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emerged from the wood ; instances of this have occurred.— 

 Joseph Andkrson, Chichester. 



Daphnis nerii at Studland, Dorset. — On September 3rd my 

 daughter found in the path a newly dead specimen of Daphnis nfrii 

 (Oleander Hawk-moth). Its head was crushed and the thorax a little 

 knocked about as it might have been if killed by a bird and then 

 dropped, bub it was quite limp aud fresh and otherwise in good 

 condition. As I know its appeai^nces in England have been of very 

 rare occurrence and only after spells of warm, dry weather such as we 

 had a short time ago, I thought it worth writing to you in case it is 

 worth recording* When I return to town I should be pleased to bring 

 the moth to show you if you would be interested. — Hugh G. Riviere, 

 -88, Abercorn Place, London, N.W. 8. 



Dorset. — On July 23rd we started for Dorset for a combined motor 

 tour and butterfly hunt, and after passing through Coventry, Warwick 

 and Stratford- on- Avon, spent the night at Cheltenham, and the next 

 day travelled via Bath and Wells to Dorchester, where we made the 

 -"King's Arms" our headquarters. In selecting Dorset for a holiday 

 ground we were influenced by the desire to find Agriadea coridon ab. 

 fowleri and to see if it occurred along the ranges of chalk hills which 

 •extend from Swanage to Dorchester and beyond, but had our 

 happmess depended upon fowleri we should have had a rather gloomy 

 time. In the first place the season seemed to be rather a late one, and 

 though we scoured the hills in several directions A. coridon was not 

 met with until July 30th, when two males were taken between 

 Bridport and Dorchester. Then a howling wind did not improve 

 matters, and this persisted for about 10 days, making catching very 

 difficult except in the sheltered hollows. The Dorset folk boast of this 

 wind as one of their assets in keeping the county fresh and cool, but 

 we could have dispensed with a good deal of it without tears. 



On the 25th we visited Lulworth Cove and were soon busy among 

 the Thymelicus acteon, many of which were already worn, the females 

 being quite as bad as the males, but we managed to select a short 

 series. On our second visit on August 2nd they were much more 

 plentiful and in fresher condition, and we found them flying more 

 Ireely on the top of the cliffs, than among the broken ground near the 

 bathing tents. We kicked up one Selidosema ericetaria (plninaria), but 

 no A. coridon were met with. The sea was a glorious blue, and it was 

 pleasant to renew acquaintance with the yellow horned poppy, 

 samphire, and other sea-loving plants. 



On July 31st we went over to Swanage. A. coridon was by no 

 means plentiful and males only were seen, but among them was the 

 only specimen of fowleri taken during the trip. A second visit was 

 made on August 4th, and a third on August 6th, but only ordinary 

 forms of A. coridon could be turned up. None of the Dorset females 

 showed more than the slightest sprinkling of blue scales. Two or 

 three T. acteon were noted near the lighthouse at Swanage. 



On July 28th we tried a wood off the Weymouth Road, but found 

 only Dryas paphia and Argynnis aylaia, with swarms of Melanargia 

 galathea (the latter being very plentiful in almost every locality we 

 worked), and went on to Weymouth and the Isle of Portland. Among 



