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in my case) spot developed on the upper side of both forewings. 

 Mr. Tutt [British Butterjiies, p. 229) mentions one other similar case 

 as having been recorded. — H. Mousley, F.E.S., Burnfoofc, Buxton. 

 [M. Jachontov (Bei'. Buss, hint., iii., p. 38) describes a new aberration 

 of Pieris brassicac — ab. nii/rnnotata — which occurs with the type, but 

 in the spring brood only, about Nijni Novgorod. He diagnoses it as 

 " alls anterioribus supra in disco puncto nigro notatis." — Ed.] 



Epinephele janira ab. addenda, n. ab. — For the rare form of the 

 above species, in which the number of the spots on the upper- and under- 

 side of the forewings exceed the two ocellated ones, I propose the above 

 varietal name. In August, 1901, I bred a female with the underside 

 of the left forewing normal, whilst that of the right had four spots 

 developed, the two ocellated ones being very small indeed, and the 

 remaining two merely dots and blind. After breeding this aberration I 

 examined the undersides of some that I had taken in 1895 (and set to 

 show the uppersides), and amongst them I found a fine example with 

 four spots on each wing corresponding exactly with the upperside of 

 the ab. excessa of tithonus figured in Barrett's Brit. Butts., pi. xxxiv., 

 fig. 1. — Ibid. 



Ekebia .ethiops ab. stricta, n. ab., and ab. pallidior, n. ab. — 

 Referring to my article on the above species in the Knt. Bcconl, 1902, 

 pp. 18-20, I find I omitted the varietal names of ab. stricta which I 

 had given to the underside aberration of the male described on line 21, 

 page 20, in which the bands on the fore- and hindwings are almost 

 obsolete, and the spots very suiall indeed ; and also ab. j)aUi(li'ir for 

 the male with pale grey underside, and bands lighter (not "nigher" as 

 in article) than in the type, and more resembling those of the females. 

 — Ibid. 



:i3^0TES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARVAE, &c. 



Eggs of Lepidoptera. — Calaiiiia liitosa (laid October 18th, 1902; 

 examined by lamp-light December 15th, 1902). — A single egg is laid 

 near the tip of a blade of ribbon-grass, within the curled portion that 

 makes the spiky termination of the leaf ; the egg is attached to the leaf 

 by some gummy-looking cement. A row of seven eggs are laid on 

 another leaf, which has, apparently, become uncurled since laying; 

 most of these touch each other, and are laid with the micropylar axis 

 set obliquely to the plane of leaf ; the remainder are irregular in posi- 

 tion. The colour is of a pale dull creamy tint. About 1mm. in diameter, 

 and between -Smm. and •9mm. in height, the shape roughly resemb- 

 ling that of a Tangerine orange, but much misshapen and faceted, 

 as though laid soft, and ready to take the shape of any space into 

 which it is forced. The cell-pattern surface network forms slight 

 longitudinal ribbing on sides, owing to the strengthening of cell walls 

 on two sides and the weakening of the remaining ones. The pattern 

 is reduced on base to a slight denting of the surface ; on the top 

 the dents are somewhat smaller, and more sharply cut at sides. It 

 is not possible to get a clear view of the micropyle itself, but the cells 

 appear to be reduced in size, and there is a slight depression. — A. W. 

 Bacot, F.E.S., 154, Lower Clapton Road, N.E. 



Erratum. — Page 121, lines 39 and 49, for " Mr. St. Quentin " roiul " Mr. St. 

 Quiiitin." 



