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district of Germany so I do know the insect. Ihave a long series of 
geryon from Hodd Hill, and EK. R. Bankes took a good series in my 
company, but he was as satisfied as | was that what we got were geryon, 
and we worked the entire hill very carefully. Adscita geryon is the 
only Dorset ‘‘ forester’ approaching even regular occurrence according 
to my own experience. [Possibly some of our readers may be able to 
comment on the above.—H.J.T.| 
WOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 
ELATER SANGUINOLENTUS SCHR., RETAKEN on.WimMBLEDON Common. — 
On May 28th, when hunting for bees for my friend the Rev. F. D. 
Morice, on Wimbledon Common, I observed a red “ Elater”’ crawling 
up a grass stem, and on picking it up I was surprised to find it was 
Elater sanguinolentus. A few more were netted as I strolled about 
looking for Hymenoptera, and others were seen flying over the birch 
trees, ete. On June Ist a friend who was anxious to obtain this beetle 
accompanied me to the same spot, and a nice series was taken on young 
birch, oak, and sallow; others being captured on the wing. As far 
as I am aware this species has not been taken on Wimbledon Common 
for some 25 years, when the last specimen was captured by Prof. 
Hudson Beare. I have always regarded it as one of those beetles (in 
company with such as Stenus kiesenwettert, Anchomenus sexpunctatus, 
etc.) which have disappeared from Wimbledon, probably on account of 
the large numbers of people who frequent the common on high-days 
and holidays, etc. 
Rye [British Beetles, 183 (1866)| writes—‘‘ EHlater sanguinolentus 
occurs at the roots of heath on Wimbledon Common, where it has also 
been taken copiously on the blossom of the nettle.” 
I personally did not want the insect, as I have taken it (in common 
with many other Coleopterists) in the New Forest, where it is usually 
found by beating young Scots Firs. It has been recorded from the 
following other British localities :—Darenth Wood, Richmond Park, 
Epping Forest, Salisbury, Christchurch, Oxford, Bewdley Forest, 
Woking, Newbury, and Wellington College.—Horacr DonistHorpE. 
Nores on Enromotoeican Cotiections in THE Mountains oF Sicrty. 
—On April 10th of the current year my wife and my daughter Hrilda 
left Florence to go to Sicily to collect Lepidoptera. They arrived at 
Palermo on the 15th of the same month, but had to spend several days 
‘to find a convenient locality in which to make collections. On April 
20th they took up their abode in San Martino delle Scale, a little 
village of about 200 inhabitants, near Monreale, at about 2,000 feet 
above the sea, and at once began collecting along the slopes of the 
neighbouring Monte Cuccio (8,000 feet). . The vernal broods of Pieris 
rapae, Pontia daplidice, Gonepteryx cleopatra, Pararge megera, Callophrys 
rubi, and Rumicia phlaeas were already in full decline, and only a few 
defective specimens were collected. Even the specimens, all males, of 
Colias edusa (croceus) were a good deal damaged. The form does not 
correspond at all to the vernal form of Tuscany, named vernalis by Dr. 
Verity, but in size and colour appear to be that of our second brood. 
Of Polyommatus icarus, of the Italian vernal form, there were as many 
