1890.] 



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respondents please include all they know, whether recorded or not. 

 that we may see whether some are more prone than others to remain 

 for a protracted period m pupa. — John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



Hesperia lineola, a British Butterfly — I have often com- 

 mented in these pages on the scant attention bestowed by collec- 

 tors upon the Butterflies. A little while ago the Rev. O. P. 

 Cambridge announced the capture of Lyccena argesias in Dorset- 

 shire ; now Mr. F. W. Hawes records the discovery of Hesperia 

 lineola. Both species have since been found in other collections, 

 having been passed over without notice, from their great resemblance 

 to another species — Lyccena alexis, in the one case ; Hesperia linea in 

 the other. The differences between linea and lineola are but slight. 

 The antenna of lineola is black above, yellow beneath, with a black 

 tip ; in linea the yellow beneath extends to the tip ; the black streak 

 on the forewings of the male is rather curved in linea ; in lineola it is 

 •quite straight, shorter, more slender and sometimes wanting. On the 

 underside of the hind wing there is a fulvous streak on the inner mar- 

 gin of linea that is wanting in lineola. The under side of the forewing 

 of lineola has also the basal half of the inner margin black, in linea it 

 is fulvous. The range of lineola is more extended than that of linea, 

 and there appears no reason why it should not be found in many parts 

 of Britain, but it is evidently not nearly so common. Both species fly 

 in July, perhaps linea is out a little sooner, and flies a little later than 

 lineola. — John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



Emmelesia Affinitata, var. Russata. — Mr. Gregson's note on 

 E. alchemillata var. russata is most interesting and helps to prove what 

 I have long maintained that parallel varieties are to be found in all 

 closely allied species. I have a specimen of E. affinitata in my col- 

 lection with the ground colour reddish-brown. The specimen was 

 taken in Chattenden Woods, near Strood, Kent, by Mr. J. Ovenden, 

 in 1883. The species is rare there, and an odd specimen only is 

 occasionally captured. — -J. W. Tutt, Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe 

 Park, S.E. 



GOSSIPING NOTES ON BRITISH COLEOPTERA, 

 By G. A. Lewcock. 



Cicindela gevinanica, L. — Mr. C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, Sher- 

 borne, kindly sends the following additional particulars concerning 



