286 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
rence of this butterfly in Britain was in 1876, when four specimens 
were recorded, one at Neath, September 6th; two in Sussex, middle 
of September and October 17th; and one in Dorset. The last recora 
was at Sandown, I. of Wight, September 13th, 1908. I may add, 
Major Chavasse has very kindly lent me this beautiful specimen for 
figuring. It is a female, and its full expanse measures 109 mm. 
When closely examined under a lens the specimen shows traces of 
being slightly worn, by the loss of some of the scales and by very fine 
scratches on the wing surface; the ground colour also is rather duller 
than in bred examples, otherwise it is perfect. The abdomen has 
considerably shrunk having the appearance of being quite empty. 
These facts suggest that the insect has migrated. Major Chavasse is 
to be congratulated on making this important and interesting addition 
to the Irish fauna.—F. W. Fronawk; November, 1916. 
ENToMOLOGICAL JOTTINGS FROM THE FRontT.—A few notes on the 
lepidoptera of the Somme valley may be of interest to your readers. 
At the end of May this year I was stationed at a place where I was 
likely to be for more than the usual ten days, and so turned my 
attention to my old hobby. We first tried to find some Cerwra 
vinula larvee to amuse us, but though there were numerous poplar 
trees near we did not find any. The first I found were on a small 
bush of P. alba, and then they were to be taken in plenty on this and 
P. tremula, which was growing all round the woods there. While 
searching these I also found the following larvee; Amorpha popula, 
chiefly singly, but on one leaf I found seven ova and on another five. 
These were laid in patches, and evidently by one moth in each case, 
The larve varied from blue green to bright yellow green, and only in 
a very few cases were red spotted. About half my pupz produced 
imagines the same year. Notodonta ziczac, all were double brooded, 
one very light larva taken from sallow. Clostera anachoreta and 
reclusa, all double brooded. P, palpina, dictea, A. megacephala, and 
rumicis. Sphine ligustri were very plentiful, and also Macroglossa 
stellatarum. The latter I watched depositing eggs at close quarters. 
It did not settle, but seizing a leaf with its legs paused a second, with 
its wings still in motion. When disturbed it returned again several 
times to the same plant. The resulting imagines unfortunately 
emerged in October when packed for transit to England, and were in 
consequence spoiled. One Mimas tili@ was found on lime and 
another on elm; the latter refused lime or anything else except elm. 
Very few moths came to the lamps in the room. One B. rubt was 
taken by this means and ova obtained. Sugar was tried on one night 
only, but with very little result, except with G. derasa, of which there 
were two or three on each tree. Butterflies observed included 
P. machaon, M. galatea, A. paphia (but not nearly so commonly as 
last year a few miles from the same place), A. aglaia, L. sibylla, 
A. iris, G. c-album, A. levana, C. hyale, but no edusa. After we had 
moved farther north we found the larve of C. elpenor swarming in 
all the ditches.—H. C. JeppERE-FisHeErR, Major. 
NEUROPTERA AND QODONATA FROM SatonicaA.—Captain Studd, 
F.E.S., sent to Mr. A. Jones from Salonica a number of insects, 
amongst which were the following: Palpares lbelluloides, Linn., 
