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which I believe no one disputes, that the insect is double-brooded, 
but the question still remains open, is it double-brooded in 
districts where the holly alone is found? The evidence that it 
is double-brooded in some parts of the New Forest is conclusive, 
but there are many large areas in that extensive tract, ten miles 
in length, where the ivy is not found; for instance, at Hinchieslea 
the holly is very abundant, and in the spring Lycena argiolus is 
common. I have searched in vain for it in July and August, and 
having made a most careful examination all round the enclosure, 
I could find no ivy. Then I had the testimony of James, George, 
and Charles Gulliver, to the effect that in their experience the 
insect was not in the New Forest double-brooded. I may remark 
that Hincheslea is quite isolated from the rest of the forest by a 
wide expanse of heath surrounding it. In the Rinefield Sandys 
district, where there is a considerable quantity of ivy, I have 
spent many weary hours in beating for the larva in autumn, but 
without success. It will be apparent that all this evidence was of 
a negative character, and I therefore forbore to publish it, and a 
reference to my communication will show that I have not written 
one word to the effect that Lycena argiolus was not double- 
brooded in the New Forest, well knowing the great extent of the 
ground. The ivy climbs deciduous trees only as arule. I have 
but once seen it on the holly; that was in my own garden under 
artificial conditions. Upon the whole, I am inclined to maintain 
my position that Lycena argiolus is in England both monogoneutic 
and digoneutic, and should be very glad to have any further 
evidence of its single-broodedness. There are three other 
British species regarding which distinct evidence of a second 
emergence of the imago would be valuable, viz., Argynnis selene, 
A. euphrosyne, and Euchloé cardamines. I have never captured 
any of these insects in the autumn, but in the very wet summer 
of 1879 I took, in the New Forest, Argynnis selene on the 9th 
August, but I regard this as a case of retarded emergence.— 
J. JENNER WEIR; Beckenham, Kent, May 12, 1886. 
LycNA ARGIOLUS IN SOMERSETSHIRE.—In this district, where 
both holly and ivy are somewhat plentiful, Lycena argiolus is 
generally distributed, but not abundant. During the four years 
that I have been in this locality I have always noticed it both in 
the spring and autumn. It usually makes its first appearance 
about the third week in April, and both sexes may be seen flying 
