138 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
17 Cochlidion avellana (Limacodes testudo) sembling to a wild female, 
which I stumbled across more or less by accident. I am glad 
to have established the fact that it is there in fair numbers, 
but the wood is coming down for aeroplane work. ‘This war is rapidly 
destroying, what money cannot replace, our beautiful English 
Woods. My wife and I saw, but failed to catch, though we both did 
our best, a large butterfly yesterday rather larger than Argynnts paphia 
and asandier brown, it flew extremely fast and wildly, not unlike Pyramets 
cardut. I feel confident it was not Anosia pleatppus (archippus), 
whieh is a lazy leisurely flier. I have seen that on the wing twice so 
I know its flight. The insect would be about the size of A. archippus, 
but though I know a fair number of exotics, I can’t guess its identity, 
it is very likely to have been an ese¢ape, or a liberated insect. It wasa 
Nymphaline of that I feel satisfied (nasty puzzle to meet a butterfly 
you don’t know, anda great vexation to fail to catch it). The flight was 
nearly as wild as Saturnia pavonia, but more sailing and less buzzy. 
Pavonia flaps all the time and never banks to turn ; this insect banked 
to turn as Limenitis sibilla does——W. Parxinson-Curtis (F.H.8.), 
Parkstone, Dorset. June 24th 1918. 
Dares oF APPEARANCE oF Limucania viteLtina.—Mr. W. Daws is 
wrong in his belief that September 20th is the earliest date for the 
appearance of Leucania vitellina in Britain (Hint. Rec., June, 1918). I 
have repeatedly taken it before that date on the South Devon coast. 
A reference to my series gives the dates of the specimens in it as 
follows. The first three are labelled September 1st to 7th, 1899; the 
next seven September 16th to October 2nd, 1900, but there is no 
indication as to how many of them were captured before the 20th; 
and the last four September 18th, 19th, 23rd and 25th respectively. 
On September 19th, 1908, Mr. T. A. Lofthouse and I took five and 
missed a sixth, as I recorded in the Hnt. Mo. Mag. of November, 1908, 
p. 255. All these specimens were taken at sugar on the same ground. 
I send this note, that Lepidopterists wishing to take this insect may 
not go for it too late-—Gno. T. Porrirr, Huddersfield. June 25th, 
1918. : 
A SWIMMING GRASSHOPPER.— When I| was looking for Hemiptera in 
a pond here, I knocked a grasshopper into the water. It fell about 
18 inches from the bank and commenced to struggle, and I then saw 
it was getting under the water. When it was well under it began to 
swim, using its hind lees and its front ones, but not its intermediate 
ones. It swam back to the bank and climbed up a stem out of the 
water. I put the insect back into the water and let it swim again. 
The insect was not apparently much exhausted after its swim. I do 
not know what species of grasshopper it is so I enclose it for examina- 
tion. Could you return it if possible. I enclose stamps to cover the 
postage.—-G. E. Hurcuinson, ‘‘ Woodlands,” Holt, Norfolk. June 20th. 
[The species is Tetria bipunctatus. Neither Dr. Chapman nor I 
were aware of the fact that a grasshopper would apparently be so 
much at home in the water.—H.J.T.] 
Notrs rrom Hy&res: THE IMMIGRATION oF PyramEtis cARDUI.— We 
had a great invasion of Pyrameis cardwi along the Riviera at the 
