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about in the adjoining fields, which are, however, pretty closely grazed, 

 while Kimberland itself has been only partially grazed. The imagines 

 fly very gently, and may easily be taken by the hand in dull weather. 

 After a storm of rain, on the sunshine appearing, they often rise in a 

 beautiful cloud. The place is getting more unfavourable every year 

 for insects, owing to agricultural " improvements," although it yet 

 produces a good number of other local insects. It is now about to be 

 enclosed. 



Among the aberrations that I have taken may be mentioned the 

 following : — (1) The ground colour of the upper side uniformly 

 fulvous = ab. artoiiis, Fab. Some of these are remarkable, having, 

 in spite of the uniform colour of the upper sides, quite normal under- 

 sides, i.e., with cream-coloured bands, whilst others have the ground 

 colour of the underside also uniformly fulvous. (2) The type form = 

 ab. atirinia, Rott. (3) The ab. praeclara, Kane. One of this form 

 is very fine, the lower of the series of sub-marginal creamy spots on 

 the upper side of the fore-wings, uniting with the wide, basal, inner- 

 marginal creamy spot, making a large i i-like mark. 



The undersides of some of the specimens captured have the fulvous 

 colour uniformly spread, even over the usual creamy parts. Others 

 show the basal fulvous patch practically obliterating the central 

 cream-coloured band, and with the cream-coloured patches in the 

 basal area very nearly obsolete. One specimen, indeed, has these 

 patches obsolete, the basal fulvous area extending beyond the centre 

 of the wing, whilst a large creamy unspotted band extends from this 

 to the margin of the wing, and crosses the wing from the middle of 

 the costa to beyond the anal angle, its inner margin being edged with 

 dark fuscous. 



On the occurrence of Tephrosia bistortata and T. crepuscularia 



in Wales. 



I am decidedly of opinion that T. creptcicnlaria and 2\ bistortata 

 are distinct species. T. bistortata normally occurs at Swansea at the 

 eud of February and commencement of March, and is usually of a 

 more or less ochreous tint. T. crepuscularia appears normally about 

 May 10th, in the same locality, and is grey or black, never of an 

 ochreous hue. [I have taken T. crepmcxdaria in Hants (Winchfield) 

 in the second week of April, in a very restricted locality, amongst 

 larch growing in a large mixed wood, but have never seen T. bistortata 

 within miles of the locality. I used to take T. bistortata freely near 

 Reading, about fourteen miles from the last-named locality, also in 

 larch plantations, but never T. crepuscularia. In the Entoiii. Record, 

 vol. i., p. 62, I record the taking of both T. crepuscidaria and T, 

 bistortata on the same day (May 2nd, 1890) in the same locality, but 

 this is quite unusual.] In 1892 I bred my first T. bistortata, on March 

 20th, but did not find it in the Clyne Woods until April 19th. In 

 that year I first took T. crepuscularia on May IBth, whilst my last 

 T. bistortata was taken on June 4th, and my last T. crepuscularia on 

 June 6th; but this was a very unusual date for T. bistortata. Although 

 occurring together, I have never known them to copulate. In 1898 

 I took my first T. bistortata, on March 8th, and my first T. crepuscularia 

 (a pure black one) on March 25th, which is the earliest date for this 



