188 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Apatuea Iris in Sussex. — I captured with the net, on the 

 morning of the 24th inst., outside a wood close to this place, a 

 female specimen of Apatura Iris, and in the afternoon of the same 

 day secured a male at the same spot; the former was in good 

 condition, but the latter rather dilapidated. On a previous day I 

 had missed a specimen in the same locality, owing to a strong 

 wind blowing at the time. — H. T. Hutchinson ; East Marden 

 Rectory, Chichester, July, 1882. 



Singular Habit of Apatura Iris. — It seems to be the 

 invariable habit of Apatura Iris, upon first emerging from the 

 chrysalis, to cling to the empty case with the head uppermost for 

 five or six hours ; and then reverse the position, and still clinging 

 to the puparium, remain witVi head down and wings upward for 

 a similar time. For the first attitude it is easy to account, as the 

 wings could not well be developed in any other way; but why the 

 insect should turn round and continue so long in the second pos- 

 ture I cannot understand. I should be glad to have the opinions 

 of others, as well as observations in resjaect to other species upon 

 their emergence holding, or not, to the pupa-case at all. Some 

 Argynnis Adippe that I have been breeding, kindly sent by my 

 friend Mr. Buckell, of Romsey, so far as I could see, passed from 

 the chrysalis at once to to the top or side of the breeding-cage, to 

 allow for the falling down and expansion of the wings, and this 

 perhaps is the prevailing custom ; the reversed position on the 

 pupa-ruins being seemingly confined to "their Imperial Majesties " 

 alone. — Joseph Anderson, jun. ; Chichester. 



The Three British Species of Procris taken on the same 

 Hill. — Cliff Hill, at the foot of which the town of Lewes is 

 situated, is a chalk hill quite isolated from the rest of the South 

 Downs, by the river and town on the west, by brook-lands in the 

 south and east, and by the Weald of Sussex on the north ; it is 

 nearly circular, and has a diameter of between two and three 

 miles. In the number of species of Lepidoptera, many rare, 

 it is, so far as I know, unequalled by any other part of the 

 South Downs with which I am acquainted. Last year Agrotis 

 cinerca was taken in some numbers, and this year a few were 

 captured ; I was fortunate enough to take a fine female. The 

 southern slopes of this hill are the head-quarters in England of 

 Trigonopliora emp)yrea; Aporophyla australis is often found on 

 the hill, and each year new surprises greet the careful observer. 



