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(a character which I have also often noticed in specimens of T. Coqueherti). Mr. 

 Dalglish lias sent me Scottish insects coloured quite according to Cameron's descrip- 

 tion of tristis, and representing, I have little doubt, that species. But all Mr. 

 Thornley's specimens differ from these as stated above, and the females at least show 

 a rather greater uniformity of coloration than is usual in this very variable genus. 



Mr. Cameron describes further T. caliginosa, Steph., as very like 

 tristis, but with the pronotum, the basal segment of the abdomen, 

 and the trochanters, black ; in his fourth volume, however, he seems 

 to agree with Konow iu sinking this as a variety of cordata, Pourcr. 

 (now identified by Konow with litfernta, Geoffr.). In any case cali- 

 fjhiosn cannot be identical with Thornleyi, as the former species has 

 the 3rd antennal joint " much longer than the 4th," while in Thornleyi 

 ^ it is scarcely as long, and in Thornleyi ? only a little longer. 



Another species much resembling the present insect is T. sprefa, 

 Lep., Steph. (= ohscura, Knw., olim.) ; Herr Konow, however, points 

 out that Thornleyi is smaller, the head much narrower, the vertex 

 without a central sulcature, the second recurrent nervure not inter- 

 stitial, the dorsal surface of the abdomen d^) differently sculptured, 

 and the 8th dorsal segment in the ^ differently impressed, having two 

 foveas separated by a sharp carina, which are not membranaceous, and 

 coloured like the rest of the segment. 



Brunswick, Woking : 



January/, 1900. 



Nynsia zonaria in the Hebrides. — Nyasia zonaria {cf.ante, p. 9) is abundant on 

 the " macliars " (sandy pastures) along the western coasts of the Outer Hebrides. 

 The larvae have occasionally a curious habit of climbing to the top of the shoots of 

 Galium verum there, and swaying about as if on purpose to attract attention. They 

 seem to feed by preference on Lotus. 



I took Anarta melanopa and Crambus fnrcatellus this last season on one of the 

 highest hills in Harris. I had never found either species in the Hebrides before. — 

 Aethcr F. GrRiFFiTH, 59, Montpellier Eoad, Brighton : January Uh, 1900. 



Argynnis Niobe, var. Eris, taJcen in England. — As I entertain no doubt that 

 the specimen of this rare butterfly, which I discovered last autumn in the collection 

 of the Rev. A. P. Waller at Bridgwater, was captured in this country, I think it 

 ought to be recorded. Unfortunately, both the locality and date are uncertain. It 

 was taken by Mr. Waller's brother about 1879, either in a wood near Bury St. 

 Edmunds, or in Monk's Wood, Hunts. Mr. Waller thinks he took it at Bury St. 

 Edmunds ; he recollects taking fritillaries at that time in both localities, and that 

 he took one that had no silver spots on the under- side ; he supposed it to be a 

 variety of A. EapJirosyne, but took no steps to identify it. He never collected any- 



