Z THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



body beneath testaceous ; sternum with black suffusions, and the 

 abdominal segmental incisures also black ; legs black, beneath longi- 

 tudinally ochraceous ; antennae black, basal joint testaceous ; rostrum 

 black, the basal joint beneath sometimes testaceous ; antennae with 

 the first and second joints longest and subequal in length, third 

 shortest ; pronotum with the basal area sparingly coarsely punctate, 

 and the margin between the anterior and posterior lobes also more 

 closely coarsely punctate ; basal area of scutellum and corium in- 

 cluding clavus coarsely punctate ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae, first joint about or almost reaching the anterior coxae ; anterior 

 femora beneath with a strong subapical spine. 



Long, 19-23 mm. 



Habitat. — Tonkin and Xieng Khouang, Ban Sai (E. Vitalis de 

 Salvaza). 



RHOPALOCERA OF THE UPPER LYS VALLEY, 

 NORTHERN FRANCE. 



By Capt. E. H. Mann, M.C, and Capt. Eveleigh, R.F.A. 



The following results obtained by two very amateur ento- 

 mologists during the past few months may possibly prove of 

 interest. The list of captures must, 1 fear, seem very meagre ; 

 but to a certain extent this can be explained by the fiict that the 

 weather was not of the best — a very large number of days being 

 very windy — andnlso to the fact that the best collecting hours 

 usually found both of us employed on our military duties, Avith 

 the result that expeditions were spasmodic, and, as a rule, late in 

 the afternoon. 



No specimens of Papilio viachaon were observed until August, 

 although several areas of reedy, marshy country were watched. 

 During the first week of August two were taken, followed by 

 several more the succeeding week. "Wheat and clover fields 

 situated on high ground seemed the favourite settling-place, 

 though two were observed settling on the warm stones of a 

 railway-track. Iphidide'i podalirms wits not seen, nor has it 

 ever been seen by M. de Wailly, a local entomologist. 



I would like to say here that comparison with M. de Wailly's 

 cabinet, the result of forty years' collection, proved interesting 

 and instructive, and the information obtained from him as to 

 the likely places for different species assisted us to a very large 

 extent. 



Pieris hrassicce and P. rapa appeared in their usual numbers. 

 Euchloe cardamines were plentiful up to the end of June, but 

 their disappearance was practically instantaneous. Leptosia 

 sinapis was not observed, and as only one specimen figures in M. 

 de Wailly's cabinet it is presumably infrequent in this locality. 



One specimen of Colias hy(de was taken early in June after 

 a long chase. During August they were observed in large 



