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E. tithonus. — I do not remember seeing this near Henley. 

 Lately (August 13th-26th) I have looked expressly for it among 

 the hills and dry valleys without success. I saw it, however, in 

 numbers near the bottom of the steep northern escarpment * on 

 August 20th, 1915, and Mr. Rowland -Brown tells me it is 

 common in the loicei- dingles of the part of the Chilterns known 

 to him. 



E.jartina and C. pamphilus. — Common. 



I may add here the record of a remarkable find made 

 last year. On September 21st, 1914, a female of the North 

 American Papilio ]jhilenor, Linn., was brought to me. It had 

 been taken in a cottage garden a mile from Henley ; it was 

 in excellent condition, and when found in the early morning 

 appeared torpid with cold. The cottagers declared that they 

 had seen it, or a butterfly like it, fly over their garden about 

 three weeks before. No information was forthcoming as to who 

 had let this insect loose or how far it had travelled, but it was 

 not the only exotic Papilio seen in England last season. In the 

 'Field,' September 26th, 1914, p. 551, a correspondent wrote 

 that he had seen (but not captured) on September 6th, in bis 

 garden at Warminster, Wilts, a large Papilio which he thought 

 was almost certainly P. asterius {^='polyxenes), also a North 

 American form. Mr. J. H. Durrant also told me that an 

 observer in yet another part of the country had seen a Papilio 

 which he supposed to be an Oriental species. 



CCENOPACHYS HARTIGII, Eatz. (BEACONID^), A 

 GENUS AND SPECIES NEW TO BEITAIN. 



By G. T. Lyle, F.E.S. 



(Plate X., Fig. 3.) 



As recorded in the Ent. Mo. Mag. (vol. 51, p. 169) Dr. D. 

 Sharp has recently obtained the beetle Hi/jwphloeus linearis, F., 

 in the New Forest, having discovered it in the burrows of the 

 common Tomicus hidens in fallen branches of Pinus si/lvestris. 

 With these Coleoptera Dr. Sharp also bred several braconids, 

 which he kindly passed on to me. I have been much interested 

 to recognise in these a genus and species new to Britain, 

 Coenopachys hartigii, Eatz., easily distinguished by the some- 

 what extraordinary thickening of the radial and cubital nervures 

 of the upper wing in the male. 



Eatzeburg mentions (Ichn. d. Forst. vol. 2, p. 33) that he 



'■'•' Cf. Mr. Bussey Bell's statement, " abundant ... at foot of hills." 



