NOTES ON COLLECTING. 



349 



and another on September 17th. Plnsia gamma has, I think, been 

 the commonest moth at Sydenham this year ; I saw it in dozens 

 during July, August, and September, more sparingly during October, 

 and yesterday (November 21st) I saw one resting on a fence in Norwood. 

 I have found larv^ and pup^e on scarlet- runner beans, mignonette, 

 sunflower, and Virginia-creeper. — Ibid. 



PoLYOMMATus BELLARGus IN BucKS. — 111 a note Supplementary to 

 my paper on collecting in the Chilterns (Ent. Eec, vol. xi., p. 192) I 

 stated that P. hellarym appeared to have died out in the locality named. 

 This year 1 visited the spot on June 9th, and found the butterfly in 

 question in some profusion, the females largely preponderating ; a 

 rather remarkable instance I think of recurrence, for, though I have 

 been over the ground often before, I have never seen this particular 

 "blue "there. I may mention that, in addition to Arr/ijnnis adippe 

 already noted, I took A. paphia and A. a(jlaia here, both somewhat 

 the worse for wear, on August 3rd, 1899, as well as PampJdla comma in 

 a like condition. These bring up the list of the Ehopalocera for this 

 particular part of the chalk downs to a total of thirty-one. — H. Eowland 

 Brown, M.A., F.E.S., Oxhey Grove, Harrow-Weald. Nov. 21th, 1900. 



An entomological ghost. — Group of Lancashire and Cheshire 

 ENTOMOLOGISTS. — Almost froiii the beginning of time scientists have 

 been credited with having dealings with the devil, and entomologists 

 have not been free from the implication, for it is hardly a 

 century ago since a certain Lady Glanville got into trouble 

 on account of her entomological propensities. Nevertheless it is 

 unusual to find entomologists returning to mother earth to visit 

 their old friends after their departure, yet this is what has recently 

 happened to one well known old Lancashire collector. Always curious 

 in his beliefs, such as the flatness of the world, &c., he would also 

 amuse his friends by promising to revisit them after he was gone, and 

 give them surprises when they were gloating over some new addition 

 to their collection, or feasting their eyes on some unique variety, and 

 now, to their horror, this promise has been fulfilled, for, although dead 

 some 18 months, we have distinct evidence of his being among a circle 

 of his friends last June. In the September number of the Entumolo- 

 (fut's Becord was published a reproduction of a group of entomologists 

 present at Mr. Capper's garden party, and the names were placed under 

 the various portraits. There is one face, however, that is nameless, 

 yet it is there and this is the likeness of the poor old man, now long 

 since dead, looking somewhat sadly over the shoulder of Mr. Webster 

 (.set? Plate IX.), evidently unhappy that he has not been recognised and 

 unable to make his presence known. Although somewhat shadowy, as 

 behoves a departed spirit, the features are all there, clear and distinct — 

 the eyes, nose, mouth, and well-known stubby beard, whilst, partly 

 shaded by the overhanging leaves, his grey hair just peeps out. I leave 

 those who knew old Gregson to decide whether the photographer has 

 done him justice in his spirit form, merely adding that there was no 

 one else visible to the naked eye present, that the negative is absolutely 

 iintouched, and that the representation is even more pronounced and 

 distinct in the silver print than in the plate that is re-produced there- 

 from. — F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool. October 

 11th, 1900. 



