7 9 f March, 



male — although variations occur on both sides, — and also that in some 

 specimens these dorsal markings appear in a faintly cloudy degree, 

 becoming more distinct in others, and forming a graduated series. 

 After repeated and careful examinations, I am convinced that parvu- 

 lana is nothing more than a variety of Scopoliana ; its small size being 

 mainly due to the dimensions of the seed-head of Serratula tinctoria, 

 in which its larva usually seems to feed. A character which has been 

 suggested as proper to parvuJana — the yellowish head — is altogether 

 unreliable, the same variation in head-colour appearing in most un- 

 mistakeable and full-sized Scopoliana, and giving place to brownish in 

 many of the smallest specimens. 



Farvulana has not, I think, been recognised as a distinct species 

 on the continent. Wocke includes it in his list, but as a species 

 unknown to him, and located only in England. 



I have especially to thank my friend Mr. Eustace Bankes for 

 furnishing this most exhaustive series for examination. 



Somerset House : 



February 6th, 1890. 



NOTES ON THE COLEOPTEEA AND LEPIDOPTERA 

 (EEOPALOCEEA) OF NORWAY. 



BT O. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



I propose to give a short account of the CoJeopfera and Lepidoptera 

 (or rather of the Uliopalocerd) observed by me in Norway from June 

 16th to July 13th last. That on the Lepidoptera will supplement Dr. 

 Jordan's papers in this magazine on the same subject. 



The Coleoptera, as might be expected, are very similar to those of 

 the Scottish highlands, only they are not nearly so numerous as in such 

 localities as Aviemore or Braemar ; various Longicornia, Hydradephaga, 

 Staphylinidce, Malocode^'mata, &c., not found in Britain, however, 

 occurred. But with the RhopaJocera, owing, no doubt, to the short 

 but very hot and dry summer, at least in the eastern part of the 

 country, it is very different ; and, I must say, I was unprepared to 

 meet with such numbers so far north ; these, however, mostly con- 

 sisting of three or four species of Argynnis, the individuals of this 

 genus apparently outnumbering all the other butterflies together in 

 Norway. In two localities, one at a low elevation, Lillehammer, and 

 the other at a much higher one, Domaas, I saw butterflies almost as 

 numerous in individuals, of course not in species, as I have seen 

 them in certain localities in Switzerland. In these places, at the time 



