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As a supplement to the above note, I may mention the fact 
that H. atriplicis was formerly quite a common moth round 
Wicken: one good spot was a plantation close to the village 
itself. Mr. Bond told me that on one occasion he had been 
on the Fen all the evening, returning to the well-known 
‘Five Miles’ Inn about midnight, very tired; it being a very 
warm night he opened the windows, placed a light near them 
and went off to sleep; awaking when it was broad daylight he 
found Noctuze sticking ‘‘all about the walls and ceiling, most of 
them atriplicis.” From a female taken at sugar June 11th, 1877, 
I obtained three eggs and succeeded in rearing one imago which 
emerged on June 15th, the following year; I fed the larva on 
knotgrass. It was in this latter year that I last saw the long 
extinct Lelia cenosa. On August 6th I took a male and Albert 
Houghton another, flying, or rather ‘ fluttering,” with their 
characteristically soft flight up and down the glass sides of the 
lamp. Messrs. Porritt and Daltry took the very last (recorded) 
specimens, I believe, in the following year (Entom. xi. 229). 
Wanstead: November 10th, 1914. 
AN EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF RUSSIAN 
BUTTERFLIES. 
By W. G. SuHeupon, F.E.S. 
(Concluded from p. 297.) 
Hipparchia semele.—¥irst seen on June 6th, and shortly after- 
wards became abundant everywhere. 
Pararge clinene.—This species, which is not known to extend 
further west than the Carpathians, and which is rare in the one or 
two localities in which it is found in those mountains, occurs in the 
utmost profusion at Sarepta; I saw, but did not capture, a single 
example on May 31st in a cross valley in the hills some four miles 
north-west of the town. At the same spot, when next I visited it on 
June dth, P. climene was flying in profusion; on this day only males 
were seen. The next day they were almost equally abundant in the 
““Tschapurnik Wald,’ and we afterwards found them in every spot 
in which there was any quantity of wood. The first females were 
seen on June llth. This butterfly frequents the outskirts of woods ; 
the male has a very epinephele-like flight, and on the wing closely 
resembles H. jurtena. It is continuously hovering over and searching 
amongst bushes for the females. These latter are not easy to find or 
secure; they seem, one presumes, after pairing to hide away from the 
males, and are to be kicked up out of small clumps of bushes some 
distance away from the larger woods that the males frequent. I did 
not see a single female flying naturally ; probably they would fly late 
in the day, when I was never on the ground. When disturbed they 
would, if not netted, quickly settle again in the thickest part of a 
