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present winter the sympathetic aid of readers of this Journal, in 
securing and forwarding for identification collections of hybernating 
flies. Such flies may be looked for in attics and other unoccupied 
rooms, in chinks and crannies in living rooms, such as the space 
between a shutter or a loose piece of wall-paper and the wall, and in 
stables, barns and other outbuildings close to houses. Every con- 
signment of flies so collected, if forwarded (with label stating place 
and date of capture) either to Dr. S. Monckton Copeman, F.R.S., 
Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W., or to the writer, will be 
gratefully and promptly acknowledged and investigated. The flies 
should be placed, just as they are, in a small tin box or wide-mouthed 
bottle, well protected by soft wrapping and despatched by parcel 
post. Such parcels, if sent to Dr. Copeman at the Local Government 
Board, and marked * O.H.M.S.,” need not be stamped.—Ernest H. 
AustEN ; British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, 
S.W., January 10th, 1914. 
Notes From SaLtcomBe, AuGcust, 1913.—Colias edusa was first 
seen on the Kingsbridge Road on August 10th after church, and was 
apparently a freshly emerged male. There was a large clover field a 
short distance away, but although the field was visited on all 
suitable occasions for several days, and at intervals until the end of 
the month, not a single other specimen was seen in that neighbour- 
hood. On August 15th a male appeared on the tennis courts and 
was promptly acquired with the help of a racquet. The same day my 
wife discovered the species flying quite freely in a steep stubby field 
on the Portlemouth side of the harbour. A few specimens were 
generally to be found there in sunshine for the next ten days, when 
they became scarcer. It was a great pleasure to find Vanessa io 
commoner than I have seen it for thirty years. It occurred almost 
everywhere, but swarmed in some of the ravines on the Bolt, where 
at least half a dozen on one occasion were feeding on an inaccessible 
clump of valerian, its chief attraction. No doubt these were the 
imagines from the larve noted as common at Salcombe by Mr. R. M. 
Prideaux on July 1st. V. zo was in the pink of condition, a large 
percentage being absolutely perfect and very fine. Pyrameis 
cardut were very common in the clover field and in good condition. 
P. atalanta appeared frequently towards the end of the month. On 
August 19th a number were flying on the sandhills at Hope, where 
they were greatly attracted by the Hryngiwm, then in full bloom. 
Argynnis paphia was about over, but a few were seen in the 
Courtenay Woods and on the Bolt. Satyrus semele was common on 
the barer part of Bolt Head, but was worn, and only four perfect 
specimens was taken. Pararge egeria was numerous in all suitable 
localities and in all conditions. Pararge megera and EH pinephele 
tithonus swarmed on the banks at the sides of the high roads, but 
both were dilapidated. Canonympha pamphilus and Chrysophanus 
phleas were present in some numbers in the edusa field and less 
commonly elsewhere. Lycena astrarche occurred in one corner of 
the same field, but was confined to a space of about fifteen yards 
square, and it was met with nowhere else. J. ecarus was the only 
blue seen, and not a single skipper or hairstreak was noted. 
