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colour they approach var. sictihi, hut the yellow band is normal and 

 shows none of the specialisation that characterises the latter form. I 

 need not add that Calliniorjiha hera was abundant everywhere on the 

 EupatoriiiDi flowers, and LithoHta (/riseola very frequent in similar 

 places. Undoubtedly the best ground in the immediate vicinity of 

 Torre is that on the right bank of the river. Cross the bridge (about 

 five minutes' walk almost directly behind the hotel), and work through 

 such open ground as can be found, and one can expect fair results. 

 Here it is that yrptis Iticilla lives, but one must come sooner. A worn 

 one in the field to the right, directly after crossing the bridge, was the 

 only one I saw that the storms of July Blst and August 1st had left, 

 but no doubt it is common here a month earlier. In the same field, 

 too, I took Lycoena alcon, whilst Melitara phocbe and Birnt/ns selene, 

 second brood, were very abundant there, and J/, athalia two quite 

 worn out and one quite fresh, the latter almost suggesting a partial 

 second brood but for its worn companions, Brenthis dia, one just 

 emerged, also evidently the forerunner of a second brood, whilst worn 

 Coenonijmpha arcania were very common. The southern fulvous form 

 of Parar;ie eijeria occurs here not uncommonly. The abundance of 

 Dn/as papliia and var. calcsina is worthy of remark, as also is that of 

 a fine large form of Erebia actliiops. One little coiner not more than 

 ten yards square, was covered with marjoram and Kupatoriitiu, and 

 the flowers of these seethed with insect life — perhaps a couple of dozen D. 

 paphia and var. valesina, several A. var. rh'inlo.ca, three or four dozens 

 of Calliiiioypha liera, and doable this number of Erebia lu-thiopfi, in 

 the pink of condition, all kept busily on the move by an army of 

 Epint'phele ianira, E. titlionns, Melanani'ia (jalatca, ('hri/sojilumus jtJilaeas 

 and Poli/oiiDiiatns icariis was something to be remembered, but the 

 greatest disturbance occurred when a busy ('(diets ediisa got among them, 

 and was apparently more startled than they. But these spots have to 

 be found, one might work at Torre for a week and conclude there was 

 nothing to be got there, if he simply waited for the insects to come to 

 him instead of seeking them. Other species that occurred on the vari- 

 ous journeys were Anthrocera ocJiHenheiineri and A. Imiicerae, both nearly 

 over, A. carniuUca and A. transalpina , common locally, Hyntomia plieyea, 

 occasional specimens here there and everywhere, larvje of Maerut/tylacia 

 ndn, crawling about the roads, Acijitilia jientadactyla, I'tcruphorus 

 ))iunodacti/lus, Eviaturya aUnnaria, Macaria notata, Tiiiiandra a)iiataria, 

 Acidalia ornata, Lithosia lurideola, L. pi/t/maeola, almost typical form, 

 Ebidca croccalis, E. verbascalis, E)i)tijc/iia octomaculalis, Howoeosoma 

 sinuella, Craiubus pcrlellns, Penthina sdlaua, whilst, in one place, 

 I'orthetria dispar, sparingly distributed elsewhere, was exceedingly 

 abundant, and here, among others, I captured a specimen flying in the 

 usual mad male manner in the afternoon sunshine, which possessed 

 many white female patches scattered over the wing, the unusual colour- 

 ing making it most conspicuous. 



Two new aberrations of Noctua rubi. 



By S. WALKER, F.E.S. 



1. Anterior wings rich chrome-yellow ; some specimens with an orange tint on 

 the costa ; the stigma and transverse lines rather indistinct; the quadrate spot 

 pale rosy, fringes yellow. Thorax and body yellow. Posterior wings greyish- 

 yellow =ab.^a t; a, n. ab. 



