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Variety of the Pink-under-wing Moth. (Callimorplia Jacobaeae.) In the 

 Slimmer of 1854, Mr. J. Fox, one of our best collectors, had rather a peculiar 

 specimen of tlie Pink-under-wing Moth, (Callimorpha JaoobcBa,) of which I 

 send you an exact copy, which I leave you to describe ; the Moth was bred 

 from the lai'va. Another was captured on the wing, by Mr. Towle, one of our 

 members at Newstead. I took some of the small Tiger Moth {Nemeophila 

 Plantaginii) larvae, in April, 1854: in May, they went into chrysalis; and in 

 June the perfect insect appeared. One pair I observed to copulate, and the 

 eggs I kept until they hatched ; and to the larvae I gave some nai-row-leaf 

 plantain, which they soon began to feed upon. They were all in one large 

 flower pot in the garden, and yet one half grew twice as large as the others 

 and I could not account for it. Up to September they fed very well ; and all 

 at once they left off, and the large ones began to undergo tlie change, and by 

 the 5th Sept., I had some twelve chrysalides, the others had been dormant 

 up to March 13th, when some of them began to show signs of re-anima- 

 tion ; those that changed in September, lay from the 5th to the 28th, when 

 the perfect fly emerged, — that being the second brood in the year. Is the 



above a common occurrence ? — J. Morley, New Basford, Nottingham. 



Along with the above, Mr. Morley kindly forwarded a nicely coloured figure 

 of the Pink-under-wing Moth. The parts which are usually crimson, in this 

 drawing were of a yellow-ochre colour. In other respects it presented the 

 usual appearances. — B. R. M. 



Callimorpha Hera. — I mentioned, some time ago, in The Naturalist, the 

 undoubted fact of a schoolfellow of mine having taken Orgyia v-nigrum near 

 Faversham in Kent. Other specimens have recently been taken near Can- 

 terbury, in the same neighbourhood. Samouelle, too, gives Darenth wood, 

 also in the same county, as a locality for it. I have recently obtained Calli- 

 morpha Hera from Guernsey, where Dr. Lukis informed me it is tolerably 

 common ; and as this fine species has been likewise expunged from tha 

 British List, I mention this that it may be again restored to its place therein. 

 It clearly ought to be so, as the leading and most eminent conchologists and 

 botanists now authoritatively enrol Guernsey shells and plants as British 

 species. — F. O. Morris, Nunburnholrae Rectory, Hayton, Yorkshire, Aug. 8th, 

 1855. 



In No. 56 of The Naturalist, page 229, in an article headed Extracts from 

 Correspondence with a Brother Naturalist, by F. M. Burton, Esq., speaking 

 of the Gannet, that gentleman says, — " Its structure is most curious ; on the 

 under parts of the body the skin does not, as in all other birds I have seen, 



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