184 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
plants, and it was a calm beautiful day, and so it could not have been 
blown up there, but there it was until it found a home in one of my 
boxes. On July 1st we had a wet morning, but the sun shone out 
well in the afternoon, though the foliage was still much bedewed, 
when on my way back from posting letters what should fly past but a 
Colias edusa. Naturally, I ran after it, and there settled on a bramble 
was a lovely quite fresh specimen, from its absolute spotlessness I 
should think it was in its first flight; it was however the only one I 
saw. . All the three ‘‘ whites” were common, napi especially so, and 
of this I took a large series of the second brood. ‘There is consider- 
able variation in these, more particularly so in the undersides. Iam 
still aceumulating specimens of this insect when I can, the important 
thing being to get series of both broods from the same locality. It 
will be interesting perhaps to observe that I saw several copulations 
of napi, and in each case the male carried the female in flight. Mel- 
anargia galathea was very common in one small area, but its habitats 
though wide-spread, are very circumscribed. The whole of the Argyn- 
nidae are to be found in the neighbourhood, and I think the Melitaeae 
also. MM. aurinia is not uncommon within half an hour of my rooms 
in the proper season, and even in July I took one very worn specimen. 
M. athalia is also to be found in the district. Brenthis selene and B. 
euphrosyne are always in evidence, whilst the three large species are 
common, and Dryas paphia and Argynnis cydippe (adippe) are extend- 
ing their range from the valleys and more sheltered spots even on to 
the moor itself. I was able to confirm observations of others as well 
as my own as to the copulating habit of paphia, for I saw the male 
carrying his mate several times; with aglaia, on the other hand, the 
female carries the male; I saw two instances of this. I was able to 
make extended observations of the egg-laying of D. paphia. In the 
cases under my notice they were always laid on the common bracken 
fern, sometimes on the fronds, but sometimes on the stem. I followed 
down one female in a lane and saw her settle in the hedge, creeping 
well in, but as it was fairly open [ could see her well. She approached 
some bracken, feeling about with her in-turned abdomen she tried 
several stems before making her selection, one »broken stem (not 
bracken) she spent much time over, but finally found one to her liking 
and laid a single ova low down on the stem, perhaps four or five inches 
from the root, then she flew out and preceeded to another spot and 
did likewise. Where there are large areas of the fern, however, such 
as Lustleigh Cleave and down by the weir, they settle on the fronds 
and bending their abdomen underneath deposit an egg below. I do 
not remember to have seen them deposit two ova at the same time, 
and where two are discovered together I should suppose them to come 
from different specimens. Aglaia is common all over the moor even in 
the most exposed parts. Another species common in all the less ex- 
posed lanes, but rarely seen on the high roads, 1s Aphantopus hyper- 
antus, but I have rarely taken any but the common form. Turning 
to the Lycaenidae, Bithys quercus is to be found in all localities around 
the edge of Dartmoor and also on the moor itself in sheltered spots, 
generally flying in the sunshine, but I twice found specimens on the 
ground; on one case, after a shower I was taking an evening stroll 
and saw one on the road with wings outspread, it allowed me to box 
it without trouble and was quite unharmed and a good specimen, I 
