716 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Chingford to Loughton. Two more fresh male A. (N.) hispidaria 
were taken and another P. pedaria (pilosaria) just out, but A. lewco- 
phaearia were still rare—only three seen. 
At Ongar yesterday the sallows were almost out, the yellow in the 
catkins already showing quite strongly on sheltered bushes and the 
moths are evidently going to keep pace with them as last evening 
(the 24th) a specimen of Taentocampa stabilis flew in the house where 
Iam staying. This isa record for earliness, as far as my experience 
goes, and is nearly two full months ahead of last year, when at Hind- 
head the sallows were only just ready to work on April 24th.— 
Russert James, Brockenhurst, Bloomfield Road, Highgate, N. 
February 25th, 1918. 
Tue Season.—lI think it may perhaps be of some interest to record 
that butterflies are plentiful here (near Chelmsford) this spring. I 
have seen a good many Aglais urticae and Vanessa io flying in our © 
garden and also in other parts of this town during the past week and 
both species in very good condition. 1 also saw on the 20th inst. two 
good specimens of Pieris rapae flying in the hot sunshine, but these 
may have emerged in the hothouses and escaped through the ventilators, 
as one or two have been noticed flying in the hothouses here lately. I 
noticed one P. rapae flying towards the roof of our house, when a 
sparrow, sitting on the trough, darted at it several times and missed 
it ; then the bird gave it up and allowed the butterfly to fly off un- 
molested. While travelling in the train on the 21st I noticed three 
Gonepteryx rhamni within about five minutes, all flying in the hot sun- 
shine on the side of the railway bank, which faces the morning sun, 
between Shenfield and Brentwood about twenty miles from London. 
One wonders whether this is going to be a good butterfly year.—(Miss) 
K. Minxar, The Croft, Rainsford Lane, Chelmsford. March 26th. 
A New Mersop or Mountine ann Paresekvine 1n Series.—Dr. 
Roger Verity, of Florence, has contributed an article to the Bull. Soc. 
ent. de France, on a new method of mounting and preserving Lepidop- 
tera in series. He points out the great advance which the study has 
made during the past decade and that the material required for the 
continuance of this is much greater than hitherto has been necessary. 
Hach locality, each season should be represented, as well as each race. 
In fact thousands of specimens are necessary, now, where only dozens 
were wanted before. Such being the case our present system of pinning 
and arranging in drawers and cabinets is, he says, unnecessarily 
cumbrous and costly, often necessitating the moving of large numbers 
of specimens to view the undersides, with the possible chance of much 
damage. In conjunction with M. Orazio Querci the following method 
has been adopted by him. 
“The butterflies are mounted, without pins, between two plates of 
glass separated by a small frame formed of squared slips of wood, a 
centimetre wide, along the margin of the glass plates and keeping them 
sufficiently apart to allow for the thickness of the bodies of the butter- 
flies. Frame and glass are held by a band of paper attached around 
the margin and overlapping on to the glass. The butterflies arranged 
in horizontal and vertical rows are held in place by dark threads, very 
thin, but strong, stretched on the frame of wood and holding the wings 
