122 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
LycaNA ARGIOLUS.—I am as much surprised as Mr. Harwood 
(Entom. 88) to learn that Mr. Harcourt Bath and Mr. J. Jenner 
Weir are under the impression that Lycena argiolus is not 
double-brooded in the New Forest. The following records of 
my capture of specimens of the second brood of this species, in 
the New Forest, are extracted from my diaries for the years 
1866, 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874 :—‘“‘ 1866, July 18th, one 
female. 1868, July 2nd, one male; July 17th, one female; 
July 22nd, one male; July 23rd, one male. 1869, July 15th, one 
male. 1870, July 12th, one female. 1874, August 3rd, two 
females.”’ The capture of only nine specimens in five years 
certainly tends to confirm Mr. Harwood’s opinion, that the 
second brood of this species is partial. I have also taken 
specimens of the second brood in Kent, Sussex, and Monmouth- 
shire; but always sparingly. My experience of the first brood of 
L. argiolus is confined to May, 1882, during the first half of which 
month I found both sexes, in profusion, in the neighbourhood of 
Niton, and elsewhere in the Undercliff, Isle of Wight.—H. Goss ; 
Surbiton Hill, Surrey, April, 1886. 
Lyc®NA ARGIOLUS IN THE New Forest.—I find from my 
diary that in the year 1858 I took Lycena argiolus in the New 
Forest in August as well as in May. I found but few of the 
latter brood, which might be accounted for by heavy rains, which 
lasted until the 18th of August. In the autumns of 1859, 1861, 
1862, I also captured second broods. In the latter year, which 
was the last time I visited the Forest, there was plenty of ivy. I 
captured on October 23rd, 1858, at ivy-bloon, four Dasycampa 
rubiginea, two Xylina socia (petrificata), Agrotis saucia, Epunda 
nigra, Hoporina croceago, &c., in the New Forest.—WiLL1AM 
Farren; 14, King’s Parade, Cambridge, April, 1886. 
Lycmna ArGioLus.—Much has lately appeared in the ‘ Ento- 
mologist concerning this, the most delicate and elegant, if not 
the most brilliant, butterfly of the genus Lycena found in 
England, and much, doubtless, remains unrecorded which would 
throw additional light on its habits, both in the larval and imago 
states. My experience of this interesting little blue in the 
neighbourhood of Colchester, from 1872 to 1882, is to a great 
