90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



confirmation of the *' very prolonged period of emergence" to which 

 Mr. Prideaux refers. I was living at the time in Dresden, and on my 

 retm^n I took the two specimens out to Blasewitz for Dr. Staudinger's 

 inspection. He pronounced them to be undoubted Lycidas, and 

 said that the locality was to him a new one. I had taken a rather 

 worn specimen of the male in the valley between Stalden and Brigue 

 at the end of July the year before. — E. S. Standen, F.E.S.; Lindfield, 

 Sussex, March 7th, 1908. 



Bird Chased by a Butterfly. — One day while I was collecting 

 in the Bered Woods at Durban I was much interested to see a speci- 

 men of Papilio lyceus in liot pursuit of a bird ; he was chasing it in 

 exactly the same manner that many of these big Papilios will 

 sometimes chase away other butterflies from their own immediate 

 neighbourhood, and the bird, which was about the size of a large 

 blackbird, was flying rapidly before his pursuer, showing every 

 symptom of fear and trepidation, while the butterfly continued to 

 pursue the intruder for some distance, before returning to his former 

 perch. Most collectors will doubtless have occasionally seen a bird 

 pursuing a butterfly (though generally without effecting its capture), 

 but I should be interested to know if anyone has ever before observed 

 the relative positions reversed. -^(Miss) M. E. Fountaine, F.E.S. ; 

 Durban, Natal, December, 1907. 



Sympetrum vulgatum. — Referring to the inquiry (antea, p. 39) 

 relating to Sympetrum vulgatum : whilst I cannot, of course, give any 

 information as to the locality from which Mr. Harrison obtained the 

 specimen referred to, I can report that he was a most reliable man, 

 and accomplished some good natural history work in this district. 

 In 1835 he took an active part in connection with the British Asso- 

 ciation Meeting at Hull, and we have many evidences in this museum 

 of his reliability. — T. Sheppaed; the Municipal Museum, Hull, 

 March 24th, 1908. 



Entomological Society op London. — The First Commissioner 

 of H. M. "Works having kindly placed the Theatre, Great Hall, and 

 other rooms of the Civil Service Commission at Burlington Gardens 

 at the disposal of the Society, the Conversazione will be held there 

 on the evening of Friday, May 15th, and not as previously announced 

 to Fellows. Full particulars will be published during the current 

 month, and intending exhibitors are requested to cominunicate with 

 the Honorary Secretary, H. Eowland-Brown, 11, Chandos Street, 

 Cavendish Square, W. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPOETS. 



EUPITHECIA INNOTATA NOT IN WORCESTERSHIRE. — My note 



(Entom. xl. p. 40) on the above insect having been taken by me here 

 having been questioned by Mr. Eustace Bankes, I submitted the 

 insect to his kind inspection. He tells me that although my speci- 

 men might be referred equally well either to innotata or fraxinata 

 (assuming that these are distinct species, which is open to argument). 



