294 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
sort.—Prrcy C. Rem, Feering Bury, Kelvedon. July 380th, 1900. 
[The Ichneumonid you send is undoubtedly the species referred to 
Glypta lugubrina, of Holmgren (Mon. Pim., p. 41), by Bridgman in 
Tr. Nov. Nat. Soc., v., 71, since it is identical with specimens so 
named by him in my collection. He says (l.c. 68) that the central 
abdominal segments are less transverse and the mesopleura and 
metathorax are much more finely and sparingly punctate than in G. 
mensurator, Gr., with which Holmgrén synonymises it. It is, how- 
ever, probable that Bridgman later considered them identical, since he 
records only G. mensurator, Gr., from Norfolk, in 1893. Mr. Bignell 
has not met with it in South Devon, though I should suspect it to be 
widely distributed and not uncommon throughout the country. The 
Glyptae are, I believe, invariably parasitic upon micro-lepidoptera— 
generally upon Tortrices. G. lugubrina has been bred by Mr. G. T. 
Porritt from Hupoecilia hybridellana, and on the 18th of last July 
Miss Alderson kindly sent me from Worksop a 3g G. ceratites, Gr., 
which had emerged during the morning of the 11th, ex. Tortria 
xylosteana, fed upon yew. G. lugubrina (luquorina, sic) is figured in 
Knowledge, v., 245. The specimen you send belongs to Holmegreén’s 
var. 1=‘'Coxis rufescentibus fusco-maculatis, segmentis mediis 
abdominis lateribus rufis.’ I never heard of an Ichneumonid 
ovipositing in vegetable matter, and suspect the presence of an animal 
host despite the observations of Mr. Reid, with whom I have corres- 
ponded upon the subject.—CraupE Mor ey. | 
CHANGE OF COLOUR IN PUPA OF APATURA IRIS JUST BEFORE EMER- 
GENcE.— When in the New Forest at the end of May last I became the 
_ fortunate possessor of two larve of Apatura iris, which were found by 
my brother feeding on Salix caprea. They fed up well on Salia cinerea 
which I had growing in my garden, and became pup, the first on 
June 15th and the second on June 17th. The imagines, both gs, 
emerged, the first on July 8th and the second on July 10th. Twenty- 
four hours prior to the perfect insect emerging the pupa changed in 
colour from a whitish-green to a most beautiful bluish-green. I 
cannot find any reference to this change in colour in any of the notes 
I have read on the pupa of A. iris, but presume it is usual.—A. 
Russet, F.E.S., Southend, near Catford, S.E. August 28th, 1900. 
Hasrrs or Contras HyALE.—While on my holidays at Folkestone, 
August 11th-27th, I was very pleased to see Colias hyale turn up after 
a few years’ absence. During my stay I took 41 specimens and saw 
over a hundred. I found their flight commenced about 9.30 a.m., and 
from then until about 1 p.m. I never observed them to settle at all. They 
flew very swiftly up and down the face of the cliffs, making it difficult 
to catch them. From 1 p.m. till about 3.380 p.m. their flight was 
much less strong, and they settled at intervals, and it was, therefore, 
much more easy to secure them, whilst after 3.30 p.m. I did not see 
any on the wing. I did not observe any to pair, although they would 
occasionally fight with the ‘“‘ common whites.”’ One thing in particular 
I noticed with regard to their distribution, and that is, they seemed to 
occur more freely in one dip of the cliffs called ‘‘ the horseshoe” (a 
nice sheltered cliff in the shape of a horseshoe) than elsewhere. 
Whilst the sun was gradually rising to its zenith C. hyale flew on the 
west side of the hollow directly opposite the sun; at noon they 
preferred the north side, whilst in the afternoon they shifted to the 
