294 THE entomologist's record. 



sort. — Percy C. Keid, Feering Bury, Kelvedon. July QOth, 1900. 

 [The Ichneumonid you send is undoubtedly the species referred to 

 Glypta lugahrina, of Hohngren (Mon. Pirn., p. 41), by Bridgman in 

 Tr. Nov. Nat. Soc, v., 71, since it is identical with specimens so 

 named by him in my collection. He says {I.e. 68) that the central 

 abdominal segments are less transverse and the mesopleura and 

 metathorax are much more finely and sparingly punctate than in G. 

 memurator, Gr., with which Holmgren synonymises it. It is, how- 

 ever, probable that Bridgman later considered them identical, since he 

 records only G. mensurator, Gr., from Norfolk, in 1893. Mr. Bignell 

 has not met with it in South Devon, though I should suspect it to be 

 widely distributed and not uncommon throughout the country. The 

 Glrjptae are, I believe, invariably parasitic upon micro-lepidoptera — 

 generally upon Tortrices. G. lufiubrina has been bred by Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt from Eupoecilia hyhridellana, and on the 13th of last July 

 Miss Alderson kindly sent me from Worksop a, 3" G. ceratites, Gr., 

 which had emerged during the morning of the 11th, ex. Tortrix 

 xylosteana, fed upon yew. G. lugubrina {lityiiorina, sic) is figured in 

 Knowledge, v., 245. The specimen you send belongs to Holmgren's 

 var. l=:"Coxis rufescentibus fusco-maculatis, segmentis mediis 

 abdominis lateribus rufis." I never heard of an Ichneumonid 

 ovipositing in vegetable matter, and suspect the presence of an animal 

 host despite the observations of Mr. Eeid, with whom I have corres- 

 ponded upon the subjec1». — Claude Morley.] 



Change of colour in pupa of Apatura iris just before emer- 

 gence. — When in the New Forest at the end of May last I became the 

 fortunate possessor of two larvae of Apatura irifi, which were found by 

 my brother feeding on Salix caprea. They fed up well on Salix cinerea 

 which I had growing in my garden, and became pup^e, the first on 

 June 15th and the second on June 17th. The imagines, both c^s, 

 emerged, the first on July 8th and the second on July 10th. Twenty- 

 four hours prior to the perfect insect emerging the pupa changed in 

 colour from a whitish-green to a most beautiful bluish-green. I 

 cannot find any reference to this change in colour in any of the notes 

 I have read on the pupa of A. iris, but presume it is usual. — A. 

 KussELL, F.E.S., Southend, near Catford, S.E. August 28tJi, 1900. 



Habits of Colias hyale. — While on my holidays at Folkestone, 

 August llth-27th, I was very pleased to see Colias hyale turn up after 

 a few years' absence. During my stay I took 41 specimens and saw 

 over a hundred. I found their flight commenced about 9.30 a.m., and 

 from then until about 1 p.m. I never observed them to settle at all. They 

 flcAV very swiftly up and down the face of the cliffs, making it difficult 

 to catch them. From 1 p.m. till about 3.30 p.m. their flight was 

 much less strong, and they settled at intervals, and it was, therefore, 

 much more easy to secure them, whilst after 3.30 p.m. I did not see 

 any on the wing. I did not observe any to pair, although they would 

 occasionally fight with the " common Avhites." One thing in particular 

 I noticed with regard to their distribution, and that is, they seemed to 

 occur more freely in one dip of the cliff's called " the horseshoe " (a 

 nice sheltered cliff" in the shape of a horseshoe) than elsewhere. 

 Whilst the sun was gradually rising to its zenith 0. hyale flew on the 

 west side of the hollow directly opposite the sun ; at noon they 

 preferred the nortti side, whilst in the afternoon they shifted to the 



