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not at all common. The females quite brown on the upper side, but 

 with orange marginal spots. Two or three specimens of ab. irarinuH 

 were also captured. P. melea(icr. — A few worn specimens of this fine 

 insect were taken in two or three localities, but it was quite over. I 

 caught a few at Aosta, in August, 1894, and a solitary female at S. 

 Michel de Maurienne, last July. 



Papilionid.t;. — Pajnlio podalirius and P. macliaon. — Kare, not 

 more than half a dozen specimens of each species taken. Evidently 

 we were between broods, or too late for the summer brood. 



PiERiD.E. — I am not quite sure whether I saw I'icria hrandcae ; at 

 any rate, I have not brought a specimen home. Pier is rapae. — Two 

 forms occurred, one in the wooded gorge, and one in the gardens 

 around the town. The former was not unlike that occurring normally 

 with us ; the second, probably ab. nu'ssani'nsis, was remarkable for the 

 intensity of the apical spot, the continuation of the latter down the 

 outer margin, the general suffusion of the fore-wings of the female, and 

 the presence of an extra black spot on the hind-wing, in a line trans- 

 versely with the costal spot. This latter form was to be seen in 

 dozens, sucking the moisture that oozed through the walls of the 

 vineyards, or at the gutter streams, or at any chance puddle in the 

 road. 7-*. na}>i. — A large form, ab. napacac, with scarcely any trace of 

 the green veins on the undersides. P. daplidice. — I have before re- 

 marked that this insect can fly. I never had such an excellent 

 illustration of its capacity as this year. It moves much more like 

 Colias (■(Iti.m than any other Pierid. There were plenty of individuals 

 about, but they were exceedingly wary as Avell as active. Peucojihasia 

 sinapU. — Local. There was a fair number of males in the wooded 

 gorge, but only two or three females. The apical spot of the males 

 was not particularly rounded nor black, and therefore not very unlike 

 our spring form. I also saw a few specimens in the meadows on the 

 Mont Cenis road, also in those towards Bussoleno. Colias cilusa. — 

 Strange to say, here, this species was mnch commoner than C. Iii/ale, 

 a very unusual occurrence. The specimens were fine, and evidently 

 just emerging. ('. hi/alc — Not uncommon, and oft'ering no special 

 characteristics. (inncptcnix rliamni. — So rare, compared with its 

 abundance at Aix-les-Bains, three weeks earlier, that, either the species 

 had hybernated, or a second brood may have been feeding up. It 

 would be interesting to have decided information as to an actual 

 second brood in nature, in southern Europe, of this species. 

 (To be continued. J 



The British Liparid Moths. 



By A. BACOT. 



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P. CHRYSORRHOEA. — Unfortunately, I have no notes on the 1st stage 

 of this larva. In the 2nd stage it is dull yellowish in colour, with the 

 exception of the 8th and 9th abdominal segments, which arc almost black. 

 The anterior trapezoidals (on abdominal segments) are either very 

 minute or absent ; I could find no trace of them ; the posterior are 

 large and many-haired. On the meso- and meta-thorax, four dorsal 

 tubercles are present, the anterior (i) well separated from the posterior (ii) 



