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hX^yJ^q odrmo-a beautifully change- 

 \\ // able tints exhibited 



on the leathers of a 

 magpie's tail, and 

 differing but slightly 

 in colour from the 

 groundwork of the 

 same wings in ordi- 

 nary specimens; but, 

 in the place of the usual cream-coloured markings, the primary 

 wings are ornamented with corresponding obscure irregular 

 black blotches, of a darker hue than the rest of the surface. 

 The inferior wings are black, with an irregular red mark 

 towards the centre of each, and a tinge of the same colour 

 towards the base. These two wings are not uniform, the red 

 mark both in the centre and at the base predominating far 

 more widely on the left than on the right side. The body is 

 red, with a black stripe down the middle ; the last two seg- 

 ments of the abdomen and the anus are black. It is a large 

 specimen, the wings expanding full 2\ in. To those who 

 take pleasure in contemplating nature's frolics, the present 

 variety cannot but prove interesting. I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 — W. T. Bree. Allesley Rectory, June 13. 1833. 



Glee' a rnbiginea at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. — Some 

 years since, I captured there a remarkably fine specimen of 

 this insect, which is now in the collection of J. C. Dale, Esq., 

 as a small return for numerous entomological favours. — 

 Francis Orpen Morris, Charmmth> .Dorset, Sept. 1852. . 



Corrections and Additions to the List of " JButterflies which 

 occur around Pontnewydd Works, Monmouthshire" (p. 224' — 

 228.) — To render my list of butterflies complete,. I must 

 plead guilty to the necessity of many of Mr. Bree's remarks, 

 (p. 375—376.). The English name of clouded yellow [p. 375.] 

 must be substituted, in p. 224., for clouded sulphur. The 

 latter is not in this locality; and, 1 believe, is reckoned as 

 an English fly, upon doubtful authority. My MeWtdea Dic- 

 tynn«, in p. 225., is certainly a mistake ; and I now beg to 

 substitute for it M. Silent : and I cannot refrain from advert- 

 ing to the exact and beautiful representation of it, as given 

 in Wood's Index Entomologicus, plate iii. fig. 3. undersides. 

 Polyommatus Alexis [p. 376.] I did not give, because I was 

 not perfectly certain of its existence here; though I have 

 every reason to believe that it is common. The figures in 

 Wood's Index do not exactly agree with the fly which I take 

 to be the P. Alexis ; and, unfortunately, he does not give the 



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