250 [November, 



as early as i\rarc]i 23rcl. Zizera minima has been recorded for the 

 District in the '' Ashmolean " list by the late Mr. F. W. Lambert, but 

 is evidently local and rare, and I know of no recent captures of the 

 species. 



One of the most interesting of our smaller woodland butterflies is 

 the lively little Nemeohius lucina, Avhich may be called abundant in 

 places where primroses and cowslips grow freely at Bagley and Tubne}" 

 Woods, Cothill, Wytham Park, &c., in May and early June. Hesperia 

 viaJvae and Thanaos tages are both common, especially in the open parts 

 of W}^ham Park; and Adoj^aea thazimas and Augiades sylvanus are 

 equally or more plentiful as well as more generally distributed. 



Two other butterflies may at a former period have had a claim to a 

 place on our Oxford list, though they have certainly not been observed 

 in the District in recent years. Bagley Wood is given as a localit}'^ for 

 Melitaea atlialia in Morris's " British Butterflies," but the nature of the 

 ground looks, to say the least, unlikely for this species, and its usual 

 food-plant, Melampyrum pratense^ is decidedly uncommon in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Oxford. Oarterocephalus palaemon was certainly met with 

 in past yeai-s not rarely at Wychwood Forest, Enstone, and one or tv\^o 

 other Oxfordshire localities, and probably still exists in some of these 

 stations ; Imt the rumom* that it was for?uerh' taken in Bagley Wood still 

 lacks conflrmation. 



Aoraiigi, Lonsdale Road, 



Summer town, Oxford. 

 October I6th, 1918. 



Coleopiera in iht Plymouth district and from the Lizard, Conncall. — 

 Anchomenus parumpunctatus, ab. ^tibialis Hear, one, edge of bog, Shaugh 

 Moor, v/lo; ^Atheta excellens Kr., one S, <>iit of moss ou boulder, in the 

 river, near Cadover Bridge, viii/16; *A. perexiyiia Shp. and A. li/ijmtafia 

 Bris. {tesf^ Dr. Camerou), a single example of each, swept off grass in a 

 field, Spriddlestone, Brixton, vi/16 ; ^Placusa tachrporuides Waltl, two, at 

 &ap of felled tree, near Lee Mill, v/16 ; Tackinus riifipeunis Gyll., J and 2 ? i^ 

 sugar-trap, Shaugh, x/l5 ; Neuraphes anynlatu^ Miill., one, swept from hedge, 

 near Yealmpton, v/16, and N. lotiyicollis Mot«., one, swept from hedge, Plymp- 

 ton, v/18 (both teste E. A. Newbery) ; *Pteryx suturalis Heer, three, under 

 bark of decaying fir, Plympton, v/18; *Coryloph{S suhlaevipennis Buv., one, at 

 roots in the sand, Downderry (Cornwall), viii/05 ; *Cla7nbus punctidum Beck, 

 two, Yelverton, vi/14, Ivybridge, ii/94, Canu Woods, vi/97; *Trachyp1dueiis 

 suyrmecophilus Seidl., one, with J>j>7«/ca, Whiti=ands (Cornwall), v/11 ; Linmo- 

 bnris t-alhum L., many examples, near Saltash (Cornwall), vi/15, and Bere 

 Ferrers (Devon), vi/16; *Dcporuiii manncrheimi Humm. {meyacephulus Germ.), 



