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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



London, but those who were able to stay over the week-end took the 

 opportunity to visit Abbot's Wood, where a pleasant morning was 

 spent, the afternoon being devoted to a well-earned rest in the 

 garden, where the scene was enlivened by the numbers of Pyrameis 

 atalanta that visited the flower beds. Some additional interest was 

 manifested in the meeting from the fact that it was held at the house 

 where the late Professor Huxley spent the later years of his life. 



Eesting Habit of Hipparchia semele. — I was very interested 

 in Mr. Eowland-Brown's note {antea, p. 218) on the resting habit of 

 Hipjjarchia semele at Aberdovey, and having recently returned from 

 the same coast, I am able to inform him that as far as my observa- 

 tions went seviele is confined to the sandhills. My opportunities 

 were limited, as I was very late for this species, but I observed it 

 frequently on the sandhills at Llanbedr (where I was staying), 

 Harlecli and, on my single visit, at Aberdovey. I worked very 

 considerably over the country for some six miles back, from Llanbedr 

 and Harlech, and on one occasion for about the same distance behind 

 Portmadoc, but did not see a single specimen, although much of the 

 country is just the kind where one would expect it. Of course it 

 may have been over on the inland ground, but I do not think so, as 

 taking a line through Pararge megcera (which was very plentiful), 

 these were certainly as fresh — if not fresher — on the higher ground, 

 than by the sea. The habit of lying over on its side that Mr. 

 Rowland-Brown describes is very familiar to me, and I have noticed 

 it much more frequently with semele in its chalky and sandhill 

 localities, than when it occurs on peaty ground, but I think the habit 

 is not an uncommon one among Satyridae. I have certainly observed 

 it in Epinephele ianira and Erebia ejnj^hron. The habit of resting 

 on pine trunks is also very familiar, and in the New Eorest I have 

 even found it settled there after sundown. In general H. seviele can 

 scarcely be considered a flower-loving butterfly, but on occasions — 

 as Mr. Rowland-Brown found at Aberdovey — it will visit them in 

 some numbers. Two instances occur to me : the first, many years 

 ago at marjoram blossoms in a hollow on the Polegate Downs, and 

 the second in the present year at scabious on the Ciiffe Hill, Lewes. 

 On this last occasion the scabious was growing in among long grass, 

 and semele was resting on the flowers in considerable numbers. 

 There is much ground behind Llanbedr, apparently exactly similar 

 to that upon which Lycana avion occurs in North Cornwall, but I 

 know of no one who has worked there at the right time. The locality 

 is quite new to me and apparently a very rich one. I hope on some 

 future occasion to have an opportunity of visiting it earlier in the 

 year, when Mr. Arkle's avion suggestion could be put to the test. — 

 Russell James; Brockenhurst, Bloomfield Road, Highgate, N., 

 September 16th, 1915. 



Hibernated Examples of Vanessa antiopa. — In his note in the 

 'Entomologist' {antea, p. 220), Mr. A. H. Jones states that in his 

 opinion V. antiopa breeds in this country and adds " why should it 

 not " ? I think this question can easily be answered. The number 

 of specimens which survive hibernation in Britain are undoubtedly 



