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lightning storm to the right of Monte .Spineto, unaccompanied by 

 thunder or rain, which lasted throughout the night and resulted in an 

 unmistakeable cooling of the temperature in the morning. I again 

 bicycled to Pietrabissara, and as there was little wind I did better than 

 the week before. Lyniantria dupar was very abundant, the females 

 flying later in the day than the males, while Lasiocampa qiiercm was 

 dashing about in the blazing sun. F. iiieleat/er was plentiful in the 

 gorge, and I took a perfect Limenitis Camilla second brood. The first 

 brood was on the wing in the last part of May. Among the "Burnet" 

 moths captured to-day I took a nice specimen of the ab. coronillae of 

 Zygaena ephialtes. This species will possibly take the place of 

 Syntoinis phegea, which was now for the most part in worn condition. 

 L. avion was still on the wing. 



July 27th. — On the tree trunks toward Arquata, besides boxing E. 

 antiopa and S. hennione, I took the beetle Stenostola ferrea, and from 

 the road more Aimnophila sqbulosa. . A fine specimen of Apopestes 

 spectrum was taken in the Villa to-day, the first I have met with. I 

 noticed that the Pieris rapae in the gardens now, especially the females, 

 were remarkable for the deep black of the spots and tips, much darker 

 than the summer forms met with in England. 



July 25th. — This morning as the wind was in the north we had 

 another magnificent view of the snowy mass of Monte Rosa over the 

 plain of Piedmont. The imagines of C. electa were still plentiful on 

 the rocky ledges along the river, and. although they have not come to 

 light I find specimens of them in the Villa in the morning, possibly 

 from the steep hillside behind the house. 



July 30th. — In the garden this afternoon I saw a specimen of 

 Calli»wrplia hera, and took several females of Colias eclasa as they 

 settled on the clover heads. A feature of gardens in this district just 

 now is the quantity of marguerites, white with yellow centres, together 

 with fine masses of hydrangea blossoms from the palest blue to 

 various shades of mauve. In the gardens of Rigoroso I have seen 

 sunflowers of exceptional size. [To be continued.) — E. B. Ashby (Lieut., 

 F.E.S.), 1919. 



D. NERii AT Eastbourne. — On September 13th an Oleander Hawk 

 Daphnis {C/merocampa) nerii was brought to me. It was found emerg- 

 'ing from the shrubs on the Wish Tower, Eastbourne, and in very 

 good condition, but one antennae is missing. Curiously it was found 

 within a hundred yards of the specimen of this moth which I recorded 

 as having been taken on Jul)^ 14:th,' 1904. To-day I took a pair of 

 Ar/riades coridon, the Chalk Hill Blue, in cop. Is not this an extremely 

 late date ? — S. A. Chartres, Eastbourne. 



(ggURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



In the Eiit. Neirs for July, L. \V. Mengel describes a new species 

 of Perisama from S. America, P. sineruha near P. cotgora, Hew. J. D. 

 Mitchell gives a list of the plants upon which the omnivorous larvae 

 of the Arctiid ['iacrisia vivf/inica were ohsevved feeding in 1917. There 

 are 42 plants and shrubs enumerated, plus " all garden truck." The 

 writer describes the habits of the species and the various means of 

 combatting the evil which is emphasised by there being no less than 



