180 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
H. Scott and determined by K. J. Morton; one male and one female, 
Henley-on-Thames, August 1st, 1910, collected by H. Scott, deter- 
mined by K. J. Morton; two males, Henley-on-Thames, June, 1911, 
collected by H. Scott, determined by K. J. Morton ; cne male, Wells 
(Somerset), 1902, collected by C. G. Lamb, determined by H. Scott; 
one male, ‘“ Britain; old coll.” (without exact data), determined by 
H. Scott.—W. J. Lucas; Kingston-on-Thames. 
Notes oN THE LARV# OF ZYGHNA EXULANS.—The recent hot spell 
in Scotland proved very favourable for searching for larve of Z. 
exulans at Braemar, and I found them quite abundant on the flowers 
of Empetrum nigrum during the last few days of April. On one tiny 
plant I counted eight larve. In captivity they seem ready to eat 
almost any food (some of mine have a keen appetite for petals of 
wallflower and others take apple-blossom), but they seemed confined 
to crowberry as I found them. They are exceedingly active in the 
sunshine, and have a most extraordinay capacity for escaping from 
captivity.—C. Metiows; Bishop’s Stortford College. 
CALLOPHRYS RUBI IN ApRit.—On April 21st I saw several C. rubt 
flying round broom on the hills at Braemar about the 2000 ft. 
contour. Perhaps they were in a sense ‘‘forced” by the extra- 
ordinary “ sun-heat,” the maximum reading for the day being 70° F. 
—C. Mrextiows; Bishop’s Stortford College. 
[Huchloé cardamines, among other species, has also been seen 
on the wing at an unusually early date this year. Records of such 
occurrences would be of interest.—Eb. | 
AGRIADES (POLYOMMATUS) CORYDON var. HISPANA IN THE BAssEs- 
Aupres.—A few days ago I received from my friend Mr. C. HE. Morris, 
of Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, a water-colour sketch of a Lycenid, 
with the request that I would identify the same for him. The 
butterfly turns out to be Agriades corydon var. hispana, H.-§., and 
according to the Rev. George Wheeler, who kindly named it for me, 
though by no means rare elsewhere, has never before been reported 
from the French Alps. This example, which must be regarded as 
an aberration rather than one of a local race, was captured by Mr. 
Morris near Barcelonnette, very little higher than the town, flying 
over mud, on June 25th, 1913.—H. Rownanp-Brown; Harrow- 
Weald, May 12th. 
CoLEOPTERA AND Hemiptera oF Norrorx.—Mr. J. Edwards, 
Colesborne, Cheltenham, will be grateful to entomologists who have 
collected Coleoptera or Hemiptera in Norfolk during the past five 
years for particulars of their captures for present publication. 
HIpocrRiTa JACOBM@a# IN EARLY May.—At Tuddenham, Suffolk, I 
saw great numbers of Hipocrita jacobee on the wing on May 3rd. 
Is not this an unusually early date? Perhaps I might add, as an 
interesting parallel, a nest of the wheatear, with young, in the same 
district.—W. R. Taytor; Jesus College, Cambridge, May dth, 1914. 
Meanic FrMALe or Biston HirTARIA.—I have the good fortune 
to report the emergence of a perfectly melanic female of B. hirtaria. 
The insect was bred from a pupa dug up at Finchley. The specimen 
