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besides seeing it in a small collection of Lepidoptera from the Caucasus. 

 In the Alps it occurs at a comparatively low elevation, having been 

 found by me in abundance a little below the altitude of 2000 ft. It does 

 not appear to be so common in the Pyrenees. — W. Harcourt-Bath. 



Committee for the Protection of British Lepidoptera in Danger 

 OF Extermination. — The first meeting of this Committee, appointed 

 by the Entomological Society of. London, was held at the Society's 

 Rooms, on Oct. 14th, 1896, Professor Meldola, President of the 

 Society, in the chair. Letters from the City of London Entomological 

 and Natural History Society, the North London Natural History 

 Society, and the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, express- 

 ing warm sympathy with the object of the Committee, were read. 

 After discussion of the best methods of securing the objects of the 

 Committee, it was resolved to invite information as to species in 

 special danger of extermination, with a view to future action. — Chas. 

 W. Barrett, Hon. Sec. ; 39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. 



Corrections. — P. 296, Eoman numeral I (accidentally broken off 

 in printing) should begin first line of label. P. 310, line 3, Miss G. E. 

 Ormerod was born December 23rd (not July 23rd), 1823. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Larvje of Calligenia miniata eating Imagines of the same 

 Species. — I had a batch of the larvge of C. miniata, and some of them 

 have already attained the perfect state, whilst others are still feeding. 

 The most remarkable thing, however, is that the larvae have seized on and 

 devoured the moths, although they were well supplied with their proper 

 pabulum in the shape of lichen. In attacking the moths the larvae fasten 

 on to the top of the wing, and then proceed to eat the head and wings 

 first and afterwards the thorax and body. — C.J. Boden ; 204, Hanover 

 Buildmgs, Tooley Street, S.E., Sept. 12th, 1896. 



Aporia cRATiEGi IN Kent. — I have the pleasure to record the capture 

 of this insect, which as a British species is I believe almost extinct, in a 

 locality in Kent where it has previously been taken and recorded. I do 

 not care to give the exact locality, beheving it to be the only one in England 

 where the butterfly now occurs, for if it became generally known the species 

 would undoubtedly in a very short time be exterminated. I may say that 

 the insect is confined to an area of about a few hundred square yards. — 

 H. Douglas Stockwell; 2, Albert Road, Dover. 



Ch(ERocampa NERii NEAR DARTMOUTH. — I was paying a visit to a 

 Mr. Owen, who was then living at Stoke Henning, near Dartmouth, in 

 September, 1892, having been asked down to make the acquaintance of 

 one of his boys who had a strong taste for Entomology, and to whom I had 

 sent now and then duplicate butterflies and moths. On seeing him almost 

 the first words he uttered were, " What do you think, Mr. Morres, we 

 caught the other day on the honeysuckle on the verandah — an oleander 

 hawkmoth !" On seeing me look rather incredulous he brought it to me 

 on the setting-board, when it proved a fine specimen of C. nerii, and of an 



