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Arr/ymiis pandora, S. V. — As I did not spend the summer where the 

 purple pansies grew in the Blidah cedar forest, this seems to be the 

 only Arcii/)inis I met with in Algeria, and it was far from common. I 

 observed it at Teniet, and, I think, at Sebdou. 



Melanarfjia lucasi, Rbr. — T caught my first male on May 24th, 

 about three minutes' walk from the town of Teniet-el-Haad. A week 

 or ten days later this butterfly was swarming everywhere in that neigh- 

 bourhood. Some of the females were very richly coloured underneath. 

 It seems to me to combine some of the characteristics of M. inpygia 

 and M. galathea, but does not very closely resemble either of them. 



M. ines, Hffgg. — Not very common on the hills round Teniet. A 

 brightly marked form. 



Satijnis briseis var. major, Obth. — Not by any means widely distri- 

 buted. I came across a colony of it near Terney, a place about half- 

 way on the road between Tlemcen and Sebdou, in July. It was also 

 abundant in certain mountains about fifteen kilomet.es west of Sebdou 

 on August 9th, but the specimens were no longer fresh. It was a 

 very large form, nearly twice the size of an ordinary Central European 

 brist'is. 



S. semele var. aJgirica, Obth. — Very abundant all round Teniet, end 

 of May and throughout June. The males on the upper side show an 

 inclination to assuming the coloration of typical females, whilst the 

 females themselves are more brightly coloured than the type, but 

 not so much so as in var. aristaus. It also occurred commonly at 

 Sebdou. 



S. statilinus var. hansii, Aust. — Very common near Sebdou, end of 

 July and August, frequenting the foot of mountains. 



(To be concluded.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Thecla rubi. — In the report of the Lancashire and Cheshire Ento- 

 mological Society, I am credited with exhibiting microscopical pre- 

 parations to show the difference between androcouial scales and 

 ordinary scales of Thecia rubi. This was not the object of the exhibit, 

 and I am afraid our good secretaries have missed the point I specially 

 wished to call attention to, which was — the male Thecia rubi has the 

 power of entirely shedding the androconial scales in the little patch on 

 the fore wing. If your readers will examine their series with a lens 

 they will probably find in the specimens selected to show this patch 

 most distinctly that all the androconial scales have been shed, leaving 

 the ordinary scales quite perfect. Are they connected with scent- 

 glands ? — F. N. Pierce ; The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool. 



Unusual Dates of Emergence of some Moths. — On June 24th, 

 1905, I received some larvse of Macaria alternata. They were then 

 about a week old, and pupated between July 7th and 12th. One imago 

 emerged on July 18th, which is about the normal time for the second 

 brood specimens to appear, and I expected that all the moths would 

 emerge. No others, however, came up until December 20th, when I 



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