944 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
I caught it in a glass shade, and it was killed and set. I should be 
much interested to know if many of these butterflies have been seen 
this year in other parts of the country —Mary C. Bonn; Tyneham, 
Corfe Castle, Dorset. 
[Besides the specimen now recorded by Mrs. Bond, captured on 
August 23rd last, according to records available, it appears only 
three other captures have occurred of Antiopa during the past 44 
years in Dorset, viz., one at Branksome in 1877, one at Weymouth 
in 1884, and one at Swanage in 1918.—F. W. F.] 
PAPILIO BIANOR TAKEN AT Bricuton.—This butterfly was caught 
in a net on June 8th, 1918, by Mrs. Chart, flying over a bed of 
pansies. JI have seen the insect, it is a little rubbed, having been 
carried alive to a firm of naturalists (Messrs. Pratt & Sons) at 
Brighton, who killed it and set it up ina case. It is an inhabitant 
of China and Hong-Kong, and resembles ab. majalis, the rarer spring 
type, the blue lines on the lower wings extending to the base of the 
rounded tails as in ab. gaponica (Butl.) and maacki (Ménétr.). How 
it came to be flying at Withdean, Brighton, is a mystery.—F. G. §. 
BraMWELL; 1, Dyke Road Drive, Brighton. 
LAMPIDES B@TICUS AT DovEeR.—A friend of mine here showed 
me a specimen of Lampides beticus taken in his garden. It is a 
good female specimen. I send you his letter.—G. O. Storer; Hotel 
Burlington, Dover. 
Extract from Mr. F. P. Lane’s letter. 
“The ‘Tailed blue’ which I showed you on Saturday was caught 
by my son (Fredk. EH. Lane, aged 13) in my garden at the back of 
Montague Gardens, Castle Avenue, Dover, on August 2nd, 1921. 
I was in the garden when it was caught. It was first seen on a row 
of garden peas.” 
IssORIA LATHONIA NEAR DorcHESTER.—While working for 4. 
bellargus I netted a very fine specimen of J. lathonia; judging by its 
appearance it must have just emerged from the chrysalis. The only 
other species worth mention was a fine male Colzas edusa, the only 
one I have seen this season. Another remarkable capture was 
Polygonia c-album in my garden at Southbourne on July 24th.— 
A. Forp; 36, Irving Road, Bournemouth. 
CATOCALA FRAXINI IN ScoruANnD.—I found a good specimen of 
C. fraxini at rest on a refreshment tent at Bay of Uigg, Kin- 
cardineshire, on August 22nd. Another specimen was seen by a 
young collector early in September at Portlethen, about three miles 
from where I took my specimen.—L. G. Esson; 6, Esslemont 
Avenue, Aberdeen. 
. Notes oN THE REARING oF THE Larv& oF MELITHA CINXIA.— 
A propos Mr. Mayor’s article in this month’s ‘ Entomologist,’ I quote 
from my diary under date September 17th, 1872: ‘This morning I 
devoted to hunting for M. conxia larve. I commenced operations 
just outside the town of Ventnor to the westward, where I happened 
