236 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" A Bare Butterfly. — Mr. William Dale writes from the Hampshire 

 Field Club, Southampton : — ' It will interest many of your readers to hear 

 that there was captured in this country on Friday last a specimen of that 

 very rare butterfly, Argynnis lathonia, the Queen of Spain fritillary. It 

 was caught by my son on the higher part of the sandy beach at Highcliffe, 

 in Christchurch Bay, at the entrance of the chine. It was in perfect con- 

 dition, but as it is hardly reckoned a British species the supposition is it 

 came from France, favoured by the exceptionally fine weather and southerly 

 winds.'" 



Limenitis siRTLLA in Essex. — On July 21st last, I caught a specimen 

 of L. sibylla in Hazeley Hall Wood, where I have collected constantly for 

 the last twenty-five years without previously seeing this butterfly. — E. A. 

 Fitch ; Maldon. 



Erebia jEthiops (blandina) in the Isle of Skye. — This butterfly was 

 not uncommon, on the first day of August, on some grassy cliffs on both 

 sides of the Leath Allt, a stream running into the sea on the east coast of 

 Skye, between Staffin and Portrigh (Portree). The specimen that I secured 

 for examination was not at all wild, and was easily caught. I also captured 

 and released, after examination, Ccenonympha pamphilus, Polyommatus 

 icarus, and Pieris rapce. I also saw, but did not take, a species of Epine- 

 phele, probably ianira. In the Pass of Brander, near Loch Awe, on the 

 mainland, I noticed Pyrameis (Vanessa) atalanta. — G. W. Kirkaldy ; 

 Wimbledon. 



Chrysophanus (Polyommatus) phlceas var. schmidtii. — Mr. Robson 

 mentions in his ' Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne' that Miss Annie Rossie captured two 

 examples of this variety of C. phlaas " a little to the north of Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne in the summer of 1895." 



Cyaniris aroiolus, L., in London. — On July 29th last I captured 

 three specimens, one male and two females, of this butterfly in the garden 

 here, and saw a fourth. They were flying in the bright sunshine, between 

 two and five o'clock in the afternoon, and were attracted by the privet 

 flowers. They are in good condition, and had doubtless bred in the 

 immediate neighbourhood, probably in this garden, as there are holly-trees 

 and ivy which flowers. I think this occurrence is particularly interesting, 

 as we are within three miles and a-half of Charing Cross ; and may add 

 that duriug a number of years that my father and myself have noticed the 

 butterflies here, we have neither seen nor heard of this species occurring in 

 the neighbourhood. — Hamilton H. Druce; The Beeches, Circus Road, 

 London, N.W. 



Macroglossa stellatarum abundant. — M. stellatarum is nearly as 

 abundant here as at Brighton (ante, p. 211), but always singly. I have 

 not yet noticed this species in pairs here. A jasmine plant growing up the 

 side of the house seems to be especially favoured. — Alan W. Cardinall; 

 The Cliffe, Limpley-Stoke, near Bath. 



This species seems to swarm here; another batch appears to have just 

 arrived.— E. A. Fitch ; Maldon, Aug. 20th, 1899. 



Spilosoma lubricipeda in August. — On Aug. 8th last I noticed a 

 male specimen of S. lubricipeda on the garden fence here, and on the 12th 

 of the month a male example of the same species emerged in au outdoor 



