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A second brood appearance, unexpected in such a season, 
was made by a solitary Nisoniades tages on September 3rd. 
Colias edusa was first seen on August 10th at Corfe Castle 
(where I also procured some Adopea acteon on a dullish day). 
Several odd specimens were seen about Bournemouth, but I 
think this species dislikes heaths, and does not alight on 
heather. I saw it also from the train near Winchester, on 
August 27th, and twice at Altonin September. Agriades corydon 
was out on August 10th at Corfe, and quite fresh males on 
September 3rd in its very limited habitat at Alton. Pararye 
egeria I only saw once (Oakhanger, September 11th). P. megera 
was about as usual—not common here. 
On a sunny afternoon in October I observed with interest 
the different hibernating practices of two species. 4. urtice was 
flying frantically round and over the house, evidently searching 
for a suitable cranny as a refuge. G. rhammni fluttered up from a 
flower, settled on an ivy-leaf without the least investigation, and 
stayed there for the night. I noticed the same want of pre- 
meditation in this species in the autumn of 1915, when it flew to 
a leaf and stayed there for weeks. There is no attempt to get 
well inside, or, out of sight, and little reconnoitring or selection. 
On the other hand, I watched P. atalanta retire for the night 
into a holly bush, with a considerable amount of fuss, and it 
finally got well inside. It has been noted that Vanessids seem to 
be gregarious in hibernation. I doubt if this is intentional, but 
they reconnoitre the neighbourhood very thoroughly, and the 
same cranny or window eventually strikes the insect mind as 
suitable, for some reason not clear to us. During the two 
summers I have been here I have noted forty species of 
Rhopalocera within a radius of six miles. I think this is a 
pretty good record. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
SATYRUS HERMIONE IN MACEDONIA, AND SOME OTHER BALKAN 
ButTeRFuIES.—In my “ Supplementary Note on the Butterflies of 
South Macedonia,” published in the May number of the ‘ Ento- 
mologist’ (vol. liii, pp. 106-109), I noted the absence of Satyrus 
hermione from the reports of the several collections reviewed and 
discussed. I have again been through the various captures kindly 
given me by Capt. P. J. Barraud, and find I have two very fine pairs 
of this butterfly labelled “ Saracli, June 26th, 1917.’ Soon after the 
paper appeared I received a very interesting communication from 
Major P. P. Graves, then at Constantinople, commenting on some of 
the species enumerated, and criticising the records cited for the 
Central Balkan and Bulgaria. He first drew my attention to my 
identification of Chrysophanus thetis in the Natural History Museum 
Collection, and I do not think, in view of his remarks, that it would 
be safe to retain this beautiful Copper in the list on the strength of 
a single (and perhaps inaccurately identified) specimen. ‘It had 
