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Hale End. The insect was flitting round a sugared post, though I 

 cannot say whether it was attracted by the sugar or not ; it is in good 

 condition. I had never seen the species before, but it has been iden- 

 tified by my friend Mr. Prout. — R. W. Robbins. 



Rhizotrogus solstitialis. — In reference to Mr. P. J. Barraud's 

 note (ante, p. 256) I may mention that during July this species was 

 extremely abundant at Netley and Woolston, near Southampton. One 

 could easily have taken hundreds almost any evening. A single 

 specimen, taken in Plymouth, was given me, and a few were sent from 

 Exmouth, together with a female Dorcus paraUelopipedus. I may also 

 note that on June 9th I captured three specimens of Packyta octomacu- 

 lata, near Plymouth. — A. Vincent Mitchell; 81, Salisbury Road, 

 Plymouth, September, 1901. 



Cekambyx /Edilis in South Yorkshire. — It has been my good luck 

 to have procured two of this, I believe, rather rare beetle, taken at the 

 foot of a chimney, also near to a wood in the Rotheram district; three 

 others were also put aside for me, but by some unexplained means they 

 disappeared, with the boxes that contained them, probably the joke of 

 a fellow-workman. Donovan, in his book of the ' Natural History of 

 British Insects,' vol. ii., speaks of this species as scarce all over 

 Europe, and extremely rare in England. I should be glad to know if 

 it still remains rare in this country. My specimens were taken the 

 second week in August. — W. Brooks ; Grange Hall, Rotherham. 



Anesychia (Psecadia) bipunctella.— I beg to record the appearance 

 of A. (P.) bipunctella in my breeding-cage, on June 20tli, 1901. Un- 

 fortunately I am not sure where I took the larva, as the insect is one 

 of a number of micros I have reared, but believe it came in with 

 some of my food-plants, which, however, did not include viper's 

 bugloss. — J. T. Fountain; 149, Vaughton Street, Birmingham, July 

 24th, 1901. 



[In answer to enquiries, Mr. Fountain informs us that the insect 

 referred to in his note has been identified from the figure of P. bi- 

 •punctella on plate 62 in Kirby's 'European Moths and Butterflies.' He 

 also adds, " I have had no food-plants out of England." — Ed.] . 



Notes on Butterflies from the Maritime Alps. — "Whilst on my 

 hohdays in July in the Maritime Alps, I had the good fortune to find 

 LcBosopis roboris unusually abundant at St. Martin Vesubie. I have 

 on former occasions observed single specimens of this rare Lycenid in 

 that locality, and also at Digne, but do not think that it often occurs 

 in France in such numbers as it did this year at St. Martin. I found 

 a particular walnut sapling remarkably attractive ; one of the branches 

 had been broken accidentally by myself at my first visit to it during 

 the last week of June, and probably the strongly-scented sap was the 

 cause of attraction. Round this bush I took nearly forty specimens, 

 and could have taken many more. I saw and took it in other parts of 

 the environs of the town, and once noticed it actually in the town 

 itself. The female was very scarce until the third week of July, after 

 which it became the commoner sex. This species loves the hottest 

 sunshine, and disappears instantly if the slightest cloud obscures the 

 sun, though it can be beaten occasionally out of bushes and herbage 



