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in other specimens they did not reach up so far. It would be of 

 interest to know how, with regard to this feature, the pupa of this 

 species compares with that of /). ciUella. — Alfred Sich, F.E.S., Corney 

 House, Chiswick. November 26f/i, 1910. 



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Suggested difference in tint between the summer and autumn 

 EMERGING Aglais urticae. — I should be greatly obliged if your 

 readers would please say whether they notice any marked distinction 

 in the ground colour of A'jlais urticae in different broods. I have 

 specimens of a brood from Kent, bred out in July, which are quite 

 normal, but a brood from Cambridge (larvae taken late in September), 

 and bred out in October, were, with one exception, of a much paler 

 ground colour, inclining to yellow. — A. Sperring, 8, Eastcombe Avenue, 

 Charlton, Kent. Xoveinber 23rd, 1910. 



Local aberration of Abraxas grossulariata. — In the September 

 number, 1909, p. 197, you illustrated a wild specimen of an aberration 

 of Abraxas i/rnssulariata, taken at Charlton, Kent. I now send you 

 illustrations of two more specimens bred from wild larvte taken from 

 the same hedge. Evidently the aberration is a fixed one in this 

 locality. Considerable numbers of specimens, also bred from larvae 

 taken from the same hedge (a short strip of some eight or nine feet of 

 Enonyinus japonica) , tend in a less or greater degree to variation in 

 the same direction. — Id. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Exchange correspondence wanted with British lepidopterists. — 

 Some three years ago we founded here a society of young lepidopterists, 



