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Lathyrus sylvestris (the " wood vetch "), and this may probably serve as the food of 

 the larva. Hesperia ActcBon also occurs in the same district ; but is extremely 

 local. — H. Goss, Sidmouth, Devon : July 17th, 1893. 



Lycana Arion in North Cornwall. — I am glad to be able to record the occurrence 

 of this species in a nevr locality. Many of the males were worn on the 20th ulto., 

 and the last straggler of the females which I caught to-day was passe. — Id., 

 Worth Cornwall : July 1st, 1893. 



[Those entomologists who have i-ead my remarks at p. 135 ante will understand 

 that it is with great regret I find this insect is being pursued into what may probably 

 be looked upon as its last stronghold in this country. I purposely omit the locality, 

 which is quite new. — E. McLachlan]. 



LarvcB of Lyccena Arion, L., on Origanum vulgare. — On the 1st ulto. I found 

 five empty ova of Lyccena Arion, L., in the Yallon des Fleurs, Nice, on Origanum 

 vulgare (marjoram), and, supposing that where there had only recently been eggs 

 there would probably be caterpillars, I searched and found ten larvae, measuring ^a 

 of an inch each. They were all found on two plants. The ova were laid on the 

 small bracts of the flowers, which the caterpillars devour, together with the petals. 

 As far as I am aware, this is a new food-plant for the larva of Lyccena Arion, which 

 is only stated as living on Thymus serpyllum (wild thyme), though I have long 

 suspected it to feed on Origanum vulgare — ever since July 22nd to 26th, 1890, in 

 fact, when I saw females of the species apparently ovipositing on flowering plants of 

 Origanum, in the Yal Obscur (Nice), where this plant grows in abundance, far sur- 

 passing the thyme in quantity. I may add that this year I took, together with the 

 caterpillars above referred to, seventeen imagines of Lyccena Arion (June 29th, 30th 

 and July 1st). The perfect insects are now beginning to get rather worn. 



Milli^re says that ^rjow is "... assez rare," but, from my experience, I 

 should be inclined to consider it only " local," but common where it occurs. 



In the two seasons (1890 and 1893) in which I have collected Arion on the 

 coast here, I have met with a beautiful variety which seems to be confined entirely to 

 the female, being found in the proportion of about one in six examples of the 

 type. This form measures l-j\ inches in expanse, and in colour is of a pale and 

 brilliant electric-blue, the spots on the fore-wings are very large and jet-black and 

 coalesce, with the exception of the two nearest the inner margin ; the hind marginal 

 band is very broad and black. The dots on the hind-wings, however, are normal 

 both in size and coloration. — F. Beomilow, Nice, France : July 3rd, 1893. 



Colias Edusa. — We netted a ? of the above on the high ground between the 

 Mumbles and Langland Bay, near Swansea, on July 6lh. It was a good deal worn, 

 and had probably hibernated. — A. Nash, Standish Vicarage, Stonehouse, Q-louces- 

 tershire : July, 1893. 



I^averna Stephensi. — This pretty little species may be found in July on the 

 trunks of three or four of the old oaks on Tooting Beck Common. I have never 



