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ties : — Wimbledon Common, Epping Forest, New Forest, Colchester, 

 and Suffolk. It may be worth recording that Galerucella vibinid was 

 rather plentiful on the aspens. This is curious as its proper food 

 plants are, of course, Viburnum opiilus, and more rarely V. lantana. — 

 Horace Donisthorpe. 



Notes on Entomology in France and Italy in 1918 [continued 

 from, paf/e 112). — June 80th. — This afternoon I visited the little lane 

 behind the Vdla Pisano and found females of 6^. ?7(a/»7e/ just emerged. 

 The females of Epinephelejurtina, which were crowding the blossoms of 

 the blackberry, Rnbiis fruticosus, have a marked tendency towards the 

 var. hkpulla by the prominence of fulvous colouring. T. acteon was, as 

 usual, very active, and the males of D. paphia were conspicuously 

 brilliant. The males of Thecta acaciae were flitting around the flowers 

 of the Italian acacia, and Syntomis phegea was now in such swarms as 

 to constitute a pest. 



July 2nd. — This afternoon the lane produced a fresh specimen of 

 Satynis circe, and I noted that 2\ acteon seemed to prefer flying among 

 the sword-grass. On the flowers of the ClematiA just now both sexes 

 of C. w-album, were swarming. I was shown a kingfisher to-day which 

 had been obtained by the river. 



July 4th. — I went up the light railway until the tunnel was 

 reached, when I turned to the right up the gorge past the big rocks, 

 and collected on the green sward in view of the first waterfall. Colias 

 hyale was very abundant here, and settled on odd plants of clover. 

 The males of Satiirn^ cordula flew slowly about the rocky ground, 

 frequently settling to avoid the gusts of wind. G. rhanuii was flying 

 up and down the stream, and A. paphia fed freely on the bramble 

 blossoms. Crossing the stream I ascended by the path leading to the 

 second waterfall. Here, where the stream crosses the path, several 

 males of Aryi/nnis cydippe [adippe) were settling on the soft, damp 

 earth on the stream side. They were var. cleodoxa, which is the pre- 

 vailing form here. A little further this species was swarming at the 

 blossoms of Scabiom columbaria and bramble. Going up the hill I 

 returned to Arquata by another route via Kigoroso. 



July 5th. — The hillside beyond the last villa, off the main road to 

 the right, was visited to-day. Along the paths leading to and around 

 the quarries, C. hyale was fairly frequent, and I noted for the first time 

 the males of I'olyommatiis meleayer in some number, and on the way 

 back I took two Anthocliarif; simplonia. 



July 10th. — Instead of going along to the quarries I to-day climbed 

 the steep hillside, and there in a small clearing the males of Brenthis 

 dia were fresh on the Aving. It was now too hot to stay long in the 

 sun in the mid afternoon, even with a sun helmet on, so collecting is 

 getting daily more curtailed. L. arion flies to and fro enjoying the 

 torrid heat, as do iS'. pruni, C. w-album, and T. ilicii> as they flib from 

 leaf to leaf and branch to branch. 



July 11th. — I again went up the gorge to the right, but went at 

 once past the little cemetery up the path between the hills for some 

 considerable distance. Near the stream I found M. parthenie in some 

 abundance and both sexes of Loweia dor His quite fresh on the wing. 

 Males of A. coridon were still emerging. The form here is rather 

 striking with a fine dark border, on the forewings especially. Last 

 night the following species came to light — Arctia villica, Malacosoma 



