16 "THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The Hibernation of Lampides bceticus. — In volume ii. of Tutt's 

 "British Butterflies" the bionomics of this species are fully dis- 

 cussed, with copious observations from Dr. Chapman. The conclu- 

 sion arrived at by Dr. Chapman (p. 370) in respect to the stage in 

 which bceticus passes the winter is that normally it is a continuous- 

 brooded species, and carries with it from its tropical and sub-tropical 

 home the habit of continuity. The capture of imagines by me at 

 Hy^res in March-April, 1898, before Dr. Chapman's notes were 

 published, had led me to suppose that on the Kiviera hibernation 

 took place exclusively as imago. But a remark on the subject in a 

 recent letter from Mr. Charles Morris of Le Cannet suggests that 

 — assuming winter to mean the months of November to February 

 inclusive— Cannes indigenous bosticus do not " hibernate " at all. 

 Quoting a previous note of his in 1914, I transcribed in the ' Ento- 

 mologist,' vol. xlix. p. 151), "larvae in pea-pods ... at the end 

 of October, and in November ; ? imported from Algeria." Under 

 date November 11th, 1916, Mr. Morris adds : "I am getting a fair 

 number of larvae of bosticus in the pea-pods which the cook brings 

 in, and she tells me that these peas now in market are grown in the 

 neighbourhood of Grasse, and are not from Algiers, as was the case 

 two years ago." From this remark it would seem, therefore, that 

 the pea-feeding bceticus at all events winter in the pupal and imaginal 

 stage — in fact, carry on from one generation to another without 

 hibernation at all in the strict sense. By the end of November the 

 autumn pea-crop would be finished, and the larva presumably full- 

 fed before the bursting of the pod, and the maturity of the fruit 

 therein contained. — H. Rowland-Brown ; December 17th, 1916. 



ScoPARiA frequentella, S. PALLIDA, ETC. — I found that moss 

 growing on walls and sheds in a brickfield at Wakering contained 

 larvae of a Scoparia. These proved to he frequentella ; quite a crowd 

 of moths emerged, with them one *S'. pallida. Gelechia affinis was also 

 bred from the moss in some numbers. — F. G. Whittle ; 7, Marine 

 Avenue, Southend-on-Sea. 



Proutia betltlina Larva Feeding on Plantago. — A leaf of 

 Plantago lanceolata containing a larva of Gracilaria tringipennclla 

 was picked at Thorpe Bay on April 24th. The leaf was dropped 

 into a jar in which there was a larva of Proutia bcUdina. Tins at 

 once went for the plantain leaf and ate with an appetite. — F. G. 

 Whittle. 



Euvanessa antiopa in Kent. — In 'The Field' for November 18th 

 Mr. C. S. Mills records having seen a perfect specimen of Euvanessa 

 antiopa near Canterbury on October 28th last. It was basking in 

 the sun on an old branch of a tree ; it was very strong on the wing 

 when disturbed, and allowed him to get within a yard of it. This . 

 species appears to have been extremely rare this year ; the only 

 other specimen which has been recorded (' Entomologist ' for August, 

 p. 188) was seen by Mr. W. A. R. Jex Long near Glasgow on April 

 29th last ; consequently, a hibernated example, and from its large 

 size it was undoubtedly a female. — P. W. F. 



Late Appearance of Pararge egeria, var. Egerides, etc. — 

 With reference to my note in the December number of the 



