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Suffolk, on August 17th, and the other at Towyn, in Merioneth- 

 shire, also in August, the latter hy Kev. E. J. Nurse (one of two 

 captured). In connection with the Welsh specimens it is worthy 

 of note that on June 2nd a swarm of dragonflies was seen flying 

 east near Aberdovey. The flight was noticed by several people at 

 Towyn and Aberdovey, and it was so large as to be mentioned in 

 one of the local papers. There is nothing, however, to show 

 that the two Welsh specimens of S . fonscolombii belonged to this 

 swarm. If those entomologists who took red-bodied Sympetra 

 in Britain during last summer were to critically examine their 

 captures, it is quite likely that other examples of S. fonscolombii 

 might be discovered. It should also be mentioned that Mr. 

 Watts took another dragonfly, which is usually considered a 

 migrant (5" fiaveolum, male), at Wisley Pond, Surrey, on August 

 18th ; and that Mr. H. Campion took two more males at the 

 same place a few days later. 



Previous records of S. fonscolombii captured in Britain are : 

 (1) a female in Stephen's collection supposed to have been taken 

 near London; (2) a male captured in 1881 at Deal, now, I 

 believe, in the Dover Museum; (3) seventeen males taken by 

 Mr. C. A. Briggs at Ockham Common, Surrey, in June, 1892 ; 



(4) a female taken in Cornwall by Mr. Boyd in June, 1903 ; 



(5) two males taken June 24th, 1908, by Mr. E. K. Speyer near 

 Shenley, Herts ; (6) a female taken by Mr. Speyer at Aldenham 

 Keservoir on July 29th, 1908. A male from the Devignes' collec- 

 tion, now in the McLachlan collection, has no indication of the 

 locality whence it came, and therefore cannot with certainty be 

 set down as British. 



(To be concluded.) 



EREBIA MANTO AND ITS VAEIETIES ABOVE 

 CHAMPERY. 



By the Rev. F. E. Lowe, M.A., F.E.S. 



Drawn by reports which I had heard of Champ6ry, above 

 Monthey, as a locality for many of the Erebias, I spent a few 

 days there last year. We put up at the Hotel Dent du Midi on 

 July 26th, and remained until August 1st. This was of course 

 late in the season and naturally butterflies were on the wane. 

 The slopes of the Dent du Midi and of the Dent Blanche, though 

 so near to the eye, are rather fatiguing to reach. As the river 

 runs between, it is necessary to descend from Champery to the 

 bridge before beginning to make the ascent. I paid two 

 visits to the little shanty of Anth^moz, whence I worked along 

 the rough ground diagonally and upwards for about another 

 two hundred feet. Here I was among the Erebias that I had 



