38 the entomologist. 



Food-Plants op Callopheys avis, and Celastrina argiolus. — 

 Any doubt as to Arbutus (unedo ?)- being a food-plant of G. avis is set 

 at rest in the first part of fasc. xix, ' Etudes de Lepidopterologie 

 Comparee" (January, 1922) which has just reached me from Eennes. 

 This volume is devoted wholly to the Lepidoptera of Morocco, and in 

 the note on C. avis, Chpmn., it is stated that Mr. Harold Powell 

 found it rather common in the Zehroun district of the Lower Atlas 

 in March and April last year. The larva feeds there on Arbutus, on 

 which shrub a female was observed laying her eggs. In November, 

 1920, Mr. Harold Powell discovered larvas of Celastrina argiolus also 

 feeding inside the flowers of the Arbutus, and observed a female 

 ovipositing on the youug shoots of hawthorn in February, 1921, at 

 Mrassine. I mention this because neither Arbutus nor hawthorn is 

 included in Tutt's exhaustive list of food-plants for Argiolus (' Brit. 

 Butterflies,' vol. ii, pp. 410 and 447-448). In a shrubbery in my 

 garden, Ilex (loc. cit.), holly and Arbutus grow side by side, and ivy is 

 not far off, but I never saw the females egg-laying on Ilex, or 

 Arbutus which flowers here in October and is a great attraction to 

 P. atalanta, though I did once detect a female laying on Berberis 

 (Gallipoli, loc. ciV). I regret to add, however, that argiolus, which 

 bad been fairly abundant here for many years, disappeared entirely in 

 1920. Whether Arbutus is the food-plant of G. avis on the French 

 Biviera in those localities where Coriaria myrtifolia is absent 

 remains still, I believe, to be proved by experience. (Cp. Dr. 

 Chapman's, and my own notes on the subject, ' Entomologist,' vol. xlix 

 (1916), pp. 187-188.) — H. Bowland-Brown ; Harrow Weald, January 

 48th, 1922. 



Eromene ocella, Etc., in Lancashire. — On October 5th, at 

 11.45 p.m., I observed two moths at the window of my room. On 

 -examining same I find one is Eromene ocellea and the other Achrcea 

 grisella. I have been successful during past season in taking a nice 

 series of the new British species, Blastobasis lignea&ndwax. adustella, 

 along with intermediate forms. I have taken a few each year since 

 1918, but it was only identified last winter by Mr. Durrant. — Albert 

 E. Wright ; " Brunleigh," Kents Bank Boad, Grange-over- Sands. 



Pyrameis atalanta in December. — Perhaps it might be of 

 interest to record that I saw a specimen of Pyrameis atalanta on 

 December 11th, 1921. This seems rather late in the season for the 

 •species. — J. M. Jaques ; The Bed House, Banstead, Surrey. 



The Pupal Habit of Telea polyphemus. — My late friend and 

 .correspondent, Mr. E. N. Collins, who resided for several years in 

 Canada, removed about 1886 to the neighbourhood of Jacksonville, 

 Florida, and very soon after wrote me as follows : " Can you give me 

 .any idea why polyphemus here fastens its cocoon to the branch of 

 the tree instead of rolling it up in the leaf and letting it fall to the 

 ground, as it always does in the Northern States?" With the inquiry 

 he enclosed a small cocoon, showing the invariable attachment to a 

 twig of Florida cocoons, which is a strong silken pedicel about 5 in. 

 in length. I replied suggesting that in the Northern States the 

 -cocoons would lie warmer on the ground amongst dead leaves during 



