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there out of their usual beat. He told me that he took Charaxes 

 jasius in the hills above Ajaccio very commonly in August and 

 September by means of jars of honey, which attract them. We 

 stayed a day at Ajaccio, but beyond an apparently fresh brood 

 of E. ida we found nothing of interest, and everything 

 was fearfully burnt up. And so ended a trip, which, if not 

 entomologically a very great success, at any rate gave us a 

 delightful holiday in a new and particularly attractive country. 

 Appended is a full list of the Rhopalocera which I identified 

 during our stay in Corsica : — 



Carcharodus alcecB, Hesperia serratulce, Chrysophanus j^hl^sas 

 var. eleiis, Polyommatus icarits, P. astrarche var. calida, P. baton, 

 Plebeiiis argyrognomon var. bellieri, P. argus {agon) var. Corsica, 

 Cyaniris argiolus ab. parvipuncta, Lampides boeticus, Tarucus teli- 

 canus, Papilio podalirius, P. macliaon, Pieris brassicce, P. rapce, 

 P. napi, Pontia daplidice, Leptosia sinapis, Colias edusa, C. hyale 

 (doubtful), Gonepteryx rhamni, Dryas paphia, and var. valezina 

 and var. immaculata, D. pandora and ab. paupercula, Issoria 

 lathonia, Argynnis elisa, Pyrameis cardui, P. atalanta, Vanessa io, 

 Aglais urtica var. ichnusa, Eugonia polychloros, Polygonia c-album, 

 Pararge megcsra var. tigelius, P. egeria, Satyriis clrce, Hipparchia 

 semele var. aristceus, S. neomiris, Epinephele jurtina var. hispulla, 

 E. tithonus, E. ida, Coenonympha corinna, C. pamphilus var. lyllus. 



Keswick Hall, Norwich. 



NOTES ON EUROPEAN HESPERIIDS. 



By H. Piowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



On pp. 141-142 of the May 'Entomologist,' Mr. W. G. 

 Sheldon publishes a list of the more difficult Black-and-White 

 Skippers of the genus Hesperia included in his collection. It 

 may be further helpful to collectors on the Continent if I 

 supplement this interesting catalogue with a list of the 

 Hesperiids of this group in my own collection, taken either 

 by myself or by my friends, and specifically identified either by 

 examination of the male appendages, or by myself, with the 

 assistance of those entomologists of whose work I have already 

 availed myself for previous notes published in this magazine 

 (Entom. xliii. 306-309 ; xlv. 5-7 and 77-78 ; xliv. 8-11, 25-26, 

 and 109-110). Mr. Sheldon does not adopt M. Oberthiir's nomen- 

 clature for cirsii, Rbr., viz. fritillum, Hb. Otherwise he is in 

 accord with this classification. But I only follow his arrangement 

 of the genus under review for convenience of reference. 



Hesperia alveus. — Unquestionably a mountain species, where it 

 occurs throughout the western palaearctic region, or, at all events, 

 never in my experience descending to the plain. Arolla, August 

 (middle), 1896; Saas Fee, x\ugust (middle), 1897; Zinal, August, 



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