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Belenois gidica, Godt., 1 pair; Belenois mesentina, Cram., 1 

 pair. In each of these eleven pairs the S was carrying the $. 



" Dr. Carpenter refers to a note of mine which appeared 

 in Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., March 17, 1915, pp. xlvii, xlviii. 

 I there recorded six observations on the nuptial flight of 

 Pierines, including our three common British species, and in 

 South Africa a Belenois and a Pinacopteryx. In every one of 

 these cases, as in Dr. Carpenter's, the male was supporting the 

 female. I have never seen a Colias under these circumstances, 

 but the combined testimony as to the genera named seems 

 to be pretty complete. It will be remembered that in an 

 earlier volume (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., Nov. 4, 1914, p. xcviii), 

 Mr. Wheeler had noted that, according to his experience, in 

 Lycaenids the male always carried the female, but that in 

 Nymphalines, Satyrines and the common Pierids the female 

 carried the male. With regard to Lycaenids and Satyrines 

 my own observations, as given in the place above cited, are 

 in full accord with Mr. Wheeler's, but it will be remarked 

 that in the case of the Pierines Dr. Carpenter's observations 

 and mine agree with one another, but not wath Mr. Wheeler's. 

 This, I think, gives ground for Dr. Carpenter's suggestion 

 about asking entomologists to make special observations on 

 this point, sending their notes and specimens to the Hope 

 Department. 



" It would seem that both among Pierines and Nymphalines 

 occasional exceptions may occur to what appears to be the 

 general rule, for while in the only instance that I have noted 

 of the latter subfamily, Argynnis cydippe {adippe), L., the male 

 was carrying the female, the detailed testimony of Mr. ^Vheeler 

 is entirely in the opposite direction. Dr. Carpenter also 

 seems to have observed one instance of the female Pina- 

 copteryx simana carrying the male — the only one where this 

 was the case out of many instances of the nuptial flight of 

 this species and other Pierines observed by him. 



[In the first three days of July this year, I observed at 

 Lyndhurst eight pairs of Dryas pajthia in flight. In six 

 instances the S carried the ?, in two the $ carried the o. 

 Details are given in the " Entomologists' Record," vol. xxix, 

 p. 166.— G. Wheeler.] 



