62 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Lycm=NA ARGIoLUS—I am at a loss to understand how the 
idea originated that the larva of the second brood of this species 
feeds on the blossoms of the ivy; it is quite possible that 
the full-fed larva may have been found feeding on the blossom or 
beaten from the ivy when in bloom, but on what did the young 
larve feed, as every one knows that the second brood of 
L. argiolus is over long before the time that the ivy blossoms ? My 
belief is that it feeds on the leaves of either of these trees in the 
localities where it occurs. In one part of Epping Forest I have 
seen this species out in abundance before the holly has 
blossomed, although I am well aware that it frequents the 
blossom, no doubt the same as other butterflies frequent other 
flowers, for the purpose of feeding on the honey they contain. 
That it feeds on the young leaves of the holly I have had 
ocular demonstration, as some few years since I obtained some 
ova of this species, which I gave to my friend Mr. Wellman, who 
fed them up and got them into pups, but they did not for some 
cause or other emerge into the perfect state. We gave some of 
the larvee to the late Edward Newman, and he published a full 
description of the same and the manner of feeding. Not having 
the volume of the ‘ Entomologist’ by me, I cannot give the date, 
but it was subsequent to ‘ British Butterflies’ being published. 
Do away with the “ blossom theory,” and you have no difficulty 
in accounting for the two broods of ZL. argiolus, although I am 
inclined to think that the so-called second brood is only a partial 
one, 2. é@., the descendants of the very early emerged specimens. 
I have on several occasions seen numerous specimens of the 
second brood in the part of Epping Forest referred to, and in 
other places, but never in anything like the numbers of the spring 
specimens. ‘The earliest date I have seen it on the wing was one 
year on the 12th April, when I took four specimens, and ten days 
afterwards the species was out in abundance, and in the finest 
condition. In conclusion, I will merely add that I do not think 
any entomologist has ever seen L. argiolus on the wing when the ivy 
was in bloom in October or November.—C. J. Breas; 8, Stanley 
Terrace, West Ham Park, E., February 2, 1886. 
LycHNA ARGIOLUS IN THE Mipianps.—I am afraid Mr. W. 
Harcourt Bath’s knowledge of the entomology of the Midlands 
cannot be very extensive, at all events so far as L. argiolus is 
