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With UH this butterfly haunts the lofty fir-forests, where the ground is clothed 
.ith bilberry (Yaccinu^m myrtUUs), mosses, and straggling plants of wild thyme 
Thymus serpyllum) . It is to be met with throughout the month of July In order 
o obtain food, it generally resorts to the open places where T. serpy to grows 
aore freely, and displays plenty of blossoms. There we may often meet with his 
>utterfly in company with hosts of Hip.arcUa Semele and Alcyone, Lp^nepnele 
,ycaon (EudoraJ, Cc^nonympKa Arcania, all quenching their thirst in he nectar 
,f the flowers of large patches of thyme. At night it reposes between the needle- 
[eaves of some fir-bush, where it may be rather easily seen. _ 
Spending a day (July 28th, 1857) in the Giogau Stadtforst (a locah y visited 
by Mr. Staintontwo years previously, as recorded in the Entomologist s Annual 
for 1856 p 128), I took the opportunity in the morning, before the heat of the 
day, to ;atch closely the females of Arion, which were fiying slowly, and to observe 
'"'^'rw'hem sit down on the stems of TKy.u. serp.Z^um, and, aftersipping 
from a few flowers, bend their abdomens between the flower-stalks, on which^they 
deposited a pale green egg, sometimes not without some apparent pains. I gath red 
a score or so of twigs, each with a single egg. In the afternoon I noticed them 
proceeding in the same manner, but as it was then too hot m the sunshme, the 
oviposition was only performed under the shade of the trees. 
Now what became of these eggs ? I totally neglected them ! Having found 
it so easy to obtain them, I postponed breeding the larv. for some other year 
when I should be less busy ! But from that day to this I have never obtained any 
more egc^s, and here at Meseritz the species is so scarce that I have had no oppor- 
tunity of observing the interesting history of our largest Blue. 
I may mention, in conclusion, that, as the larvBs appear to pass the winter 
when about half-grown, it will probably be no easy work to rear them to maturity.- 
P. C. Zellek, Meseritz, Marcli 29th, 1869. 
Notes on the food-plant of Lyc.na Corydon and Ccnonympha D-^^^-^j^l^ 
respect to the notices given in this periodical (vol. iii., P- 70 and 91) on this 
subiect, I beg to make the following remarks .— ^i- i. i . 
In the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung for 1852, p. 125, I published a 
detailed natural history of L. Corydon, and stated that its food-plant is Oo— 
.ana. This is most certainly the case in the neighbourhood of Frankfort-on-the- 
Oder, Giogau, and Meseritz, where there is neither chalk nor Eippocrep^s con^osa 
In the higher parts of Carinthia the latter plant is likely to be fed upon by L 
Corydon, ^or there the H^ppocr.p^s grows in the greatest profusion m all the meadows 
whete the butterfly occurs, and no CoroniUa (excepting, I believe, CErn.^^ 
During the first years of my residence at Meseritz I sawno Cor,do.,and fewplants 
l..La,. but'as the northern roadway became ^^er the plaut became more 
frequent, thus last year, not far from the town. I was gladdened wi h the sight of 
a few Corydon, which no doubt had followed the spread of its food-plant 
I add a few words on the food-plant of C. Bavus. In England i is stated to 
be Eh.nchospora al^a, I indicated a Car.x with long and ;™. ^^^^^^^ ^*;; 
possible that with us the larva may feed on the Ehyncho.pora, but ^^^^^^^ 
not as yet found only on one peat-swamp, which I have never visited in summei. 
