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frantic shouts and climbed the cliff with net and boxes, the little beast, 
after sitting within two feet of my face for quite ten minutes, dived 
into the reeds. I was quite mortified at its loss, because it was pre- 
cisely the last insect I expected to see there, but I could not mistake 
an insect I was so familiar with in broad daylight, within a few feet of 
me, that gave me time for leisurely examination, June 24th, 1911. 
Lyme Reeis.—Aricia medon (astrarche) plentiful (W & M). 
This sums up all the information, outside Dale’s Lepidoptera of 
Dorset, that I have been able to get together. Personally I think it 
is enough to make one long for more, and I wish a kindly fate would 
decree me three years leisure in three good seasons, with an unlimited 
supply of maps, petrol, and money, to explore the district thoroughly. 
I believe that the result would be astonishing, and any way the 
country is some of the most charming in Britain, in its variety of 
level, of strata, and hence of plants and general character. 
J]WoOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 
Tue Season’s Nores.—Bournemouth. Bees are out. Diacrisia 
sannio (russula) larvee are feeding and so are larvee of Arctia villica.— 
W. Parkinson Curtis (F'.E.S.), Parkstone. February 4th, 1918. 
Bournemouth. Hibernia leucophaearia, Phiygalia pedaria and Tor- 
tricodes tortricella (hyemana) are all out and flying about.—Ip. Freb- 
ruary 26th, 1918. 
Sherwood Forest. Hibernia leucophaearia and Phigalia pedarta are 
already common this season. — Witu1am Daws, Mansfield, Notts. 
February, 1918. 
Some Fietp Norrs ror 1916-17.—Owing to the strenuous times 
in which we live my opportunities for collecting and observation have 
been very much curtailed, but such opportunities as I have had have 
been very much appreciated, if only for the opportunity afforded of 
taking one’s mind off the war for a time. The winter of 1915-16 was 
very mild, and my first observation was of a queen wasp walking on 
the path, at South Norwood, Surrey, on January 4th, 1916, enjoying 
the brillant sunshine and mild temperature. 
On January 11th Isawa g Hibernia leucophaearia on an oak trunk 
at Midhurst, Sussex, and some honeysuckle in leaf. On April 25th I 
saw my first Pieris rapae, at Hast Dulwich, and on the 27th Celastrina 
argiolus was flying at Croydon. The following day I had a female of 
the same species emerge in my cage from pupz I collected at Christ- 
church, Hants, the previous autumn. On April 29th, at Edenbridge, 
Kent, wasps were plentiful and busily engaged gnawing at oak palings, 
while ‘‘ bluebottles ’’ were sunning on the trunks after hibernation. I 
mention the latter, because_I read an article in the Illustrated London 
News, about a year ago, in which it was suggested that observations 
were needed to find out whether the house fly and bluebottle fly hiber- 
nated through the winter as an imago. 
Surely there can be no doubt about the bluebottle hibernating as an 
imago, as I have frequently come across it on a warm day in the depth 
of winter, both inside and outside the house, and the chipped wings and 
dusty condition of the insect showed that it was not freshly emerged. 
On May 18th, at Dorking, the only insects seen were some Huchloé 
cardamines, flying along the edge of a wood, and C. arytolus round 
