366 .NOTES ORIGINAL AND SELECTEU. 



summer to no purpose, but on a sunny but breezy afternoon 

 towards the end of August I was on Sandy Point, St. Osyth, and 

 noticed a solitary to hovering over a patch of sea lavender. This 

 specimen, on being boxed, proved to be the long-sought for 

 cyauostica. I carefully examined a large number of specimens 

 until the middle of September, but could not find another. 

 Vanessa atalanta and V. uvticce were common in the clover- 

 helds, but I saw only two C. cavduL — B. G. Cole, Biick- 

 hurst Hill. 



Aberrations of Epinephele Janira and E. Tithonus. — 



At St. Osyth last August I met with two or three nice 

 aberrations of these species. E. janiva was, of course, very 

 abundant. Two specimens of the female were caught, in which 

 the usual fulvous patch was of a yellowish-white colour. Among 

 the thousands of E. tithonus which were fluttering over the 

 blackberry bushes I picked out a female specimen, the left 

 forewing of which was of a silvery-white colour, tlie other wings 

 bein"" normal. In meadows, near Chigwell Row, occurred (in 

 1902) a male of E. janiva in which the light patches were 

 putty-coloured. — B. G. Cole, Buckhurst Hill. 



BOTANY. 

 Uncommon Plants in Epping Forest. — Among the 

 plants observed in recent years by the students of the Leyton 

 County School are, Ovohanche niajov, on roots of broom^ Epping 

 Forest, near Cook's Folly, 1902 ; Utriculavia {yulgavis P), common 

 in ponds in Epping Forest, 1903-4 ; Bee Orchis, Ophiys apifeva, 

 Epping Forest, June 19th, 1904, Miss L. Berry. The 

 Utriculavia has not been observed in flower. — T. Petch, Ley- 



tonstone. 



GEOLOGY. 



Changes in the Essex Coast. — For several years the 

 British Association has been receiving, by permission of the 

 Admiralty, systematic reports from the Coastguards, with 

 reference to chanties in the coast of Great Britain. A great 

 mass of matter has thus accumulated in the form of tabular 

 returns, and an analysis of this material, by Air. John Parkinson, 

 has recently been published by the Association. The following 

 is the only information given with regard to Essex : — 



" Concerning the coast from Harwich to the Roach River, observations from 



