294 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
PARARGE MEG#RA TREBLE-BROODED.—With reference to the 
Rev. Gilbert H. Raynor’s note (‘ Entom.,’ 1921, pp. 269-270) on the 
appearance of a third brood of this species at Hazeleigh, in this 
county, and his remarks that he thinks a third emergence to be 
‘“‘quite unparalleled,’ I can assure him that it is not so, for I have 
frequently observed third broods both here and in North Devon, and 
believe, when the seasons are favourable, they may be always 
expected. This year, in this neighbourhood, the first examples of 
the first brood were noticed on April 27th, and by May 10th they 
were out in abundance. The second brood were well out by July 
22nd, when a large number of bright examples were seen. On July 
30th, and again on August 5th, females were observed egg-laying. 
They were becoming much worn by August 22nd, and worn 
specimens were to be seen every time I looked for them up to 
September 16th. On September 18th a very fresh g was noticed, 
and this, I believe, was the first of the third brood. By September 
26th fresh examples were plentiful, and I saw them every day I went 
out. On October 13th I counted three dozen flying about the 
railway bank between Dovercourt and Parkeston. The last examples, 
two in number, were seen October 17th. At Instow, North Devon, 
I have already recorded (‘Entom.,’ vol. xlix, p. 287) that I saw one as 
late as November 13th, 1916. In 1917 I saw a number of fresh 
specimens on September 6th. In 1918, on August 11th, a large 
number were about, and on the morning of that day I must have 
seen at least a hundred flying by the roadside between Instow and 
Worlington House, a distance of about a mile. These might have 
been an early third, or a late second brood. Between October 13th 
and 23rd many more were seen, and these, of course, were a third 
brood. LP. egeria is also treble-brooded in favourable seasons, and I 
frequently saw them at Instow at the end of September and early in 
October from 1916 to 1918. It does not occur here. C. pamphilus 
ig another species that is constantly treble-brooded—or, perhaps, it 
would be better to call it continuously-brooded, for there seems to be 
a succession of broods. LH. yjurtina I have often seen very late in the 
season when out shooting. In 1917 I saw one as late as September 
24th, so it looks as if this species was occasionally double-brooded.— 
GERVASE F’. MatHew, Paymaster-in-Chief R.N., F.L.S.; Dovercourt, 
November 15th, 1921. 
SATYRUS MEGHRA TREBLE-BROODED.—Regarding the Rey. Gilbert 
Raynor’s note on the third brood of this species, he is in error by 
supposing those he observed to be quite unparalleled. It is usual 
for a third brood of S. meg@ra to occur in the year during fine warm 
summers, the first appearing in April and May, the second in June 
and July, the third. in September and October. In the unusually 
fine and hot summer of 1893 a third emergence occurred towards 
the end of September and October. In 1911, another fine, warm 
summer, I met with a large number of freshly emerged specimens on 
the wing in Norfolk on October 18th. During September and 
October of this year examples of the third brood of this species were 
common in most districts I visited in S.E. Essex. In 1893 I bred 
a third brood of this butterfly from ova deposited on August 2nd; the 
