B42 THE entomologist's reoord. 



form with the one basal spot is found in Polyommatm coryhn, P. 

 bdlarfiiift, and P. icanis (ab. iphis), but I bad never come across, or 

 heard of its occurring in either Puli/oiiiinatiis astrarclie or Pleheim ae(jnn 

 until I captured the above specimen. — H. Mousley, F.E.S., Burnfoot, 

 Buxton. 



Aberration of Argynnis aglaia. — On July 21st, 1897, I took a very 

 fine ? aberration of Ar/iyiwis aijlaia, in which the anterior wings are 

 black, shot with dark green, a row of fulvous spots on disc, sub- 

 marginal spots very faint, posterior wings normal. What is the 

 scientific name of tbis form? None of my books define it ! — F. B. 

 Newnham, 1\I.A., Church Stretton. October 27t/i, 1902. 



Aberration of Brenthis euphrosyne. — Early in June, 1901,1 caught 

 here a strange aberration of what, from the colour, I take to be Brenthis 

 eitphroxj/ne, in which the posterior wings are almost black above, 

 as in var. Jinijal, but the base of these same wings beneath are light 

 yellow, hind margins orange-red ; marginal silver spots reach almost 

 the centre of wings. It is very much Hke the aberration of B. selene 

 given in Newman. I should very much like to know its name ! — Ibid. 



Ltjperina testacea ab. unca at Buckerell. — The season hitherto 

 has been very unproductive in my immediate neighbourhood, as it 

 seems to have been elsewhere. I sugared for Caljiuinia pj/ralina five 

 or six times in July in the orchard in which I usually take it, and not 

 a single moth of any description was attracted. The light trap, too, 

 was lighted, and was barren in the morning, although a few common 

 insects have come occasionally to light in the bed-rooms. One of these 

 was a dark Luperina testacea ab. tinea. I have taken the insect abun- 

 dantly in Devon and Cornwall, but never, hitherto, this form, they 

 have always been the light putty-coloured or ochreous-brown forms. 

 Does this aberration commonly occur in the south '? I know it is taken 

 freely in the north. — W. S. Kiding. M.D., Buckerell. Sej)teinber ''23rd, 

 1902. 



Variation of Nemeophila plantaginis. — On June 11th, while 

 visiting in the neighbourhood of Helvellyn, I came across a number 

 of nearly fuUfed larvas of ^V. plantaifinh, and took between 40 and 50. 

 I fed them up on dock, Galium, and other low plants. They spun up 

 from June 15th-30th, and commenced emerging on June 3rd. From 

 the 3rd to 8th 20 came out, all being females ; one male on the 7th, 

 and four more on the 9th came next, thence to the 17th the sexes 

 appeared in equal numbers. Taken altogether there would be fully two- 

 thirds females. The males varied very little, one dwarf specimen being 

 the only aberration noticed. The females, on the other hand, varied 

 considerably ; they were mostly rather dark on the upper wings, and 

 the markings also varied in arrangement, while the lower wings ranged 

 from light yellow through orange to a rather deep red : three t^pecimens 

 were of the last form. Most of the bodies were of a bright red, a few 

 inclined to orange, while three specimens bad light yellow markings 

 on their bodies. — \V. G. Clutten. 124, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 

 November 2'[ St. 1202. 



:iiiOTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARYiE, &c. 



Observations on the earlier life-history of Trochilium crab- 

 RONiFORMis. — A female of Trochilium crabronifurmiif was observed ovi- 



