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very scarce in the Forest owing to the very dry weather. The only other things I 

 found worth recording were two Eutheia clavata in a decaying birch bough, and two 

 Ehynchites cupreus, beaten from flowers of mountain ash, which were coming out 

 just as I was leaving. The usual Cerylon, PhilontJius splendidulus, and Scaphidium 

 quadrimaculatum, &c., were to be found under rotten bark and in decaying stumps, 

 and Triplax russica also occurred. In Newball Wood, near Lincoln, Sesperia 

 paniscus was very early, and was nearly over at the time at which it often appears 

 for the first time ; it is possible there may be a double brood this year. — W. W. 

 FowiEK, Lincoln : June 20th, 1893. 



A New Catalogue of British Coleoptera, compiled by Dr. Sharp and the Eev. 

 Canon Fowler, has just been published by Messrs. L. Eeeve and Co. — Eds. 



Anosia Flexippus (Danais Archippus) in the Atlantic. — I have recently had 

 occasion to show that the extraordinary immigration of Danais Archippus to our 

 southern and south-western shores must have been effected by direct flight across 

 the Atlantic from North America, the route with shorter sea passages from Brazil 

 by the Cape de Verde Islands, the Canaries, and South-Eastern Europe, being ex- 

 cluded from probability by the fact that all the D. Archippus taken here appear to 

 belong to the North American type and not to the variety leucogyne of South 

 America. This view is further confirmed by the fact, that not more than three 

 specimens were recorded as having been noticed on the Continent of Europe as 

 against twenty-eight captured or seen in this country. 



This view has just received unexpected confirmation. While at Grlasgow a few 

 weeks ago, Mr. J. J. F. X. King showed me several specimens of D. Archippus of 

 the North American type, which had been given him by an officer on one of the 

 vessels trading from Glasgow to New York. These specimens had been taken — 

 somewhere about the year 1880, the exact date was not preserved — on board the 

 vessel on its voyage out, upon the Atlantic, at a distance of from 200 to 300 miles 

 from the British shores. They were playing about the rigging of the vessel, and the 

 captor, who was not an entomologist, supposed them to be British insects. There 

 can, I think, be no doubt that these were a portion of a migratory swarm on its 

 way here. Yet it is curious that no specimens appear to have been seen in Ireland. 

 — Chas. a. Barrett, 39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : May, 1893. 



On a variety of Thecla ruhi. — I noticed in tlie last number of his new work 

 Mr. Barrett mentions Thecla rubi being taken in Norfolk with a black oval spot. 

 This form occurs quite as freely as the white spotted form on Cannock Chase, and 

 I never thought it was anything out of the way. This insect feeds here on bilberry 

 (Vaccinium myrtillus), and I have occasionally beaten it from birch, round which 

 trees the perfect insect is very fond of flying. The caterpillar is fond of eating its 

 brother's fresh pupa, thus resembling T. w-album. — Richard Fkeee, Rugeley, 

 Staffordshire : May Wth, 1893. 



Aporia cratcegi introduced. — When visiting the larvae breeding ground of Mr. 

 Edmonds, at Windsor, which is a most interesting place to visit, his manager, Mr. 

 Cyril Bowen, mentioned to me that he had for some years past imported Aporia 



