+ 
154 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
one from the same district in 1887, one from Horsley, 1887, and one 
in the Webb collection. 
T also took an example of var. roystonensis, but apart from this all 
. the females were of very ordinary type, and without traces of blue.— 
8. G. Castie-Russett, ‘“* Monkswood,” Woking. August 9th, 1918. 
Tue Szason at Royston.—We have had various reports or partial 
reports, verbal and otherwise, from Royston of this season’s results in 
the famous Herts locality. Some say it was not so good for variation, 
others that plenty of aberrations could be picked up by persistent 
effort. Mr. Pickett has promised later on to give our readers an 
account of his sojourn: there in the past two years. Meanwhile, he 
says, ““It was a very good year, especially for males; I have never 
seen such quantities in any year I have been there. Ab. suffusa of 
Agriades coridon was very common and some lovely forms of it were 
taken. Ab. fowleri turned up more than usual, as far as I could hear 
about fourteen were taken. The ‘blue’ was later in appearing this 
season and seemed to go over mere quickly than usual.” <I hear 
that about twenty collectors went to the ab. synyrapha ground and 
that not many were taken this year.” —H. J. Turner. 
LimMENITIS SIBILLA IN SurrEy.—With reference to Mr. Muschamp’s 
note under this head, it may be worth while to record that on July 
22nd, 1917, I saw a rather worn specimen of this butterfly on Wim- 
bledon Common. If its presence here was not due to human agency, 
it would be interesting to know what is the nearest locality from which 
it might be supposed to have come. I noted at the same time that 
south-west winds had been prevalent for some days.—L. D. Waxes ty, 
34, Lancaster Road, Wimbledon. 
GYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
May we ask those of our readers who are members of local Societies 
that publish Annual Reports, Proceedings, &c., to get their Hon. 
Secretary to send us a copy for review. Much useful matter, local 
records, original observations, new facts, or new grouping of old facts, 
papers of more than local interest, and often figures of rare and new 
aberrations and species tend to be hidden for years unless an endeavour 
be made to obtain a more than local dissemination. That wonderful 
paper of Mendel, which brought into biological investigation an entirely 
new idea, an entirely new conception of the nature of living things, 
remained hidden for five and thirty years in the pages of an obscure 
small local society. , 
During May appeared the belated parts II., III., and IV. of the 
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1917. They 
contains (1) A Revision of the Lycaenid genus Varucus, by G. T. 
Bethune Baker, F.L.S8., illustrated by seven plates, one of which is 
coloured. Several new species are described, including one 1’. mediter- 
raneae from Keypt. There are two species found in the eastern part 
of the Kuropean area, viz., T. balcanica and T. theophrastus. There is 
especial stress laid on the evidence afforded by the palpi and andro- 
conia. (2) Notes on some Hymenoptera from British Guiana, by 
G. E. Bodkin, B.A., with three plates, illustrating imagines and nests. 
