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variety. The weather could not have done it as it was so well pro- 

 tected " {in litt.). 



The specimen is, I should say, without doubt, a perfectly natural 

 variety, showing a great tendency towards almost perfect Albinism. 

 At present the scales are but little injured, and it is such a variety as 

 one might expect to find in this species, and its colour is undoubtedly 

 due to the spread of the white colour found along the inner margin of the 

 wing in typical specimens and the suppression of the dark markings. 

 Surely some of our Scotch lepidopterists will soon tell us something 

 more about such a striking form. — J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



Variation in Miana strigilis. — I have taken numbers of this 

 species at Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, and with one excep- 

 tion they have all been small and of the suffused variety. The one excep- 

 tion was large and beautifully marbled with white. Other lepidopterists 

 round Birmingham have had slightly different experiencies, but all get 

 the black form {^-Ethiops, Haw.) much more frequently. — C. J. Wain- 

 WRiGHT, Handsworth, Birmingham. 



The dark brown melanic form {latriinciila, Haw.) of Miana strigilis 

 is not infrequent in the Clevedon (Somerset) district ; but those speci- 

 mens I have noticed have frequently been diminutive in size ; the 

 largest and most beautiful specimens being marbled with black and 

 white markings. In Carmarthenshire (on the coast) I found, two years 

 ago, a form^ with a beautiful rosy tinge, the general colour of the upper 

 wings being deep brownish, with beautiful rosy markings, especially 

 noticeable by lamplight. This form was very frequent ; in fact, I 

 scarcely saw any other variety. These moths were not M. literosa. — 

 T. B. Jefferys, New King Street, Bath. 



American Varieties of British Species. — As a matter of fact, 

 American literature is far more difficult to get out here than in London, 

 but so far I have come across notices of the following American 

 forms : — 



1. Papilio machaon var. Aliaska, Scud. Proc. Boston Soc. of N. H., 



1869, p. 45 (Oregon, Alaska, etc.). 



2. Pieris iiapi var. hryonuc, Ochs. Alaska. (This you know as European 



of course). 



3. P. napi var. /in Ida, Edw. A small dusky form allied to bryonice. 



Alaska. (See Papilio, vol. i. pi. 2, fig. 5.). 



4. P. napi subsp. venosa, Scud, (summer {oxitvs = pallida. Scud, and 



castoria, Reak.). 

 Subsp. venosa var. flava, Edw. 

 ,, oleracea-hiemalis, Harr. 



„ var. borealis, Grote. 



„ v^x. frigida, Scud. 



„ var. virginiensis, Edw. 



Summer form acadica, Edw. 



„ „ oleracca-cestiva, Harr. 



(These forms are fully and most interestingly dealt with by 

 W. H. Edwards, in Papilio, vol. i., June 1881, pp. 83-99, 

 and pis. 2 and 3). 



5. P. rapczv^x. marginalis. Scud., Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., 1861, p. 182. 



^ Proliably var. arata, Esp. — J.W.T. 



