236 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Agriades corydon var. syngrapha in Bucks. — As I feared when 

 I published in the ' Entomologist ' last year a note on the discovery 

 of this charming variety, the dealers and other collectors have paid 

 especial attention to the Chiltern Hills this season, and, if what I 

 hear is true, some hundreds of examples have been deported during 

 the past month. My consolation is that one of the most assiduous 

 of these gentlemen informed me that he lias found var. syngrapha, 

 Kef., at several other spots than that in which, I assume, he locates 

 my particular ground. Indeed, I can corroborate the observation 

 that this form is by no means so local as I myself thought to be the 

 case. Pushing my cycle on September 7th up a steep hill at a 

 considerable distance from where I took syngrapha last year, I boxed 

 a perfect example. The air was heavy and the sky overcast, and I 

 had seen hardly an insect on the wing ; only a few Geometers, chiefly 

 Anaitis plagiata. — H. Rowland-Brown. 



Heterocera in Middlesex. — Among Geometers (new, I think, 

 to this district) I boxed a perfect and recently emerged example of 

 Chloroclysta siterata, Hfn., in July from a fence about a quarter of a 

 mile from our house in Oxhey Lane. Another welcome addition to 

 our local list is Halias bicolorana — a mutilated specimen picked up 

 on the tennis lawn on August 5th. The only other local record 

 appears to be that of a single specimen near Harrow, June 23rd, 1893 

 (' Harrow Butterflies and Moths,' vol. i, p. 23) ; and of C. siterata in 

 Middlesex, Muswell Hill (' Trans. City of London Soc.,' 1900, p. 72). 

 Hypcna rostralis is another moth not hitherto observed by me here. 

 — H. Rowland-Brown. 



Occurrence of Daphnis nerii in Derbyshire. — On August 21st 

 a gentleman named Mr. C. H. Oliver brought me a fine specimen of 

 Daphnis ncrii, which he had taken on August l8th in a conservatory 

 at Littleover in Derbyshire. As it had been confined in a small box 

 for three days, the edges of the fore wings were naturally damaged, 

 otherwise it was quite lively and in good condition. The specimen 

 wag a male and measured 110 mm. across the fore wings. — J. H. 

 Grant ; Ward End, Birmingham. 



Macroglossa stellatarum in London. — I saw a Macroglossa 

 stellatarum flying round a delphinium in flower in the garden of this 

 house one evening in the third week of last July ; Harold Hodge ; 

 9, Highbury Place, London, N. 



Pyrameis atalanta, Cyaniris argiolus, and Macroglossa 

 stellatarum in Donegal., — In the first week of May, 1917, I found 

 Cyaniris argiolus in fair numbers in large woods near Rathmullen, 

 Ramelton, and Milford, co. Donegal. On July 14th, 1917, I noticed 

 a fresh-looking specimen of Pyrameis atalanta on the slopes of 

 Ganiamoro, near Carrigart, co. Donegal, and on August 27th I saw 

 another atalanta in Drummonaghan Woods, near Ramelton. On 

 July 19th I took a badly worn Macroglossa stellatarum on the sand 

 dunes near Rathmullen, co. Donegal, and saw many others in the 

 vicinity. — G. Coulter, Bank House, Ramelton, co. Donegal. 



