338 THE entomologist's record. 



bit nervous, shut up his lamp, and listened. Sugaring alone, in out- 

 of-the-way places, is always eerie work. Well, nothing happened until, 

 reflecting that he was doing no wrong, he turned on the lantern and 

 started off once more to examine the patches. But no sooner did he 

 show the light than there was a tremendous scuffling of feet and cries 

 of " There 'e is ! " " There 'e goes again ! " Then he closed his lamp, 

 and a voice exclaimed " 'e's gone ! " Not liking the aspect of affairs, 

 he stood still behind a tree for a few minutes, and then — made his 

 Avay home quietly, without a light. Next morning he was met by the 

 groom with " Well, Master Will, you Avas very nigh getting shot last 

 night. A lot of them has been across the Squab Meadows to shoot the 

 Will-o'-the-wisp, but, when they got there, they remembered they had 

 not got a 'crooked sixpence' to shoot him with. So they watched 

 you while they sent into the town for one!" Thus it appears that 

 Mr. Buckell owed his life possibly to the survival of an ancient super- 

 stition into the nineteenth century. So ran the story, and many a 

 time when out alone on lonely places have I remembered it, shut up 

 my lamp, and gone home Avithout a light. — (Rev.) C. R. N. Burrows, 

 Mucking Vicarage, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. Xoveniher 9tJi, 1905. 



PoLYGONiA c-ALBUM IN EppiNG FoREST. — I have a uote in my diary 

 to the effect that I took a specimen of this butterfly at Wanstead, on 

 October 18th, 1871. I have a very cloudy recollection of the event, 

 just sufficient to assure me that the entry is, so far as the species is 

 concerned, correct. I have also an indistinct idea that I remember 

 several captures of this insect in Epping Forest about the same time, 

 and fancy that T have been told of this somewhat curious occurrence 

 by old collectors. However, I can And no printed record. My series 

 of the E)ito))wlni/ist goes back to 1873. It would, perhaps, be well to 

 save the record from oblivion, if it is, as I suppose, not in print.- — 

 Ibid. 



W' A R I A T I N . 



New forms of Rumia luteolata. — I have taken one, and have seen 

 several other specimens of a new form of N. luteolata. In it, the normal 

 yellow of the wings is replaced by pure white, and the usual white 

 scales of the discal scar show up like dashes of silver. This capture 

 was made during the first week in June, 1905. For this insect the 

 name ab. lacticolor is suggested. Since makmg the above note I have 

 made enquiries, and I find that intermediate forms of a very pale 

 primrose colour occur near Birtley, some five miles west of the locality 

 in which the above occur. The name ab. intermedia will suffice to 

 describe these. — J. W. H. Harrison, B.Sc, The Avenue, Birtley R.S.O., 

 Durham. October Ind, 1905. 



Aberrations of Ccenonympha pamphilus, Linn., at Wimbledon 

 Common. — (1) A (^ specimen of C. pamphilus, having a distinct row of 

 six ocellated spots parallel to the margin on the underside of each 

 hindwing, thus, in this respect, agreeing with ab. ocellata, Tutt. The 

 upperside is of the usual bright tawny colour, the apical spot on the 

 forewings being large and dark. On the hind wings the three lowest 

 ocellated spots are replaced by blackish-brown spots (not ocellated) on 

 the uppersides, the centre one of these three being very distinct, the top 

 one fairly so, while the bottom one is almost indistinguishable from 



