210 THE entomologist's record. 



August 7th. — L. Camilla was in the garden to-day, and several 

 were taken. The second brood seems much more common than the 

 first. A fine female Issoria lathonia was taken on a clover blossom, 

 and in the Villa a large female Ocneria dispar just emerged. 



August 8th. — A fresh specimen of Catocala nnpta was found in- 

 doors this morning, and I attracted a large number of males with the 

 0. dispar female I took on the 29th. I was able to select as many 

 males as I wanted in perfect condition. 



August 10th. — The garden to-day yielded a female Everes argiades, 

 the short-tailed blue, as well as specimens of L. Camilla. On the hill- 

 sides the Lycaenids were settling on the few flowers which the hot sun 

 had not caused to wither. A. coridon and P. icarus Avere still in good 

 condition. Pararge maera and H. comma were still out and in good 

 condition. 



August 11th. — Near the entrance to the first gorge, on the right, 

 in a clearing, L. avion and C. hera were taken, the latter wanted much 

 selection now. Past the cemetery Lycaenids were swarming, especially 

 A. coridon, and a fresh emergence of A. thetis. I also took a Melitaea 

 ciiixia with a good selection of M. dia. I saw worn specimens of 

 Epinephele titJwnns, the only ones I have so far met Avith here. Doubt- 

 less it is common in the plains. Catocala electa was still frequenting 

 its rocky ledge by the river. It seems very abundant here. Higher 

 up I took the Orthopteron Oed.ipoda iniidhta. 



August 18th. — In the garden a fine female of the var. cleodoxa of 

 A. cydippe, 8. stellatarum and H. com.ma, besides the now regular 

 habitue L. Camilla. A female Scolitantides orion was also taken a short 

 distance away. The hillsides were now so burnt up with the con- 

 tinuous strong sun of July and August that collecting was nothing like 

 so easy as in the spring. One had to walk and walk until one was 

 fortunate enough to find a clump of blossoms or some fresh grass in a 

 sheltered spot, and in these comparatively few places a family of 

 Lycaenids or of Melitaea would be met with. The Pieris napi now on 

 the wing were remarkable for the almost complete absence of colour 

 on the underside. The "green veins " being only of the faintest 

 yellow. 



August 15th. — I worked up the right bank of the river as far as 

 the clump of trees to which I have alluded before. Just before reach- 

 ing these over the short scrub growing on some stony ground, both 

 sexes of Satyrus arethiisa were flying in considerable number, and I 

 took a very good selection, as it was the first time I had observed it on 

 the wing. Working up the little gorge I struck the path leading from 

 Vocemola to Pietrabissara, but this time it yielded only S. seiiiele, 

 Plebeius aegon females, a male A. coridon, and a male L. Camilla, with 

 a small " emerald " moth. Earlier this path would no doubt be worth 

 working. The return was made along the river bed, where the 

 numerous pools left were visited, and specimens of .S'. arethu.ia, C. edusa 

 females, C. hyale, and Pontia daplidice were annexed. ■ Near Vocemola 

 1 took again the Orthopteron Oedipoda caendescens, which was numerous 

 here, and also a specimen of Dectictis verrnciinirus. [To be continued.) — 

 E. B. AsHBY (P.E.S.), Hounslow. 



(CURRENT MOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The BulL Soc. ent. Belg. for August contains (1) the first part of 

 an account of the Dytiscidas of Belgium analytically arranged with 



