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curious habit of climbing to the top of the shoots of Galiwm verum 
there, and swaying about as if on purpose to attract attention.” 
In the Hnt. for 1884, p. 61, W. H. Campbell states, <‘ My brothers, 
in company with our friend Mr. J. N. Milne, took a number of larvee 
of this species on sandhills on the Antrim coast . . . . We have 
since succeeded in forcing two or three of the pups, and have thus 
made sure of the identity of the species.” 
In his Lep. Brit. Isles, vol. vii., C. G. Barrett gives as localities 
Ballycastle, Antrim, west coast of Connemara, Achil Island, and on the 
authority of Mr. G. H. Carpenter, near Roundstone, Galway. South, 
in his Moths of the Brit. Isles, gives a summary of the distribution of 
this species so far as the British Islands are concerned.—H.J.T.| 
GynanpRomorPH Ponyconia (GRrapra) c-aLBuM.—I am very pleased to 
record breeding, in September, 1915, a P. c-album with left side 9 and 
right side g. I believe that this is unique. Only by chance have I 
to-day noticed it, as it was set for me as an upperside. When filling a 
row in the cabinet drawer I noticed that one specimen looked lopsided, 
the right side being the larger, and upon turning the specimen I found 
it was a gynandromorph. As most collectors know, the male and 
female of this species have totally distinct undersides, the former sex 
having a quantity of blue scaling, and being far more mottled than the 
female.—L.. W. Newman, Bexley, Kent. January 28th, 1916. (Oscar 
Schultz some few years ago collected all the records of gynandro- 
morphs, and no specimen of this species had then been met with. See 
Ent. Rec., vol. xxvii., p. 58.—H.J.T.] 
Harty Spring Emercences.— Hibernia leucophaearia, January 9th, 
one; January 12th, three; January 16th, several; all in woods. 
Apocheima hispidaria, January 9th, first male, some every day since. 
Tephrosia crepuscularia, January 11th, one; three to eight daily since ; 
in breeding cages out of doors exposed to all weathers and a north 
aspect. Larve of Abravas yrossulariata, on hedge in the front garden, 
started feeding on January 7th, and have grown considerably since. 
Melitaea aurinia larve were out on the web sunning themselves on 
January 27th. Larve of Arctia caja were feeding out of doors on 
January 15th.—L. W. Newman. 
On January 19th I saw a male of Hibernia leucophaearia at rest on 
a wall, in the higher part of Hampstead near the Heath. There were 
oak-trees not far off.—A. Sicu. 
GJURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICKS. 
Ferdinand de Coburg, Tsar of Bulgaria, was a member of the Knto- 
mological Society of France. At the meeting of October 13th last the 
President referred to the entry of Bulgaria into the Great War in these 
words, “‘L’extension du conflit est, en effet, l’oeuvre de l’un de nos 
collégues, elle est son oeuvre personelle, menée avec une puissance de 
dissimulation, une fourberie que l’on ne saurait trop mettre en relief. 
Nul dotite ne peut persister sur le role de Ferdinand de Coburg, tsar 
des Bulgares; ce réle ressort avec évidence de documents actuellement 
publics. Nous ne pouvons conserver comme collégue un homme qui a 
si manifestement bafouré les régles les plus élémentaires de l’honneur. 
Parfaitement renseignés & son sujet et absolument stirs de ne point 
frapper 4 faux, nous vous proposons de la rayer des controles de la 
