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white ; underside — narrow broken yellowish-green bands and broad 

 white ones. The sexes are similar in colouring and markings, 

 though the female is slightly the larger on the average. I bred out 

 an example of the second brood from one of three larvae found on 

 seed-stems of a yellow-flowered crucifer like mustard, which served 

 as food -plant also of Pontia daplidice and Zegns eii'pJieme. As with 

 Euchlo'c lucilla on the North-west Frontier of India I found E. belemia 

 hurrying about the crests of stony ridges, where Melitcea clidyma and 

 P. machaon occurred. I took a good series of belemia and three 

 dark aberrations. The misquotation "the Doll butterfiy " and 

 " '? Hytha (Nytha) species" refers to Satyrus telephassa, common on 

 Jebel Qizil Robat, and abundant at Khanihin (October) and in 

 North Persia (July to September). At Qizil Robat I took ^li^o Satynis 

 anthe var. enervata, a glorified " grayling," which settled on con- 

 glomerate rock. I also there bred out some forty examples of 

 P. machaon from larvae fed on Puta tuherculata, and found three 

 more of its food-plants, all belonging to the Umbellifera3. In the 

 first week of December I found on a thorny bush on the Piris Dagh 

 Pass in Kurdistan two cocoons containing fragments of the pupa- 

 cases of a moth related to the Moon-moth. The only butterflies that 

 I saw near there were one Pieris rapa, two Teracolus fausta, and 

 several Colias ediisa and Pyrameis cardui. Of birds Magpies were 

 remarkably common, and I saw the English Robin and heard his 

 cheery, little song again. The Indian Robin seems to have got up 

 late and left its chest behind, and so cannot claim the name of 

 Redbreast.— H. D. Peile, Lieut.-Col. I. M.S. ; Mosul, December loth, 

 1919. 



Retarded Development of CffiNONYMPHA tiphon Larv.e. — At the 

 end of July, 1918, I obtained a few eggs from a female Ccenouymplia 

 tiphon captured in Perthshire, and these hatched about the middle 

 of x\ugust. The larvae were confined on potted plants of grasses, 

 chiefly fescue-grass, covered with gauze and kept out of doors under 

 natural conditions as far as possible. Since the time of hatching 

 they have been now and again examined, the last time being at the 

 end of last October, when I found five apparently quite healthy and 

 preparing for hibernation, and they were then only about one-third 

 grown and sixty-Uvo weeks old. Should they survive their second 

 winter and finally attain full growth it will prove an interesting 

 record, as I am not aware of another instance of this species passing 

 through two years before completing the metamorphosis, but possibly 

 it may not be unusual for a certain number of tip)hon larvae to do so 

 in a state of nature in their northern habitat, being subjected to 

 such severe climatic conditions. — F. W. Frohawk ; January, 1920. 



Hibernation op Aglais urtic.^. — I should like to confirm the 

 observations of south country entomologists with regard to the 

 appearances of this butterfly last year. In my district we had an 

 unusually large number of hibernated specimens in the spring ; in 

 fact, it and Euchloe cardamines were by far our commonest spring 

 butterflies, the latter being remarkable to me for showing an unusually 

 large proportion of extremely fine females. There were plenty of the 

 larvae of Aglais urtica to be seen, but the summer brood was almost 



