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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S UKCORD. 



One of the spotted females, at first referred to, has in the tawny 

 sub-apical area two black dots on the underside of the primaries, there 

 being only the least trace of a tawny spot between veins 4 and 5. 



Two others have the whole of the radial area below more or less 

 tawny, with two black sub-apical dots in the primaries, with two 

 large sub-apical spots in the secondaries, the one specimen having 

 them tawny in colour, and the other almost lemon-coloured. 



The remaining female form is blackish all over above, with the two 

 sub-apical black dots fairly distinct, and below them two other black 

 dots, but less distinct, one on vein 4 and one on vein 3. On the 

 underside the tawny patch on the primaries is reduced, though dis- 

 tinct, and in it are two distinct small black spots, the secondaries have 

 a series of four ochreous interneural small spots. Of this form I 

 have two specimens very closely similar. 



There yet remain five males which are nnicolorous blackish above, 

 and very dark below, but each of which have a small tawny patch in 

 the upper radial area of the primaries on the under-surface. Most of 

 my specimens were taken on July 26th, 191 1, and all about that date, 

 this being, I suppose, a week to a fortnight later than Mr. Warren's 

 captures, and possibly about a similar period later than Mr. Rowland- 

 Brown's series, for he had the pleasure of meeting the latter at 

 Gavarnie, and so he may have taken a few more on a later date than 

 Mr. Warren. 



My series, however, shows that E. (/avarniensis also varies after the 

 manner of E. manto, both in the manner and coloration of the 

 markings on the underside. In July, 1897, I found K. manto fairly 

 commonly in the Sefinen Thai, near Miirren, and I have also taken 

 it elsewhere, and the undersurfaces of both sexes varied very con- 

 siderably in that one valley, just as E. (/avarniensis does in the Val 

 d'Ossoue. Perhaps I ought to apologise for occupying so much space 

 in the magazine, but I thought my experience with both species might 

 be worth recording. I should add, however, that I do not know a 

 small form of the Pyrenean insect equivalent to E. manto ab. 

 pyrrhiila, Frey. 



:]^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Camptogramma fluviata at Ramsgate. — I took a ? C. jhtriata in 

 fair condition on a fence between Broadstairs and Ramsgate on 

 November 16th. — L. W. Newman, Bexley. 



Sklenia eilunakia (illunaria) in December. — A freshly emerged 

 ? specimen of N. hihmaria [illunaria) was found in the wild in our 

 Bexley Woods to-day December 9th. — Id. 



(CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Our daily "scrap gatherers " are at times forced to make up their 

 complement of pages with short stories whose character may be 

 literary or may not. A few days ago the Westiirinster Gazette had one 

 such tale, in which the hero was a Member of Parliament who, having 

 arrived in sight of the local station on foot some considerable time 



