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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



end of October and early in November, and they were sold in his collection 

 by auction about twenty-eight years ago. I see in Mr. Burney's collection 

 there are several ppecimens, noostly, I think, obtained from the latter 

 neighbourhood. — Samuel Stevens ; " Loanda," Beulah Hill, Norwood, 

 Sept. 4, 1893. 



Nkmeophila plantaginis, Second Brood. — On May 22nd I found 

 this moth in great profusion, but nearly all were males. From three females 

 twenty-five eggs were obtained on May 26th, which hatched on the 31st. 

 The young larvse were of a pale sage-green colour, covered with long hairs. 

 They took readily to lettuce, upon which they rapidly fed up. After the 

 first change of skin, on June 8th, the colour changed to brown, finally be- 

 coming black, the ferruginous tufts of hair not appearing until after the 

 second cast of skin, on June 17th. The third skin was cast on June 27th, 

 fourth on July 10th, and fifth on July 16th. Three of the larvse spun up 

 on July 31st, the imagos (females) appearing Aug. 23rd. The remainder of 

 the larvse are still in various stages of growth. On Aug. 21st I took a 

 freshly-emerged male, and also found two larvae half grown. Eggs were 

 also obtained from a female captured on this date, which have since hatched, 

 the young larvse taking to the lettuce as before. — Edgar W. Lifton ; 

 Gloster. 



Phalera (Pyg^ra) bocephala feeding on Trop^olum. — Last 

 month (August) I found in the garden a small brood of P. hucephala, in their 

 third age, feeding on a plant of the common garden nasturtium (TropcBolum 

 lobbianum), which was growing out of a window-box. I very promptly 

 transferred them to a willow tree, as they were defoliating the nasturtium ; 

 but on looking on the willow next morning they were gone — perhaps 

 ascended the tree. I have in other years taken them a mile further out 

 from home, which is about two miles only from the centre of Manchester, 

 but never so near the centre before. Neither have I heard of them feeding 

 on nasturtium, having taken them on willow and lime (Gatley), sycamore 

 (Withington), and oak (Alexandra Park, Charlton, Withington, and Dids- 

 bury).— John Watson ; 177, Moss Lane East, Madchester. 



The Butterflies of Corsica. — Having spent five seasons at Ajaccio, 

 and having read Mr. Standen's notes on the butterflies of Corsica (Entom. 

 236), I feel induced to make some remarks on them in connection with my 

 experience there. Mr. Standen states that the families of Paniassius, 

 Melangaria, Erebia, Hesperia, and Thais are not represented in that island. 

 I have with me at this moment only a few notes of my captures there in 

 1892 and '93 ; but I have caught numerous specimens of Erebia, Hesperia, 

 Parnassius, and one specimen of Thais, round about Ajaccio and Cauro. 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby, in his 'Manual of European Butterflies,' names Doritis 

 apollinus, Thais cerisyi, Syrichthus therapne, Hesperia nostrodamus, Erebia 

 melas, Ccenonymjyha corinna, &c. ; L. Figuier, in his ' Insect World,' speaks 

 of Parnassius mnemosyne, Thais cerisyi; and Lang, in his ' Rhopalocera 

 Europse,' gives Erebia manto, Melanargia ines, Thais rumina, T. ptolyxena, 

 &c., as being found in Corsica. A Corsican friend who had been out with 

 me in previous years began to collect last year, and gave me, on my arrival 

 in January lust, some specimens of Erebia, among which I detected a few 

 battered specimens of E. melas. I have found two specimens of E. melas, 

 but of these two I will not be certain ; they may have been E. evias. I 

 have caught this year a battered specimen of Thais rumina, but it was in 



