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cannot find in any other specimen in my possession. The larva of this 

 specimen was taken at Winchester on the 30th of July, 1889, feeding 

 on groundsel, and the imago emerged on the 13th of June last. — 

 Henry A. Hill, 132 Haverstock Hill, London, N.W. July c^t/i, 1890. 



Variety of Arctia caia. — I bred to-day (July 2nd) a variety of 

 A. caia, which is unfortunately malformed and utterly unfit for the 

 cabinet. The primaries are of a rich uniform brown without a trace of 

 white ; secondaries dark brown around the margins, and still darker in 

 the median area of the wings, the scarlet of the ordinary caia is entirely 

 wanting. The larva was not obtained until after hybernation and was 

 then fed on dock. — J. Collins, Warrington. Juiy, 1S90. 



Apamea gemina var. remissa. — I have captured two specimens of 

 this variety here at bramble flowers. In 1888 three specimens of this 

 variety were taken at sugar by local collectors, but I heard of no captures 

 last year. — J. Collins, Warrington, /niy, 1890. 



Xylophasia monoglypha var. infuscata. — I captured a very dark 

 s])ecimen of this variety— almost as black as var. jiigra — on the Deal 

 sandhills, at sugar, on the 12th inst. — J. AV. Tutt, July, 1890. 



Variety of Hipparchia janira. — I once captured a specimen of 

 this species, with two white spots in the large black one near the tip 

 of the wing, instead of one as is usually the case. The fulvous colour 

 of the patch, in which these spots were situated, was also spread more 

 than is usual in janira, indeed it covered a large portion of the wing, 

 thus resembling H. tithouus. The hind wings were dark brown with a 

 lighter transverse band. The underside of both fore and hind wings 

 was the normal colouring oi Janira. I was inclined to think it was a 

 hybrid between y^7;//m and tithouus, but probably it was only a variety 

 of the former. — Albert H. Waters, Willoughby House, Alill Road, 

 Cambridge. July, 1890. 



ijjOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes of the Season (Lepidoptera). — Cannock Chase. — In April 

 Brtphos parthejuas occurred abundantly in Cannock Chase, but was 

 rather difficult to capture owing to its preference for the tops of tall 

 birch trees. Thccla rubi was very abundant in the same locality early 

 in May, but may be taken more readily towards evening when resting 

 on the heather. Cidaria populata also occurs freely on the Chase in 

 July and August, flying among bracken. — E. P. Wright, Stone, Staffs. 

 June i$th, 1890. 



York. — Larvae of many species are very plentiful here this year. I 

 managed to get about a hundred Taniocampa populeti and a fair 

 number of Tethea subtusa. Many of the oaks and sallows about here 

 are divested of their leaves by Hyhei-tiia defoliaria. — S. Walker, York. 

 June i2)^h, 1890. 



Warrington. — At the end of May I collected upwards of fifty larvae 

 of Agrotis agathnia by sweeping heather at nightfall, but quite one-half 

 were " ichneumoned." Early in June I went for a second supply, this 

 time only bringing home those that were nearly full-grown. I find the 

 large ones less likely to be " stung," as the parasite appears to leave the 

 host when the latter is about two-thirds grown. Numbers have died ofi". 



