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H. Scott and determined by K. J. Morton ; one male and one female, 

 Henley-on-Thames, August 1st, 1910, collected by H. Scott, deter- 

 mined by K. J. Morton ; two males, Henley-on-Thames, June, 1911, 

 collected by H. Scott, determined by K. J. Morton ; one male. Wells 

 (Somerset), 1902, collected by C. G. Lamb, determined by H. Scott ; 

 one male, "Britain; old coll." (without exact data), determined by 

 H. Scott. — W. J. Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Notes on the Larv^ of Zyg^na exulans. — The recent hot spell 

 in Scotland proved very favourable for searching for larvae of Z. 

 exulans at Braemar, and I found them quite abundant on the flowers 

 of Empetrum nigrum during the last few days of April. On one tiny 

 plant I counted eight larvae. In captivity they seem ready to eat 

 almost any food (some of mine have a keen appetite for petals of 

 wallflower and others take apple-blossom), but they seemed confined 

 to crowberry as I found them. They are exceedingly active in the 

 sunshine, and have a most extraordinay capacity for escaping from 

 captivity. — C. Mellows ; Bishop's Stortford College. 



Callophrys eubi in April. — On April 21st I saw several C. rubi 

 flying round broom on the hills at Braemar about the 2000 ft. 

 contour. Perhaps they were in a sense " forced " by the extra- 

 ordinary " sun-heat," the maximum -reading for the day being 70° F. 

 — 0. Mellows ; Bishop's Stortford College. 



[Euchloe cardamines, among other species, has also been seen 

 on the wing at an unusually early date this year. Eecords of such 

 occurrences would be of interest. — Ed.] 



AgRIADES (POLYOMMATUS) CORYDON Var. HISPANA IN THE BaSSES- 



Alpes. — A few days ago I received from my friend Mr. C. E. Morris, 

 of Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, a water-colour sketch of a Lyc£enid, 

 with the request that I would identify the same for him. The 

 butterfly turns out to be Agriades corydon var. hispana, H.-S., and 

 according to the Eev. George Wheeler, who kindly named it for me, 

 though by no means rare elsewhere, has never before been reported 

 from the French Alps. This example, which must be regarded as 

 an aberration rather than one of a local race, was captured by Mr. 

 Morris near Barcelonnette, very little higher than the town, flying 

 over mud, on June 25th, 1913. — H. Kowland-Brown ; Harrow- 

 Weald, May 12th. 



CoLEOPTERA AND Hemiptera OF NoRFOLK. — Mr. J. Edwards, 

 Colesborne, Cheltenham, will be grateful to entomologists who have 

 collected Coleoptera or Hemiptera in Norfolk during the past five 

 years for particulars of their captures for present publication. 



HiPOCRiTA jacob^^ in EARLY May. — At Tuddonham, Suffolk, I 

 saw great numbers of Hipocrita jacobace, on the wing on May 3rd. 

 Is not this an unusually early date '? Perhaps I might add, as an 

 interesting parallel, a nest of the wheatear, with young, in the same 

 district. — W. E. Taylor ; Jesus College, Cambridge, May 5th, 1914. 



Melanic Female of Biston hirtaeia. — I have the good fortune 

 to report the emergence of a perfectly melanic female of B. hirtaria. 

 The insect was bred from a pupa dug up at Finchley. The specimen 



