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male albino of the rare and extremely local Dichrorampha senectana, G-n. The 

 antennae, palpi, head, thorax and abdomen are creamy-white, the antennae being 

 ringed with fuscous. The fore-wings are glossy creamy-white, inclining to pale 

 grey towards the costa and termen, thickly irrorated for the most part with pale 

 ochreous scales ; the ordinary pale costal geminations, as well as all the usual 

 metallic-leaden bars and the transverse lines, together with the indications of the 

 dorsal blotch, are clear shining white; the terminal black dots are only just traceable ; 

 the cilia are white, with the base narrowly, and the apical portion broadly, fuscous. 

 The hind-wings are glossy whitish ; the cilia white, with the basal and apical portions 

 pale fuscous. The under-sides of tlie wings, the legs, and other parts of the insect 

 are all proportionately pale. It is by far the most extreme form that I have ever 

 seen of any species of Dichrorampha. — Etjstacb E. Bankbs, The Rectory, Corfu 

 Castle : November ISth, 1896. 



[A somewhat similar aberration of another species of this genus, labelled 

 " England, Knaggs," stood in Zeller's series of plumbagana, Tr. It is, however, cer- 

 tainly not that species, the shape of the termen being quite different, and it must bo 

 an aberration of either petiverella, L., or qucBstionana, Z. It is very palo, shining, 

 whitish-ochreous, almost cream-coloured, and the hind-wings are still paler, the head 

 and thorax are perhaps slightly darker than the fore- wings, and the abdomen is pale 

 wliitish-cinereous. The dorsal blotch on the fore-wings is pale buff, and the two 

 ante-apical metallic costal streaks of the typical form ai-e very indistinctly indicated 

 by a darkening of the ground-colour, three very pale cinereous spots represent the 

 normal dark black terminal spots, the usual black spots preceding the dorsal blotch 

 being still less distinct, and the other markings are not apparent ; the cilia are 

 shining white. 



In considering this specimen to be a form of qucBslionana rather than of peti- 

 verella, I am guided by the shape of the dorsal blotch and by the direction and 

 position of the ante-apical costal streaks, but I have long been doubtful to which 

 species it should be referred. The specimen is a J , and is now in Lord Walsing- 

 ham's collection. — John Hartley Dubeant]. 



Caradrina ambigua, Fb., in the Isle of Purbeck. — I am pleased to be able to 

 record the occurrence in the Isle of Purbeck, S. E. Dorset, of the very local Cara- 

 drina ambigua, Fb., which has already been found both in Hampshire (Isle of Wight) 

 to the east and in Devonshire to the west of this county. A beautiful specimen, 

 captured near Swanage in the summer of 1892, has recently been received for iden- 

 tification from Mr. Percy M. Bright, and another, taken in the same neighbourhood 

 about the end of August of the present year, was discovered by me when looking 

 through Mr. Frederick Whitehead's captures last month. I am not aware that this 

 species has been met with in Cornwall as yet, though it very probably exists there, 

 but it has certainly occurred, and in a few localities pretty freely, in every other 

 county on the south coast of England, and seems on this side of the channel to be 

 especially attaclied to the actual coast line. — Id. : December 1th, 1896. 



Zeiigophora fiavicollis, Marsh, at Colchester. — While beating for larvae I was 

 agreeably surprised to find a specimen of this rare beetle in my umbrella, and by 



