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Dilophus ternatus, Lw., is oasilj recognised by tlie presence of three clumps of 

 thorny processes on the front tibiao instead of the usual two. Chyliza vittata, Mg., 

 may be known by its having the tliorax entirely reddish-yellow (<J), or with three 

 wide black stripes ($), and pleurre yellow with a broad black stripe. In dark 

 female specimens the thorax and pleurse might well be called black with yellowish 

 markings ; the hind femora have a faint dark ring at the tip, and the wings are 

 clouded as in C. hptogaster. Dr. J. H. Wood has taken this species at Stoke Wood, 

 Herefordshire, also in June. 



The genus Tanypeza, formerly considered to belong to the Micropezidx , has 

 been proved by Hendel (Wien. Ent. Zeii., 1903, pp., 201-5) to form a subfamily of 

 the Ortalidn', characterized by its bristly subcostal vein, by the absence of the pro- 

 thoracic and sterno-pleural bristles, the approximating eyes of the male, the very 

 long legs, the long narrow body, the well-developed transverse suture of the thorax, 

 and partly by the narrowed first posterior cell of the wings. 



I would add that Mr. A. Piffard, of Felden, had previously determined the 

 Tani/peza for me ; this I did not mention to Mr. Collin when I sent it to him. The 

 Dilophus was sent to me by Mr. Claude Morley, the other two by Mr. W. Tuck, of 

 Bury St. Edmunds. — E. N. Bloomfieli), Guestling : January, 1904. 



Variation in Leucania Javicolor. — Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., has most 

 kindly allowed me to examine a grand series of this new Leucania which he secured 

 at sugar near Harwich last June. These specimens give me a far more extended 

 idea of this pretty species and its variations than we previously possessed. From 

 the soft smooth honey colour of the typical forms these show the fore-wings tinged 

 with red-drab in a less or greater degree, till a deep red, almost a coppery-red, is 

 reached, with a gloss and smoothness very different from the dull and plain 

 appearance of the allied species, and decidedly so from the more pinkish-red ap- 

 pearance of some forms of L. pallens, in which also are always closely placed white 

 lines all over the fore-wings. Moreover, these L. favicolor maintain the greater 

 breadth of the fore-wings, and the decidedly more robust habit of body. Still more 

 interesting than these red specimens are two or three in which the fore-wings are 

 of a distinctly light yelloto, almost of the colour of L. viteUina. Altogether this 

 series, apart from its rarity, is of extraordinary interest.— Chas. G. Bareett, 

 Tremont, Peckhara Rye, S.E. : Fehruary,\^Q^s. 



Vanessa cardui in great numbers near Hunstanton. — It was on a Thursday 

 in October last that we were driving to Hunstanton. After passing Heacham 

 there is a rise by Heacham Hall and then a short piece of level road till you 

 come to the bottom of that steepest hill in this part of the country— Rcdgate 

 Hill. Just after climbing this hill, and in Hunstanton parish, I first noticed 

 a butterfly dash past, and during the next quarter of a mile of road, more par- 

 ticularly on the right hand side, the Painted Ladies kept rising from the road 

 side in scores, flying round us, or settling again on the road or on flowers growing 

 in the hedge side. I drove slowly to have a good look at them ; there were 

 rather pale ones (not worn) and lovely rich coloured ones. They were in splendid 

 condition, and were very alert and shy, not a bit as though they had come ofl" a long 



