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Vernet. Those with * are not British.—W. J. Lucas; Kingston-on- 
Thames. 
RaApPHIDIA MACULICOLLIS (NEUROPTERA).—In connection with my 
note on this snake-fly (antea, p. 129), I may note that I have 
received a pupa from Dr. David Sharp, which he took at Braemore 
in Scotland in June of the present year. This one is a female, and 
an interesting point about it is that its long ovipositor is folded back 
and lies closely pressed to the dorsal surface of the abdomen.—W. J. 
Lucas; Kingston-on-Thames. 
LoneEvity oF EPINEPHELE IANIRA.—I believe it is generally 
considered that the Satyridze are usually short-lived butterflies, there- 
fore it may be worth recording that a freshly emerged female H. canira 
I captured in coitw on July 2nd last lived in captivity until Aug. 28th, 
making fifty-eight 
Tar INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON THE Hatcuine or LEPIDOP- 
TEROUS Eaas.—As an example of the influence temperature has on 
the development and hatching of eggs of Lepidoptera, the following 
is a good instance. On May 30th last a Pveris brassice deposited a 
batch of forty-one eggs during warm weather, but on June 2nd the 
temperature suddenly fell many degrees, and cold, wet weather set 
in and continued so for the next fortnight ; consequently, the eggs did 
not hatch until June 16th, remaining in the egg state seventeen days. 
At mid-day on August 10th, during fine and very warm weather, I 
watched three P. brassice depositing; in all, five batches of eggs were 
laid. All these hatched on August 15th quite early in the morning, 
the egg state lasting only four and a half days, due to the weather 
remaining exceptionally warm throughout, thus making a difference 
of twelve and a half days in the time of hatching.—F. W. Fronawk. 
GyYNANDROUS ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA ab. VARLEYATA.—Of the 
only two specimens of wild Abraxas varleyata I bred this year, the 
produce of seven hundred collected pupz, one has both the left-side 
wings male, 2. e. with the usual white rays characteristic of the sex, 
but the right-side wings female, 7.e. without white rays, as is usual 
in that sex. Apparently it is a gynandrous specimen.—Gro. T. 
Porritt, Elm Lea, Huddersfield, September Ath, 1909, 
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Sugar A Faure In JuNE AND Juty.— Mr. Everett (antea, 
p. 235) notes the scarcity of moths during the months of June 
and July in Cambs. My experience has been similar. I have 
“treacled”’ night after night without a single moth visiting the trees. 
This could hardly have been due to bad weather, as I caught a good 
number at ‘light’? in these months, and treacle paid well from the 
middle of August to the beginning of September (I took about fifty 
on twelve trees on August 26th), although the weather has been 
almost as bad as in June and July. I think that as flowers have 
been abundant this season, in spite of the bad weather, the moths 
may have found them more attractive than artificial sweets.— 
H. P. Jones; Westwood, Woodlands Road, Gt. Shelford, Cambs. 
