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Colutea grows, feeding on heather-flowers (but have only seen it here on 

 this single occasion in some thirteen years) ; in another suitable year, 

 1899, we saw it on the heaths of Fontainebleau Forest, also busily feeding 

 on heather-bloom, whilst in these same favourable years it also occurred 

 in the Rhone valley, among the Colutea bushes at Branson and Sierre ; 

 in another good year, 1904, we saw it again among the Colutea bushes 

 growing in the wild-flower wilderness at the foot of Mont Saleve, and 

 in those specially suitable years, it usually reaches Guernsey, Belgium, 

 and even warm spots in Germany, and is then generally attached to 

 gardens and exhibits the habits, which one is accustomed to see in it, 

 at Nice, Cannes, and its chosen haunts along the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean. Weir observed a specimen, in August, 1878 (?), on the right 

 bank of the Rhine, close to Coblenz, flying on a piece of waste 

 ground sparsely clothed with vegetation and consisting principally 

 of Ononis arvensis (Ent., xii., p. 83), but it is of very rare 

 occurrence in Germany, even as an immigrant. A few examples 

 were recorded in August, 1828, near Aachen, once also at Basle, 

 and in the "forties," it was noted, without details, from Alsace, and 

 possibly two other specimens — one on the Schotzach, between Thalheim 

 and Hookheim, in 1849, and another in the Stuttgart valley in the 

 autumn of 1859, both recorded as telicanus, and these are the onlyrecords 

 we have been able to obtain. As may be expected, the connection 

 with the Mediterranean areas being more direct, it is not so rare 

 in southern Austro-Hungary, and appears singly in most parts of 

 central and northern Hungary, e.g., Pecs, Eperjes, etc., but near 

 Budapest more frequently in September and October, possibly more 

 like its uncertain comparative abundance in the Channel Isles ; in the 

 southern parts, however, e.g., Fiume,it occurs more commonly, evidently 

 in the same way as along the rest of the Mediterranean littoral 

 (Aigner-Abafi). It is also exceedingly rare and local in Switzerland, 

 for, although recorded in the Valais in 1771, by Fuessly, 120 years 

 passed before it was again noticed, yet, in what we may call " boeticus " 

 years, it appears pretty regularly on the hot bush -covered slopes and 

 gardens of the low-lying parts of the Rhone Valley, e.g., near Geneva, 

 the Folleterres de Fully, near Branson, near Aigle, etc., but only in these 

 years. It is still more rare in Belgium, occurring sporadically in the 

 large private parks where Colutea grows (Lambillion). It occurs in 

 Transcaucasia in August and September, but appears not to be recorded 

 from central Russia. The south of England, Belgium and Germany, 

 appear to be the most northern limits of its occasional wanderings ; 

 and these wanderings from its Mediterranean haunts appear to be 

 more frequent in central France than elsewhere. When found there, 

 it usually haunts gardens, parks, the outskirts of woodlands, etc., e.g., 

 parks and gardens in Berry and Auvergne (Sand) ; the little thickets 

 surrounding the gardens in Doubs (Bruand), gardens and pastures 

 in the Gironde (Caradja), gardens where Colutea and Genista are grown 

 in the Bordeaux district (Trimoulet), etc. 



Reputed British examples of Lampides bceticus. — Of the follow- 

 ing specimens reputed to have been captured in Britain, we must leave 

 our readers to judge as to which are, and which are not, worthy of 

 credence. [The species is known to have reached the Channel Islands 

 in 1859, 1872, 1889, 1892, 1899, 1900, and 1904.] The unsatisfactory 



