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forms of P. napi. I gather from the ‘Entomologist’ that the 
European butterflies have got considerably beyond Kane’s book, but 
it is a useful size when one’s kit is limited to 35 lb—H. Douauas 
Smart, Capt., R.A.M.C., B.E.F.; August 8th, 1916. 
In connection with Mr. J. W. Brown’s and Captain Douglas 
Smart’s interesting letters, it is noteworthy that all our British 
Lycnids, except Lycena arion, have been reported from the Pas de 
Calais or the Nord, though it is long since the former Department 
was systematically worked and catalogued; and I should not be 
surprised if avvon turned up in the trenches or anywhere else there 
where the environment is suitable. Nomzades semrargus is reported 
by Paux common on the dunes of Malo-les-Bains; N. cyllarus, 
very rare in Nord, and is hitherto unrecorded from Pas de Calais. 
A. corydon, rave in Nord; I observed it near Azincourt in August, 
1902; A. bellargus reported in a single locality in the Forest of Mormal, 
‘but not elsewhere,” by Le Roi. The part of the Pas de Calais 
worked by my friend and correspondent M. Postel of Foneqvillers 
just behind the Allied lines—I trust he is well, and I am sure he is 
undismayed by his warlike surroundings—is otherwise singularly 
poor in butterfly life, though Papilio machaon abounds. I suspect, 
therefore, that the dark Lycznid females are forms of the protean 
icarus: perhaps some reader of the ‘ Entomologist’ can identify with 
more particularity —H. R.-B. 
APATURA IRIS AT BoURNEMOUTH.—It may be of interest to record 
that a male specimen of A. 277s was taken at rest on one of the piles 
on Bournemouth: Pier the last week in July. Except for a slight 
chip in right hind wing it is perfect. Can any readers inform me if 
this species has been taken in Bournemouth before ?—Soruy TatcHELL; 
Karenza, Heathwood Road, Bournemouth, August 19th, 1916. 
SOCIETIES. 
Tue Sourn Lonpon EnromonocicaL AND Narurat History 
Society.—June 22nd.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 
chair.—Dr. Robertson, a larva of Cleora jubata (glabraria) from the 
New Forest, which was wholly suffused with black coloration.—Mr. 
Priske, a series of the very local beetle, Copris lunaris, and pointed 
out the sexual dimorphism in the development of the frontal horn.— 
Dr. Chapman, the larva of the sawtly, Cimbex sylvarwm, a large 
species on birch, and stated that the ova laid by a virgin female would 
produce all males.—Mr. Carr, a spider from the Wye Valley, and 
reported on the species of Lepidoptera he had recently met with 
there, including Leptosia sinapis, Asthena blomeri, Brenthis seiene, 
B. euphrosyne, Abraxas sylvata, Perinephele lancealis, Cymatophora 
