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32 mm. 



Wings dark brown, shot with metallic blue. 

 II w. tailed. U.S. ashy grey, with a yellowish tinge, 

 with darker bands as in the last. The dark mark- 

 ings on h.w. form a W-shaped mark, like that in 

 Tkecla W-album, but more rounded. Two rounded 

 black spots near an. ang. on yellowish crescentic 

 patch. 



Hab. Mandschuria, N. China. 



Genus 20. LAEOSOPIS Ebr. Cat, Lep. Andal. 

 I. p. 33. 1857. Aurotis Dalman. 



Eyes not hairy. Hind margins not scolloped 

 near an. ang. in h.w. U.s. not streaked beneath, 

 but plain with a sub-marginal row of black spots 

 between white and orange ones. Antennae rather 

 long and with elongated clubs. There is only one 

 species in this genus. 



1. L. roboris Esp. 103, 5 (1789). Lg. B. E. pi. 

 xviii. fig. 4. Stgr. Cat. 1902, p. (58. Evippus Hb. 

 Vog. & Schrnet. t. 56, 57 (1793). 



34—37 mm. 



F.w. rather pointed, more so in 3 than in J . 

 H.w. with a very slight indication of a tail. 



L. roboris. Male and Female. 



J broadly dark brown along ou. marg. of all the 

 wings. F.w. with a triangular patch of shining 

 purple, extending over the greater part of the 



L. roboris. Under-side. 



wing area. H.w. purple in the basal portion, three 

 or four violet-blue spots on the ou. marg. towards 

 an. ang. ? rather larger than S- Blue patch 

 only on f.w. and solely on basal portion ; brighter 

 in colour than in <?. H.w. with sub-marginal spots 

 larger and more distinct, because lighter. U.s. 

 uniform brownish-grey. F.w, with an indistinct 

 sub-marginal row of black dots edged with white 

 and orange. H.w. with a similar row, but much 

 larger and brighter in colour. Marginal fringes 

 white, antennae black, tipped with yellow. 



Hab. South France, Spain and Portugal, also 

 Botzen and Meran. 



The distribution of this species is very limited 

 in South-western Europe ; it has not been taken 

 in any other parts but those mentioned under the 

 generic notes, and does not occur in any non- 

 European locality. VI. -VII. 



Larva. — Dull brown with a black dorsal streak 

 bordered by obscure yellow markings. Most 

 authors consider that it feeds on oak, but Fraxinus 

 excelsior is its real food plant. 



Laeosopis roboris is very fond of settling on privet 

 blossoms; but in 1901 I found it abundant at 

 St. Martin Vesubie in the Maritime Alps, round 

 low bushes of various kinds, especially on walnut 

 saplings. It flies only in the brightest sunshine, 

 and instantly disappears among herbage, bushes, 

 or the branches of trees directly the slightest cloud 

 overshadows the sun. Its flight is not by any 

 means strong, and it has a habit of returning to a 

 favoured spot if driven away from it. I found the 

 S abundant at the end of June, the $ emerging 

 at the beginning of July. 



Laeosopis roboris is illustrated herein, although a 

 figure of it occurs in '-The Butterflies of Europe," 

 as it is the only representative of the genus ' to 

 which it belongs. 



a. var. lusitanica Stgr. Iris IV. (1891), p. 232, 

 Stgr. Cat, 1901, p. 68. U.s. ochreous-grey. Mar- 

 ginal bands reddish ochre. Hab. Portugal. 



(To be continued.) 



COLEOPTERA NEAR CARLISLE. 



By James Murray. 



A FEW notes on my captures in this district 

 during 1901 may be of interest to other 

 coleopterists. In the early part of the year, under- 

 the bark of a fallen tree, I got a few specimens of 

 Cerylon histeroides and Bolitochara obliqua: and 

 from the dry skin of a dead hedgehog a long series 

 of Silpba tlwracica. Under a stone a single speci- 

 men of Badister bipustulatiis occurred. This beetle 

 is not very common here. As the spring advanced 

 collecting became more remunerative, and an 

 afternoon up the valley of the Petterill on May 11th 

 produced Bembidium atrocoeruleum and B.piinetu- 

 latum in numbers and a few B.fcnioratum. These 

 occur among gravel by the river-side. On muddy 

 flats by the same river Elaphrus riparius, Tacliyusa 

 flavitarsis. and T. constricta were commonly found, 

 but T. constricta was very local. A ramble on the 

 banks of the river Irthing on June 1st gave me 

 several good species, as Bembidium monticola and 

 B. schiippelli, Tachypus Jiavipcs, Stenus guttula, 

 etc. While searching for these, a dead but perfect 

 specimen of Aegialia sabulcti was found. 



The effect of sweeping a marshy place in a 

 meadow was to disclose two Poophagus sisymbrii r 

 and any number of Donacia sericea, Chrysomela 

 2)olita. etc. In the valley of the Gelt, Coeliodes 



