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served the J" of Dnjasi paphia carrying the $ when paired, never the 

 opposite." Again he says, " During my visit to the Vaudois, July 25th- 

 August 24th, this year, I again many times saw Dnjan paphia flying 

 whilst in copula. Tlae male invariably, in my experience, carried the 

 female, and I must have made the observation during the last month 

 at least a score of times, a half of these, perhaps, being a typical ^ 

 paphia paired with a $ var. valeaina. It is remarkable that, however 

 worn and battered, and apparently incapable the (^ may be physically 

 to accomplish a flight, the ? never attempts, in my experience, to fly, 

 either hanging motionlessor slightly separating its wings, as if to make 

 itself ride more lightly. The ^ Argyunix »?o/>i; also carries the ? , and 

 I have seen a J^ of this species, so worn and broken as to be incapable 

 of flying more than a yard or two at a. time, paired with a large, heavy, 

 newly emerged 2 , make strenuous efforts to escape capture, rising and 

 settling positively fixed. In some of the ' blues ' the <? again carries 

 the 5 , but I believe I have somewhere recorded that, among some of 

 the Melitaeas, e.g., M. didijma, the J always carries the <y . On the 

 other hand ^ Melanargia i/alathea always carries the ? , even when 

 the former is worn to rags." 



Tutt's observation on the " blues" agrees with mine; the Melitaeas 

 I have not been lucky enough to observe in copula, but his observation 

 is what I should expect, and also that on M. galathea, as I have often 

 observed $ Pieris rapae carrying the J . 



Tutt's note, however, was in reply to a note on the same page by Mr. 

 F. B. Newnham, who recorded having found -a. ^ A. adippe in cop. with a 

 ? B. paphia, and who expressed surprise that the S' ^- adippe ca.vned 

 the 5 D. paphia, and says, " This is quite contrary to my experience, 

 having invariably observed the 2 carrying the ^ when flying. Later 

 in the afternoon I disturbed two D. paphia in cop. and when on the wing 

 the 2 did all the flying." 



I am aware that it is dangerous to use the words " always " and 

 " never," when dealing with natural phenomena, but I have found the 

 carrying habits of butterflies when paired so constant, that I am 

 wondering if the habits of D. paphia, and possibly A. adippe and A. 

 acjlaia (as suggested hj 3^ A. niohe carrying 2 ) are different on the 

 Continent. It would be interesting if readers who have notes from 

 actual observation of butterflies flying when paired, would record them 

 in the Ent. Record. — C. W. Colthrup, 108, Woodwarde Road, East 

 Dulwich, S.E. [I have recorded in the case of aglaia and niobe that 

 the 2 s carried the <ys in the Engadine, antea p. 89. — H.J.T.] 



Further note on Agriades coridon, hispana and aragonensis. — 

 I ought perhaps to have added to my notes on Agriades coridon and 

 var. arragonensis,'''' that I met with hispana only in the Albarracin area, 

 Albarracin, Bronchales, Tragacete, whilst arragomnsis occurred also at 

 Avila and Navalperal in the Guadarramas, and at Soria, a good way to 

 the north, almost in the Moncayo area. I think I met with it at other 

 pomts, but the above are all that specimens still in my possession 

 enable me to be sure of. They are sufficient, however, to justify the 

 statement that, so far as my observation goes, artagonensis has a rather 

 wide distribution, hispana a comparatively very narrow one. I have 



* Ent. Rec, vol. xxviii., p. 237. 



