oberthiir the younger, also at 
Verdun, has fought from the first days of the war, was present in all 
the actions where his battery was engaged in the retreat from 
Belgium, and in the turning victory of the Marne as captain of 
artillery. M. Louis Oberthiir in April last was wounded, and sick 
in hospital, but has now recovered. Dr. Joseph Oberthir, a keen 
lepidopterist, is in command of a military hospital. Of M. René’s four 
sons-in-law, the youngest, Capt. de Clerck, was left for dead on the 
field of Virton in August, 1914, but had a marvellous escape, and is 
well again; Lieut. Cartier-Bresson, 94me Regt. has just had his arm 
broken by a shell splinter at Verdun, and is in hospital at Orleans. 
M. Charles Oberthur the younger accompanied his father to the 
Oxford Congress of Entomology in 1912; Henri Oberthiir’s photo- 
graph was published with that of his famous grandfather in the 
‘Entomologist,’ 1912. He was then a boy at school. Since then he 
has made several interesting entomological expeditions in the higher 
Pyrenees, and bids fair to carry on the family tradition. We wish 
him a speedy recovery and return to France.—H. R.-B. 
ENTOM.—SEPTEMBER, 1916. a 
