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Deilephila galii in Somerset. — I have to report the capture of 

 twenty-five larvae of D. galii, feeding on yellow Galium on the sand- 

 hills quite close to Burnham, Somerset. — H. Doidge ; The Bank, 

 High Street, Taunton, July 19th, 1912. 



LiMENITIS SIBYLLA AND APATURA IRIS IN SURREY. On July 9th 



four specimens of Limenitis sibylla were taken in a public wood near 

 here ; and on the same date a specimen of Apatura iris was captured 

 in a private wood. Another specimen of A. iris was found drying 

 its wing on the door of a private garden in this neighbourhood, on 

 July 10th.— J. J. JoiCEY ; The Hill, Witley. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN 1912. — Specimens were noted by members of 

 the S. Lond. Ent. and Nat. Hist. Soc. at Otford on July 27th last. 

 The butterfly has also been seen or captured at other places in Kent, 

 and also in Surrey. — Richard South. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN DORSETSHIRE. — It may be of interest to record 

 the capture of C. edusa var. helice at Purbeck, June 24:th. — Leonard 

 Tatchell ; Bournemouth. 



CoLiAs BDUSA IN GLAMORGANSHIRE. — I notice in last month's 

 ' Entomologist ' (p. 207) that Mr. Rowland-Brown records having 

 seen this butterfly in Bucks, on May 30th. I saw a male G. edusa on 

 June 22nd, about 4 p.m., on the roadside near my house at Llandaff. 

 Very few specimens were seen last autumn in this county. — E. U. 

 David ; Yscallog, Llandaff. 



Butterfly Collecting in Sicily and Calabria in 1911. — It 

 is pleasant to look forw^ard in the spring to rambles in "sunny" 

 Sicily and Calabria, and especially was this the case after the long 

 dreary winter in England of 1910-11, but occasionally the realization 

 does not come up to expectation. I left London in dull, cloudy 

 weather on April 25th, and on the evening of the 27th arrived at 

 Nervi, a lovely health resort a few miles south of Genoa, where I 

 stopped a night. The town is sheltered from northerly and easterly 

 breezes by hills, and the Pensions have some of the loveliest gardens 

 I have seen, and 1 found the scent of the orange blossom almost 

 overpowering. The sky was overcast, with occasional shght showers, 

 and during a long walk up a beautiful mountain gorge the only 

 butterfly that ventured out was ageria (two specimens). Next day 

 I reached the Junction Station of Roccasecca, between Rome and 

 Naples, at 10 a.m., and hoped for better success, but the clouds hid 

 the sun nearly all day, and only rapce, cardamines, ageria, and edusa 

 were seen or captured, and one larva of B. quercus picked up. An 

 amusing episode at the solitary restaurant (a very poor one) and 

 the discovery of a magnificent pass, where the road follows the 

 windings of the River Garigliana (or a tributary) through one of 

 the grandest chasms imaginable, redeemed the day from being 

 unprofitable — I much regretted the absence of sunshine. Next day 

 clouds covered the sky when I reached Gioja Tauro, in Calabria, 

 where I had planned another break in my journey, and instead 

 of stopping I went straight through to Messina. 



My first day in Messina (April 30th) proved a glorious day. My 

 son and I took a vehicle as far up the mountain as the road would 



