THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 208 
Entomological Notes, Captures, §c. 
A New(?) Food-plant for Melitea Artemis.—I have tried 
for the last three seasons to breed M. Artemis, on what I have 
always understood to be their usual food-plants, namely, 
Plantago lanceolata and Scabiosa succisa, but have never 
been able to succeed in getting a single larva to feed on these 
plants. Having obtained a few dozen larve in the spring of 
this year, I resolved ‘to try a new food-plant: I supplied the 
larve with honeysuckle, on which, to my surprise, they fed 
up rapidly, and in due course attained the pupa state. From 
these pupz I have bred a series of very dark imagos, varying 
both in size and colouring, not only from those I have taken 
in Sussex and Kent, but also from any that I have received 
or seen, either from the western and northern counties of 
England, or from Ireland or Scotland.—H. Goss; Brighton, 
August 20, 1874. 
Apatura [ris in Monmouthshire.—Last week a friend of 
mine brought me two specimens of Apatura Iris, both males, 
which were taken in this neighbourhood: one was captured 
in the kitchen, and the other outside, but close to a house in 
the country. This insect was caught and seen very frequently 
near here some five or six years ago. The county is omitted 
from the list in your work on ‘ British Butterflies. —H. Sta/- 
ford Gustard; Usk, Monmouthshire, August 1, 1874. 
_ Melanagria Galathea in Lincolnshire.—In your ‘ History 
of British Butterflies,’ p. 79, you remark that hitherto you 
have no record of the occurrence of the marbled white, 
Melanagria Galathea, in this county. The following note 
may, therefore, be of interest:—On the 18th of July, when 
driving across the wolds between Rigby and Caistor, and 
near the highest part of the wold, I noticed numerous 
examples of M. Galathea flitting in rather a lazy, undecided 
manner along the hedge-banks bordering the road. Returning 
‘some hours later by a parallel road to this, about one mile to 
the eastward, and on the summit of the wold, I again came 
across numbers of this butterfly, both along the road-side and 
in old disused chalk-pits contiguous. They seem very partial 
to settling on blossoms of the thistle and knobweed (Centaurea 
nigra). Altogether, on both roads, I must have seen several 
scores. I only took one example, as I was not aware, at the 
