NOTES ON CNEPHASIA INCANANA, STTH. 99 



Melitseids, including/, lathonia and 7?. ino, M. artemis and 3/. 

 dictynna : Of the Vanessids, A. levana and E. ajitiopa (taken in 

 the city gardens also) ; Erehia medusa (once) ; P. nchine; and, last 

 of all, C. hero; while the Rouvray dispar msii'shes were also shared 

 with C tiji)/io/i (rf«rMs), a rare insect in France. For moths the 

 same wood was a very " New Forest." But I think I have said 

 enough to convince the entomologist that the destruction of the 

 Bois d'Holnon may have desolated one of the most fruitful 

 localities in the north of France. I have been told that that 

 other and larger forest east of Laon, where so many of us have 

 hunted day and night — the forest of Samoussy — has practically 

 disappeared ; that though for more than two years and a half not 

 a gun has been fired in this region, the Germans have razed the 

 forest to the ground and left barely a bush to mark the site 

 where we watched our first Melitcea maturna poised on the privet 

 bloom, or marked the elusive Limenitis popidi down from his 

 leafy heights to the little mud patch in the forest glade which 

 was its own particular and chosen wet canteen. Never again 

 shall we dare to bribe with a bottle of " demi-rouge " the guard of 

 the Laon-Liart non-stop to let us down from his van at Samoussy 

 " halte " ; never again of a June night will the " all-sorts' 

 man" trundle our paraphernalia from the aforesaid "halte" 

 through the dense mysterious tunnels of the forest of our dreams 

 to the little farm-house, auberge, and general store, whose 

 presiding genius announced himself to the world — entomological 

 and otherwise — as E. Hemmery, Representant en Vins. I trust 

 that he, good man, may have taken with him his vins engros — if 

 he had not handed on his inn to " Successeurs " before the storm 

 broke. They were too good for Teuton tastes. At all events, 

 may we see hippotho'e again a gleaming fire among the grassei of 

 Samoussy, and live to decide upon the spot for the nth. time the 

 specific identity or otherwise oiaurelia and athalia. 



NOTES ON CNEPHASIA IXC AN AN A, Stph. : 

 SINUANA, WiLK. 



By W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



I AM indebted to the kindness of Mr. F. C. Woodbridge for 

 a rather long series of C. incanana taken by him at Aviemorelast 

 year, which was sent to me as C. sinuana 1 The specimens were 

 much smaller than examples of that species found in the south 

 of England, the wing expanse being about 19 mm., but otherwise 

 they appeared to me to be pretty typical C. incanana ,- to make 

 certain of their identity, however, I sent on a male to Mr. F. N. 

 Pierce with a request that he would examine the genitalia ; Mr. 

 Pierce has kindly done this and informs me that they are true 

 C. incanana. 



