84 the entomologist's record. 



to a thoroughly representative lot of grossulariata, might do worse than 

 leave half a row in their cabinets for this ab. lutect, and another half 

 row for ab. flavofasciata, which is also subject to much minor variation, 

 and is a very beautiful form of the species. Its variation lies in the 

 width and coloration of the central transverse yellow band crossing the 

 forewings, in the occasional intensification of the black markings on 

 the forewings, and in the number of small black spots, and the 

 development of the faint yellow line on the hindwings. I have not 

 yet heard of a male flavofasciata occurring in a state of nature, and 

 should be pleased to hear from any of your readers who possesses a 

 specimen. 



One of the most extraordinary grossulariata in my cabinet was 

 reared from a Lancashire larva, by a friend of mine, in 1904, and 

 generously presented by him to myself. This aberration — chalcobares, 

 n. ab. — is a very dark specimen, the only white on it being that part 

 of the forewing which lies between the exterior of the central fascia and 

 the subterminal row of black spots, while the area between the base 

 of the forewings and the interior of the central fascia, is thickly laden 

 with bronze. The hindwings are as black as in any nigrosparsata, and 

 have the central horizontal row of black spots slightly flushed with 

 bronze. The specimen is a male of large size. Those who have 

 reared my favourite species in very large numbers will know how 

 extremely rare pale varieties are in comparison with those of darker 

 hue, so that I am here tempted to describe, and name lactea- 

 sparsa, n. ab., what I deem the finest pale form I have ever reared. It 

 came from a wild Hazeleigh larva, and emerged on July 22nd, 1904. 

 It is a small but perfectly developed female, and, so far as markings 

 go, is of the flavofasciata type, only that the hindwings have the 

 horizontal band of black central spots well developed ; but the 

 peculiarity is that the forewings are densely dusted with blackish- 

 brown. For a pale form to be thus suffused, is, in my experience, 

 altogether unparalleled. The dusting on the hindw r ings is so faint as 

 to be barely perceptible. In conclusion, to those about to rear this 

 species, just a few words concerning the foodplant. In towns, Euonymus 

 japonicus is much affected by the larvae, which also attack goose- 

 berry and currant bushes, whilst on walls they often do much damage 

 to the foliage of apricot and plum trees. Out in the country black- 

 thorn is indisputably the favourite pabulum, but the wild spindle, 

 sallow of species, and the common buckthorn, are also favoured. I my- 

 self have not found very many larva?, as do some collectors, on the wild 

 spindle, but have sometimes collected them very freely from sallow 

 bushes. My plan is always to feed wild larva? on the plant they were 

 taken from, and in the case of those reared from the egg, to adhere to 

 one particular foodplant. I believe gooseberry and red-currant produce 

 the finest imagines, but I am quite convinced that the foodplant has 

 no influence whatever on the coloration of the imago. 



The genus Bembidium, Lat., in Cumberland. 



By F. H. DAY, F.E.S. 



Although the northern counties of England have their own special 

 coleoptera, in point of number of species they cannot compare with 

 counties enjoying a more southerly position. Some few genera, 



