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‘September. At the Stura on August 28th I netted a fine female of 
Papilio podalirius, and on September 13th I noticed several fresh males 
of small size of what I took to be a third brvod of Papilio machaon, 
flying in the same locality. 
_ I now conclude my Notes on Collecting in Northern Italy in 1918 
and 1919, the two most interesting years of my life from many points 
of view, but before doing so I wish to record the great kindness I 
have received from many members of the Entomological Section of 
the South Kensington Natural History Museum, as also of the 
Entomological Society of London for their invariable kindness in 
assisting me to name species of insects which I caught in N. Italy. 
Where one and all have been so uniformly kind it would be invidious 
to mention names, but I thank them all most eratefully.—Limur. 
E. B. Asusy, F.E.8., Hounslow, June 21st, 1920. 
AporIA CRATAEGI, Dons 1T SOMETIMES MIGRATE TO Us ?—Some years 
ago a friend of mine, who is an entomologist, reported having seen 
three or four A. crataegi feeding on flowers of the fieid scabious in 
Cornwall near Mullion. I sent the note to one of the journals but it 
was not published. Last week I was dining with a friend who is 
thoroughly up.in butterflies. Both he and his wife told me they had 
watched three black veined whites on the coast at Lewis for quite a 
long time last summer. There was no mistake about it, neither was 
there any mistake about the first report. Is this insect in the habit of 
coming over from France in certain years ?—-(Capt.) EK. B. Purnroy, 
F.EH.S., 87, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W. 
SOCIETIES. 
LANCASHIRE AND CursHirE H|\nromoLoaicaL Society. 
October 18th, 1920.—This being the opening meeting of the session 
‘was devoted to an exhibition of the work of the past season. 
Mr. 8. P. Doudney shewed :—Papilio machaon, Nonagria typhae 
(arundinis ,, Arsilonche albovenosa, Senta maritima, Acontia luctuosa and 
Bankia argentula from Wicken. Semiothisa (Macaria) notata, Hupi- 
thecia plumbeolata, Lobophora halterata and Hulype (Melanippe) hastata 
from Burnt Wood. Argynnis cydippe from Arnside, and from Holker, 
Plebius aeyon, Coenonympha tiphon and Carsia paludata. 
Mr. W. A. Tyerman brought Lepidoptera from Tan-y-Bwlch, N. 
Wales, including :—Brenthis -selene, Adscita (Ino) statices, Perizoma 
(Hmmelesia) adaequata and Ptychopoda (Acidalia) subsericeata, and from 
Llangollen, a fine dark series of Tephrosia biundularia var. delamerensis, 
Mr. R. Tait had spent his holiday at Wicken and exhibited from 
that locality nice series of the following :—Leucania pudorina and L. 
straminea, Agrotis obscura, Calymnia affinis, Bombycia (Epunda) vimin- 
alis, Aplecta advena, Lithosia griseola, Ania (Acidalia) emarginata, also 
specimens of Polyploca Cymatophora octogesimaand Arsilonche albovenosa. 
The Rev. F. M. B. Carr had a specimen of Hesperia malvae from 
Delamere, this being a new record for Lancashire and Cheshire, also a 
specimen of Argynnis cydippe, a species which had not been recorded 
for Cheshire for many years although common in N..Lancs. Other 
interesting species in Mr. Carr’s exhibit were :—Mellinia (Xanthia) 
gilvago, Chester; some very dark Kpirrita (Oporabia)  dilutata, 
