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stoppages were made before sleep overtook us. At one place I remember 

 the country people held their little children up to the carriage windows 

 to be kissed. Morning broke and we were well on our way towards 

 Paris. About midday the train stopped for more than an hour at the 

 large station of a town of which I have forgotten the name. At first 

 we were asked not to leave the carriages as a train of "blesses " was 

 expected. It came and pulled up beside our own. Straight from the 

 battlefield around Luneville it bore heaps of wounded lying on straw on 

 the floors of luggage vans in the hot sun. Not much " glory " in this 

 aspect of war ! But this is not entomology. What occurred on the . 

 homeward journey would fill several numbers of our magazine. Train 

 after train similarly filled passed, long stops at stations giveopportunities 

 for food raids even into the streets and shops, " Fontainebleau en 

 Avon " on a station name-board brings back thoughts of collecting, 

 arrival in Paris brings another scene of enthusiastic welcome and 

 change of train, a swift journey to the coast within a score of miles of 

 the German advance, the night spent on the deck of the channel 

 steamer 1100 on board plus multitudes of super-aggressive mosquitos, 

 the morning crossing in the mist with thoughts of mine and submarine, 

 the feeling at the sight of the " white cliffs " of Britain, the rush for 

 the train on landing, the welcome home, all crowd into our minds as 

 the unforeseen ending of our last " holiday abroad." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Paired Dryas paphia in flight. — During the first three days of 

 this month I came across the following cases of D. paphia flying paired, 

 at Lyndhurst : July 1st, 1 pair g carrying ? ; July 2nd, 3 pairs 3 

 carrying 2 and 1 pair ? carrying J ; July 3rd, 2 pairs 3 carrying 

 2 and 1 pair J carrying $ . This experience upsets all one's 

 theories as to the invariability of habit in any given species. It is 

 quite impossible for me to have been mistaken, as in both cases where- 

 the 2 carried the 5" I followed them up, saw them settle two or three 

 times on brambles, close enough to be able to start them flj'ing again 

 with my hand, and in both instances the ? carried the $ every time. 

 Nor was either a case of a worn and feeble 3 , both pairs consisted of 

 insects in prime condition ; on the other hand in one of the cases 

 where the 3 (as is usual) carried the 2 , the former had lost a con- 

 siderable part of the left forewing, which did not, however, seem to 

 affect its flight. In every case I saw, the carrying partner, of which- 

 ever sex, sat at rest with the wings expanded. I saw one pair only of 

 Livienitis aibi/lla in flight, and as it was impossible to see which carried 

 the other, I caught them with the view to seeing them start in flight 

 from the net, but unfortunately they separated immediately on capture. 

 — George Wheeler, 37, Gloucester Place, W. 1. 



JI^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Field notes from Bath and the neighbourhood. — My entomo- 

 logical senses were first gladdened this j^ear (1917) on March 17th by 

 seeing a real live moth on the wing. It was a well-marked specimen 

 of L'hciuiatnpliila [Tortricodes) lujcmana, flying in a wood at Coukwell, 

 Wiltshire. It made a warm impression on me after the long dreary 



