NOTES ON COfJ,K(!TING. 



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Hamearis lucina at Constantinople. — On April 20th I found H. 

 Incina occurring very locally in a locality in the Belgi'ad Forest 

 district near Constantinople, which I had visited later in the spring 

 before the war without taking this insect, which perhaps reaches its 

 8outh Eastern limit here. Of tkie four $ s and five $ s taken several 

 seem distmctly larger than the average of British specimens. This is 

 a new adilition to the Constantinople list. — P. P. Gkaves (Major), 

 G.H.Q., Constantinople. Maij 12th, 1919. 



Is Arotia caja habitually a day-flier ? — I ask because I have 

 never met with it in diurnal flight, and do not recollect ever seeing such 

 flight recorded, although of course A. viUira, Callimorpha dominida, 

 and other allied species are well-known day-fliers. I have been told 

 that it has been taken flying in sunshine, and its brilliant colouring 

 would suggest warning colouration as a day- flier. C. Nicholson,. 

 Chingford. March Mth. 



Hibernia defoliaria in January and February. — Has Mr. James 

 met with this species in Ongar Park Wood so late as these months ? 

 #It has been taken sometimes as late as these months in Epping 

 Forest. — Id. 



ToRTRix viridana AND OTHERS. — The oaks are again this year being 

 badly devastated by the "green Tortrix " and oti^er larvae in most of 

 our Surrey woods. A ramble under the trees at the west end of 

 Wimbledon Common, on May 24th, covered one with a crawling 

 mass. At Box Hill on May 31st the devastation was almost as bad. 

 In some places practically every .-leaf of the undergrowth was curled 

 by the pupating larvae which had come down from the oak branches 

 above.— H.J. T. 



Notes on Entomology in France and Italy in 1918. — Whilst 

 walking on Vimy Eidge in the middle of December, 1917, I found 

 four larvae of Phra(jm,ati)bia fiili(/inosa feeding in the inside of an old 

 German haversack. These I brought back with me to Boulogne, 

 where three of them soon pupated, and I obtained the first moth on 

 January 24th, 1918. 



March 9th. — To-day has been a beautiful, almost spring day, and 

 when looking for the early spring flowers in the Vallee de Denacre, a 

 few kilometres from the Porte Calais in the old town of Boulogne, I 

 saw a hibernated specimen of Eiu/ofiia polychloros flying and occasionally 

 settling on the trunks of trees. Its colour seemed perfect, but the 

 hindwings were a little ragged, too much so for the cabinet. 



March 13th. — To-day I have seen hibernated specimens of Aglais 

 nrticae between Boulogne and the Bois du Souverain Moulin, mostly 

 in very fair condition. 



March 20£h. — Whilst walking in the Foret de Boulogne, beyond La 

 Capelle, I saw two more hibernated specimens of E. polychloros. As I 

 have since last July observed odd specimens of this butterfly in the 

 Foret d'Hardelot, in the Vallee de Denacre, and to-day in the Foret de 

 Boulogne, it would seem that this species is quite well established in 

 the district ; the above places are some miles apart. 



April 3rd. — The " fortunes of war " have sent me to Italy, and 



