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larv8e are said to be cannibals, but tliose which were kept showed no desire to eat one 

 another. They had, however, all been stung by ichneumons, which may have 

 accounted for their gentler behaviour. As pointed out to us by M. Oberthiir, the 

 under-side of this species mimicks the inflorescence of the Biscuiella, on which it 

 rests, and not an umbellate inflorescence, as is the case with our E. cardamines. 



CoUas Edusa and C. Kyale. — Both these species were noticed, though not in 

 any numbers, and, contrary to what occurs in Switzerland, C. Edusa was the com- 

 moner of the two. Indeed, we only noticed C. Hyale on two occasions, once at 

 Vernet, and again at Biarritz. C. Phicomone occurred on the Pla Q-uilhem, and 

 near the Lac de Graube ; the specimens, though possibly a little darker, do not differ 

 materially from the Swiss form. 



Rhodocera rhamni. — We noticed a good many specimens of this species on the 

 Cabaliros, at an elevation of over 7030 feet. E. Cleopatra. — Noticed at Vernet, 

 and also seen in some abundance on some dry banks near the frontier town of 

 Hendaye, in the Basses Pyrenees. 



{To be continued). 



CALLIMORPEA HERA AT HOME IN SOUTH DEVON. 

 BY G. T. PORRITT, P.L.S. 



Mr. J. Jager, of Netting Hill, having written to me from South 

 Devon, that he was again taking Ofillimor^pha Hera, and wishing me 

 to join him, Monday morning, August 20th, saw me on my way to do 

 so. The sight of a grand series on his setting boards the same evening 

 made me impatient for next morning. Fortunately this proved fine, 

 and under Mr. Jager's guidance, I soon experienced for the first time 

 the pleasure of taking and seeing on the wing this grand moth, my 

 total for the morning's work being four specimens, whilst my friend 

 also took several. 'J he weather for the remainder of the week proved 

 most disastrous — almost incessant heavy rain and several thunder- 

 storms — so that scarcely anything could be done. The week following 

 opened magnificently fine, and continued so until my leaving on 

 Thursday, the 30th, by which time my "take " of C. Hera numbered 

 exactly twenty specimens, the proportion of the various forms being 

 as follows : — twelve red, four orange, and four yellow- (the var. 

 lutescens) underwinged. Mr. Jager's proportion of the orange form 

 was not so large as mine, but he said this variety had been more 

 plentiful than he had ever before seen it in any of the years he has 

 collected the species. He had a greater proportion of the var. 

 lutescens, which this year seemed to be almost as common as the red 

 type. The species occurs over a wide district, as we took them our- 

 selves three to four miles apart, and on all the intervening ground. 

 It is certainly not at all rare, and has, I should say, been well 

 established there for many more years than is generally supposed. 



