310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



18. Second and third segments of intermediate tarsi sub- 



equal. (Pronotum in the macropterous form, apically 



spinose) 17 armata (Burm.) 



18«. Third segment distinctly longer than second . . 19 



19. More than three times as long as broad ; (pronotum in 



macropterous form not spinose) ground colour of legs 

 deep black ..... 18 nir/'icans (Burm.) 

 19a. Less than two and a half times as long as broad; ground 



colour of legs fulvous ... 19 aalimis (Champ.) 



20. Second and third segments of intermediate tarsi sub- 



equal 20 (ou/itstipes, Uhl. 



20a. Second segment much longer than third 21 temdpes, Champ. 



Species not included in the above table : — 



No. 22. obesa, Uhler. 



,, 23. (Biieipes, Haglund. 



,, 24. infenialis (Butler). 



,, 25. trailii (F. B. White). 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Second Brood of Epinephele ianira, — With reference to Mr. 

 Lucas's note on this subject (ante, p. 287), I am inclined to think that 

 a late emergence of Epinephele ianira is the rule rather than the 

 exception in the more sheltered parts of the south coast. Whether 

 we are right in attributing it to the occurrence of a second brood is 

 perhaps open to question, although I must say that such little evidence 

 as is obtainable is favourable to that presumption. One is far too apt 

 to omit from one's note-book all mention of a species generally regarded 

 as " so common," and as a consequence reliable records regarding its 

 times of appearance are few ; but such casual notes as I have been 

 able to turn up go to support my recollection that it has generally 

 occurred fairly plentifully in the sheltered hollows under Beachy Head, 

 where I have collected more or less regularly for many years well into 

 the end of August. My first visit to that locality during the past 

 summer was on August 19th ; E. ianira was then flying commonly, 

 and continued on the wing in varying abundance, according to the 

 suitability of the weather, until I left the neighbourhood on September 

 15th ; and a pair that I captured on the 8th of that month are in per- 

 fectly fresh condition — a fact, the full significance of which will be 

 appreciated when it is mentioned that a strong gale swept the coast 

 on the 3rd and 4th. — Eobt. Adkin ; Lewisham, October, 1901. 



Pterostoma palpina Double-brooded. — I do not think the appear- 

 ance of a second brood of P. palpina, with full-sized imagines, can be 

 so unusvial, in the South of England, as Mr. A. J. Lawrance seems to 

 think {vide ante, p. 288). Of the seventeen male specimens before me, 

 collected from various sources, by far the largest one of all was taken 



