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tHE ENTOMOLOOIST. 



author means T. ilicis. I took no jEsculi at Biarritz and 

 Guethary. Boucbes-du-Ehone : Vallon des Grides, Col de Bre- 

 tagne, very common (Siepi) ; Fontvielle, July 19th-21st, 1912 

 (F. E. Lowe). Drome : Nyons, beginning of July, 1911 

 (Rowland-Brown). Gironde : Pessac and Bouliac (Trimoulet). 

 Haute-Garonne : occurs in tbe same localities witb Ilicis up to 

 900 m. (Caradja). Indre : Gargilesse, ratber rare (Sand) ; a some- 

 what doubtful identification I should think. Lozere : specimens 

 in the Fallou collection at Paris from Florae ; and I have taken 

 it there also. Maine-et-Loire : described as rather rare by the 

 late M. Delahaye, this being the most westerly and northerly 

 locality where it has been observed. Pyrenees- Orientales : Le 

 Vernet, very common (Bellier, and many others) ; the only 

 "form" at Sorede (Sprongerts) ; Collioure, and generally 

 (Piondou). Var : (Segond), probably Draguignan; Hyeres 

 (Powell) ; Ste. Baume (F. E. Lowe). 



Lastly, it may be of interest to add that, while M. Oberthiir, 

 on Guenee's evidence, mentions ilex (yeuse) as the one food-plant 

 of T. (Bsculi, Eouast (' Catalogue des Chenilles Europe6nes 

 connues,' Lyon, 1883), quotes Ulmus caiwpestris, Acacia, Quercus 

 robur, and Q. ilex for T. ilicis, on the authority of Donzel, 

 and Q. coccifera, April, on that of Martorell. To these M. 

 Frionuet adds ^sculus hippocastaiium ; and M. J. de Johannis 

 ("Lepids. du Morbihan," 'Ann. Soc. Ent. France,' 1908, p. 703), 

 blackthorn. 



In the 'Entomologist' for 1892 (vol. xxv. p. 193) Mr. F. 

 Bromilow describes a series of bred T. spini, among which 

 appeared to be two hybrids with T. ilicis. In a subsequent note 

 {loc. cit. p. 291) he revises this opinion on the ground that the 

 supposed hybrids were no more than examples of var. Lynceus. 

 This second note has evidently been misinterpreted by M. 

 Frionnet, for, in his book on the earlier stages of the butterflies 

 of France ('Prem. Etats des Lipids, p. 87), he quotes Mr. 

 Bromilow as the authority that Ilicis sometimes pairs with 

 Spini, while he makes no distinction at all between bsculi and 

 what he conceives to be the type thereof. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. 



With Remarks thereon, by T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Mr._ Rowland-Brown asks me to revise, if necessary, some remarks 

 on ilicis and cesmdi, which I wrote to Mr. Rayward last March, with a 

 view to his adding them to his article on these species, I think they may 

 very well go as they are, but I have taken the opportunity again carefully to 

 go over my specimens with the object of trying to make a point or two 

 clearer to myself if to no one else. I find I may confine the results of this 

 inquisition to giving some details as to the process of the sedeagus that 

 Mr. Rayward regarded as belonging to the system of " cornnti," in which 



