VARIATION. 71 



Jg^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Oktholitha BiPUNCTARiA IN NoRTH Devon. — On August 14th last, 

 I took a pale typical specimen of OrthuUtha bipunctaria. There is no 

 chalk anywhere near here, and I do not know of any record of it in 

 tliese parts. I have never seen it before here during the twelve years 

 I have been here. Perhaps you may think it worth recording. — 

 T. H. Briggs, M.A., F.E.S., Rock House, Lynmouth, Devon. 

 Januarii 20th, 1910. 



Yponomeuta evonymellus, L., in Roxburgh.— We have much 

 pleasure in recording this southern Yponomeutid for the first time in 

 Scotland. We found it during September, 1909, in some numbers along 

 the north bank of the river Liddel, which here forms the " border." 

 The insects were thus only just in Scotland, but, curiously enough, 

 they were also within a few hundred yards of Dumfries-shire. The 

 actual locality was about two miles downstream from Kershopefoot 

 Station, but on the north bank of the river Liddel. The Yponomeutids 

 are a " difficult " group. It may therefore be well to confirm our 

 identification b}- stating that the insect is thus distinguished from its 

 near allies — white fringes to forewings — five or six longitudinal series of 

 black dots, lowest including eight to eleven dots. Meyrick says, 

 " England, North Ireland, local." — P. A. and D. A. J. Buxton, School 

 House, Rugby. February 18th, 1910. 



Cemiostoma (Leucoptera) laburnella, Stt., in Cumberland and 

 Roxburgh. — On August 23rd, of this year, we observed this insect in 

 large numbers on Cytisus laburnum in a garden at Stanwix, Carlisle. 

 We also found it during August and early September in great numbers 

 on a laburnum, at Liddelbank, which is in Roxburgh, within 100 

 yards of Cumberland and 300 yards of Dumfries-shire. Meyrick does 

 not notice it north of York. It may be worth mentioning that it is 

 common at Rugby, and also in Leeds. — P. A. and D. A. J. Buxton, 

 School House, Rugby. February 18th, 1910. 



W^ ARI A T 10 N . 



Melit.ea dictynna var. britomartis, Wheeler, from Reazzino. — 

 Mr. Lowe's paper, in Fnt. Rec, xxii., p. 34, just to hand, reminds me 

 that I ought to proceed faster with the examination of the ancillary 

 apiDendages of the Melitagas, which I have for some time contemplated. 

 There is, however, one fact that I think I have determined with 

 certainty, thanks to Mr. Wheeler having generously supplied me with 

 specimens, and that is, that the britoiuartis, of Reazzino, whatever the 

 true britdiiiartis may be, is a form of M. dictynna, very close, therefore, 

 to the var. vernetensis. It deserves a varietal name of its own, and I 

 should note it as var. uheeleri, the diagnosis being a form of dictynna, 

 very similar to the var. rernetends, which is found (double-brooded) at 

 Reazzino, in the Ticino. — T. A. Chapman, M.D., Betula, Reigate. 

 February 14t/(, 1910. 



BrENTHIS SELENE VAR. CASTILIANA, LoWE. BrENTHIS HECATE 



recorded in error at La Granja. — On reading the Rev. F. E. Lowe's 

 note on p. 23 of the current number of the Fntouioloyist's Record, I 

 examined carefully the examples, two in number, I had taken at La 

 Granja, in 1905, and had recorded in vol. xviii., p. 59, as Brenthis 

 hecate, and found that they are not that species, but are identical with 



