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annulatm, rather immature. Of these <J. nmiJUmus is the only species 

 not found in Britain. Perhaps the most interesting of all is Sympyma 

 fusca, an agrionid about as large as our Ayrion piiella, but brown in 

 colour. It is the only dragonfly that is known to hybernate in the 

 imaginal condition, though perhaps Sympetmm scoticum may sometimes 

 do so on the Continent; it does not, however, do so here. — W. J. 

 Lucas; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Alleged Occurrence of Papilio podalirius at Marlborough. — 

 Preferring to Mr. Brande's note on this on p. 264, I may say that I was 

 at Marlborough College as a boy from 1868 to 1873, and had charge 

 of the Entomological Section of the Natural History Society during 

 most of that time ; whose records I still supervise. No report of any 

 such capture was made to me or the officials of the Society at the time, 

 nor does any record of it appear in our Reports, published annually, and 

 giving all captures of Lepidoptera every year in an unbroken succession 

 from 1865. So striking a capture could not have been unnoticed, and 

 would not have been concealed. I have no doubt the supposed record 

 is erroneous, and due to some confusion of memory in the mind of the 

 owner, after the lapse of years. — E. Meyrick ; Thornhanger, Marl- 

 borough, Oct. 5th, 1904. 



Erebia glacialis var. nicholli, Obth., and Lampides tilicanus, 

 Lang.— In my note on "Butterfly Hunting in the South Tyrol" 

 (p. 224), I remarked that tlie form of Erebui glacialis taken by me on 

 the Groste Pass, above Campighi, merited a distinctive varietal name. 

 Mr. Hamilton Druce has since drawn my attention to a note published 

 by Mr. Charles Oberthur in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' 

 for 1896, p. 3, where the butterfly — then thought to be a form of 

 E. melas — was given by him the name of var. nicholli. Notwith- 

 standing the later identification with E. glacialis, the validity of this 

 name is of course unaffected, and our captures should therefore have 

 been designated accordingly. I may add that Mr. Lemann tells me 

 he took both Lampides tilicanus and Lycmia or ion in some numbers 

 at Botzen during the last days of July. I have myself observed tili- 

 canus at St. Martin-Vesubie, in the Alpes-Maritimes, at about 3200 ft.; 

 and Mr. F. B. Norris records a single specimen at 6000 ft., above 

 Boscolungo, in the Apennines (Entom. xxiv. 228); so that, while not 

 precisely an alpine species, it must be regarded as occurring on the 

 high mountain regions as well as on the lower lands, therein resembling 

 its congener, L. bccticits, which in some localities — for example, the 

 Pyrenees — ranges from sea-level up to 8000 ft., as noted by Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes on the Pic du Midi (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 391), though I am 

 unable to trace a similar distribution in the Swiss alpine regions. — 

 H. Rowland-Brown ; Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald, Oct. 13th, 1904. 



British Specimens of Hydrot^a wanted. — I propose to publish as 

 soon as possible an account of the British species of HydroUea (Diptera 

 — Fam. Anthomyiidae), and would be grateful if readers of this maga- 

 zine would send me for examination any specimens belonging to this 

 genus which are in their possession. All help in this way will be fully 

 acknowledged, and the material returned, labelled ivith specific names, 

 as soon as practicable. — Percy H. Grimshaw ; Royal Scottish Museum, 

 Edinburgh. 



