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present winter the sympathetic aid of readers of this Journal, in 

 securing and forwarding for identification collections of hybernating 

 flies. Such flies may be looked for in attics and other unoccupied 

 rooms, in chinks and crannies in living rooms, such as the space 

 between a shutter or a loose piece of wall-paper and the wall, and in 

 stables, barns and other outbuildings close to houses. Every con- 

 signment of flies so collected, if forwarded (with label stating place 

 and date of capture) either to Dr. S. Monckton Copeman, F.E.S., 

 Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W., or to the writer, will be 

 gratefully and promptly acknowledged and investigated. The flies 

 should be placed, just as they are, in a small tin box or wide-mouthed 

 bottle, well protected by soft wrapping and despatched by parcel 

 post. Such parcels, if sent to Dr. Copeman at the Local Government 

 Board, and marked '• O.H.M.S.," need not be stamped. — Ernest E. 

 Austen ; British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Eoad, London, 

 S.W., January 10th, 1914. 



Notes from Salcombe, August, 1913. — Colias edusa was first 

 seen on the Kingsbridge Eoad on August 10th after church, and was 

 apparently a freshly emerged male. There was a large clover field a 

 short distance away, but although the field was visited on all 

 suitable occasions for several days, and at intervals until the end of 

 the month, not a single other specimen was seen in that neighbour- 

 hood. On August 15th a male appeared on the tennis courts and 

 was promptly acquired with the help of a racquet. The same day my 

 wife discovered the species flying quite freely in a steep stubby field 

 on the Portlemouth side of the harbour. A few specimens were 

 generally to be found there in sunshine for the next ten days, when 

 they became scarcer. It was a great pleasure to find Vaiiessa io 

 commoner than I have seen it for thirty years. It occurred almost 

 everywhere, but swarmed in some of the ravines on the Bolt, where 

 at least half a dozen on one occasion were feeding on an inaccessible 

 clump of valerian, its chief attraction. No doubt these were the 

 imagines from the larvae noted as common at Salcombe by Mr. E. M. 

 Prideaux on July 1st. 7. to was in the pink of condition, a large 

 percentage being absolutely perfect and very fine. Pyrameis 

 cardui were very common in the clover field and in good condition. 

 P. atalanta appeared frequently towards the end of the month. On 

 August 19th a number were flying on the sandhills at Hope, where 

 they were greatly attracted by the Eryngium, then in full bloom. 

 Argynnis jjaphia was about over, but a few were seen in the 

 Courtenay Woods and on the Bolt. Satyrus semele was common on 

 the barer part of Bolt Head, but was worn, and only four perfect 

 specimens was taken. Pararge egeria was numerous in all suitable 

 localities and iti all conditions. Pararge viegcera and Epinephele 

 titJionus swarmed on the banks at the sides of the high roads, but 

 both were dilapidated. Ccenonympha pamphilus and Chrysoplianus 

 phlceas were present in some numbers in the edusa field and less 

 commonly elsewhere. Lyccena astrarche occurred in one corner of 

 the same field, but was confined to a space of about fifteen yards 

 square, and it was met with nowhere else. L. icarus was the only 

 blue seen, and not a single skipper or hairstreak was noted. 



