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cousin, on July 4th. L. beliavfjus, Rott Generally distributed. L.corydon, 

 Poda. Common everywhere ; first noticed at Vence, on May 14th. L. hylas, 

 Esp. Occurred at Vence, Caussols, and other places, but was never abun- 

 dant; first seen on May 29th last, I took a female example at Caussols, 

 on August 22nd, in which the yellow spots were absent from the fore wings, 

 and almost completely so from the hind wings. On the under side the basal 

 spot on the under side of the hind wings had the white surrounding the 

 black spot greatly enlared, while the dot itself was quite small. L. admetus 

 V. ripartii, Ferr. This local species was quite common at Caussols. Donzel 

 says that the insect flies in September; but I never saw any individuals of 

 this brood, though I stayed on all through the month. L. damon, Schiff. 

 Quite common at Caussols; the females, too, which seem usually scarce, 

 were not rare ; first captured, July 30th. L. sebnis, B. One specimen was 

 taken at Vence, on May 29th last. L. cyllarus, Rott. Appears to be pretty 

 generally distributed ; flies also in the mountains up to an elevation of 

 between 3000 and 4000 feet ; common on the coast at Nice. L. melanox)S, 

 B. I only took one specimen at Vence, on May 29th. L. arion, L. Nice, 

 in the Val Obscur and Vallon des Fleurs ; locally common on the coast in 

 places ; met with up to about 6294 feet ; first taken this year on June llth, 

 but it may be captured at a much earlier date. 



(To be continued.) 



BEMBIDIUM LUNULATUM, Geoffeoy, AS A NEW 

 BRITISH SPECIES. 



By the Eev. H. S. Gokham, F.Z.S., &c. 



. In the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for November 

 there is a very interesting note, by Mr. E. A. Newbery, upon a 

 species of Bemhidium hitherto unrecognised as a species, either 

 here or on the Continent, except by M. L. Bedel. As the editorial 

 remarks seemed to throw some doubt upon both this insect and 

 the species known to us as B. riiparium, 01., I turned at once to 

 my collection, and I can quite corroborate Mr. Newbery's observa- 

 tion ; and I fully agree with M. Bedel that there are three species, 

 abundantly distinct, and easy to separate. These insects, together 

 with B. eeneum, and B. guttula, and B. mannerheimi, form the 

 section or subgenus Philochthus ; and the species now noticed as 

 B. lunulatum of Fourcroy is, to my mind, as distinct from either, 

 as they are severally from each other. Indeed, I have never 

 mixed them. I do not find B. (sneum myself; and during the 

 summer of 1892 I took several Philochthi, I think generally by 

 the sea-shore, hoping to get B. aneum. One of these I had. 

 placed doubtfully as that species, the remainder I had kept with 

 undetermined insects; they are the species which M. Bedel 

 identifies with B. lunulatum. This species is, however, to be 

 attributed to Geoffroy rather than Fourcroy, who only edited the 

 publication, ' Entomologia Parisieusis,' in which it is found. See 



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