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nioi-e like that of a $ in size, and showed what looked like 

 egg matter between the segments, while the anal extremity was 

 devoid of the tuft of hair usually present in the <? . In addition, 

 on the forewings, was a yellow splash from the base of the wing 

 half way to the discoidal spot. It was from a larva taken at 

 Christchurch, Hants, in June. I also bred another specimen 

 from a Deal larva with these splashes, and a specimen from an East- 

 bourne larva with the band on the hindwing almost obsolete. — C. W. 

 CoLTHRUP, 120, Barry Road, East Dalwich, S.E. Scptonhci- 20th, 

 1902. 



Aberration of Tkyph.t:na fimbria. — Last April I took a number of 

 Trijphaena jimhria larvce at Streatham. At the end of June they 

 emei'ged, and among them was an aberration which I think worthy of 

 notice. The forewings are those of the common light mahogany 

 aberration, but the hindwings have an oceilated spot near the anal 

 angle, and well separated from the black border. The right hindwing 

 has a small hole surrounded with black, and the left one has a trans- 

 parent " windoAV " surrounded in the same manner and containing a 

 very minute hole. The black rings are about i inch in external dia- 

 meter. The underside exhibits the same spots as the upper, but not 

 (juite so well defined. I may add that the wings are very slightly 

 crippled. — C. I. Paton, Ormley, Glen Eldon Road, Streatham, S.W. 

 September lith, 1902. 



Epixephele tithonus ab. — On August 3rd, at Burgess Hill, 

 Sussex, a striking aberration of Kpinejihelc tithonus was taken. 

 The insect was a male, well marked, in full strength, in all the dark 

 parts of the wings, but instead of the usual brilliant red-brown for the 

 ground colour of the wings it was a light butter-coloured yellow. — J. 

 C. DoLLMAN, Hove House, Newton Grove, Bedford Park. September 

 2oth, 1902. 



:iS^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Late season for Lepidoptera in Perthshire. — As late as September 

 6th I obtained ova of Dasi/dia nbfnscata, capturing a female on that 

 date. I should like to draw attention to the fact that I have 

 endeavoured to transplant this species to other than its original haunts 

 by obtaining ova and placing them in various localities where the same 

 food-plants grow, and where the environment is apparently almost 

 identical, but the attempt has failed upon every occasion. I have 

 also taken larvife about half fed and put down, but these also failed. 

 Purple bell-heather {Frica tetrali.r) is undoubtedly its food-plant, 

 although nearly all authorities give other plants. It will be observed 

 from the date of capture, that it, like everything else, is about a 

 month late. My list gives the usual time of appearance as being 

 about August 12th. Xoctna sobrina is equally late. I took it at 

 sugar upon August 15th, whereas in other years the dates have 

 been from the third week in June to the second week in July. 

 Ceriira furcula, Kpunda nif/ra, Xotodonta dnniu'darius, &c., were 

 emerging the first week in August, whilst larva; of Thevetra porcclli(s, 

 Charidea niiibra and Antidea sinuata were taken in their first 

 stadia upon August 25th, the whole of them fully a month behind their 

 usual time, and no doubt due to the sunless summer which we have 



