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summit of Leicester Peak (1954 ft.) yielded the largest numbers, 

 including H. misippus, P. clelia, P. cenea, and P. devwdocus, which 

 sported indiscriminately with each other in mid-air and sudden rapid 

 flights. About a mile below the summit, while passing through a 

 native village, I had the good fortune to see a white man on a 

 verandah, who turned out to be Mr. Denton, of the C.M.S. ; he wel- 

 comed me in his house and supplied refreshment, much needed 

 after my whole day's outing in the mountain woods in a tropical sun. 

 I am shortly going out to Malta to reside, and should be glad of 

 reference to any books or papers dealing with the Lepidoptera and 

 other orders of — (1) Malta ; (2) Sicily and Southern Italy ; (3) Tunis 

 and Tripoli. I believe Malta, from a collector's point of view, is a 

 very poor spot. — H. F. Hunt ; 2, Melville Avenue, Pembroke Dock, 

 Wales, March 28th, 1919. 



Notes and Papers on Mediterranean .Localities, including Malta, 

 have been published in the ' Entomologist ' by Paymaster-in-Chief 

 Gervase Mathew, R.N., Mr. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, E.N., and others ; 

 on Sicilian Lepidoptera by Miss Fountaine, Mr. J. G. Barrett, and 

 Mr. T. H. Leach.— (Ed.) 



KEVIEW. 



Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Parts iii, iv, 

 March 29th, 1919. 



The instalment of Proceedings, published with Parts iii, iv of the 

 ' Transactions of the Entomological Society ' — delayed, as is the case 

 unfortunately with most scientific publications in these days — contains 

 several notes of particular interest to British Lepidopterists. In the 

 first place 1 should like to draw attention to Dr. R. C. L. Perkins' 

 observations on breeding experimentswithPararg'eeg'en'a, race egerides, 

 Stgr., in Devonshire (pp. Ix-lxiv), which appear to solve the mystery 

 of the light and dark forms of the spring emergence. Dr. Perkins' 

 investigations prove that the examples which hibernate in the pupal 

 stage produce the light, and that the early spring-fed larvae produce 

 the dark, the two forms sometimes overlapping and interbreeding. 

 The occasional very dark examples taken with the gen. vern. he 

 attributes to the holding over and hibernation of the normal gen. cest. 

 until the following spring. " No definite tendency to dimorphism," 

 he adds, "such as is seen in the spring has been observed in the 

 second generation." Of typical cgcria I think the emergence may 

 be almost continuous in the south. I have records of its first 

 appearance quite early in February ; I have taken it myself quite 

 fresh in the last weeks of October on the Riviera, where also I found 

 a much worn brood flying in the last weeks of March, and Tutt records 

 specimens observed as late as November. 



Another note of importance is contributed by Capt. E. Bagwell- 

 Purefoy (pp. clxviii-clxix), who exhibited a series of home-bred Lyccena 

 arion with their pupa-cases. From this note we get a further insight 

 into the symbiosis of the larva with the ants M. scahrinodis and M. 

 IcBvinodis, the subterranean pupation and final emergence of the 



