290 THE entomologist's keoord. 



regards size, and one $ is bleached, the entire wings being ahnost 

 unicolorous only faintly showing the band. 



The lichen-feeders did badly, the ova either did not hatch or the 

 larvae died— the seasonable conditions probably had to do with this, as 

 I have not netted a single ( 'Icora liclwiiaria in the garden, nor has one 

 come to light, although generally the insect is far from scarce. The 

 Acidalia about which I was in doubt, is sKbscn'o'ata, a neAV record for 

 these parts. Another is ('ahrra rotioidana, a specimen of which 

 emerged in June from a pupa which, as lui'va, I beat out of elder last 

 autumn. 



The pupse of Abraxas si/l rata,' hred from parents with purely leaden 

 grey wings from Yorkshire, produced some 40 imagines. All these took 

 after the type, not one resembled the ? parent. This corroborates last 

 year's experience. There were not even unusual blotches on any of 

 the specimens as I then found on four or five. 



Third broods have occurred this year in other instances besides that 

 of Z. annulata. Five of the pupae of the second brood of Drcpana 

 hinaria produced imagines in early September (one <? and four $ s) — 

 and almost an entire third brood of Z. porata appeared. In both cases 

 larvae of the second brood w^ere to be beaten out of the hedges at the 

 same time, and some of these have not even yet pupated. I expect 

 these partial third broods hardly ever occur under natural conditions. 



Susa in June : A further contribution to the Fauna of Piedmont. 



By H. ROWLAND BROWN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Mr. Tutt has very fully recorded his observations of lepidoptera at 

 Susa in August {Knt. Itcc, vol. x., pp. 89 and 118), and perhaps 

 the following notes upon my experiences in June last may be of 

 further service to collectors contemplating a tour earlier in the year in 

 these, apparently, little-explored regions. Crossing from Briancon to 

 Oulx I joined the Mont Cenis line at the latter place, after a cold and 

 rather disappointing journey, memorable rather for the confiscation of 

 my kodak camera by the Italian frontier police, than for any captures 

 of the entomological order. An hour or so in the train brought me to 

 Bussoleno, on June 20th, and finally I arrived at my headquarters. 

 The first two days, however, were sufficiently discouraging, as the rain 

 never ceased to fall with tropical violence, save for about an hour on 

 the 22nd, when I issued out net in hand to try my fortune at the back 

 of the town. As at Digne, I found the high country on the Mont 

 Cenis road generally unproductive, but the environs of the town, and 

 the beautiful Avoodland paths and meadows on the road leading up to 

 Sta. Maria della Losa, swarmed with insects of all orders. The season, 

 however, was by no means forward, and even this happy valley had felt 

 something of the extraordinary cold wave which seems to have swept 

 southern Europe at the commencement of April. In any case, I think 

 collectors who wish to find the Rhopalocera of Piedmont in all their 

 glory, will be better advised if possible to defer tlieir visit a week or two. 

 Mr. Tutt has described the geography, as well as the beauty which 

 delights the eye at every turn in this most jiicturesque of corners ; it 

 only remains, therefore, to give in detail the ()l)servations made by me 

 between June 21st and the end of the month. 



Hesperides. — Nisoniades tayen, going over in the high woods 



