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green, with a black dash on the summit of each lobe. Legs purplish 

 black. First pair of prolegs purple ; anal prolegs green. Var. 3. Pale 

 green, the sides broadly shaded with hazel-brown, forming an irregular 

 series of pale green dorsal and lateral blotches. Head and legs black, 

 face green. Both pairs of prolegs tinged with dark purplish brown. 

 Belly purplish or hazel-brown with a paler or greenish central band. 

 All the varieties graduate into each other. — C. Fenn. March 2nd, 1891. 



DcANTHCECiA CARPOPHAGA A^fD D. CAPSOPHiLA. — I think this latter 

 was claimed as a species in 1868, bred specimens were given me by 

 Dr. Warren Wright in 1869, and the insect challenged as a species the 

 same year. Mr. Gregson entered very warmly into the matter, and his 

 series now before me is so thoroughly graduated thit [ will defy any- 

 one to point out the border-line between one and the other. I bred 

 specimens identical with the darkest Manx capsophila from sweet- 

 william heads out of my garden last year. Where we find one species 

 of lepidoptera, corresponding with the larva and imago of another 

 so-called species, I am content to consider them identical. — Sydney 

 Webb, Dover. February, 189 1. 



EuPiTHECiA ALBiPUNCTATA var. ANCELiCATA. — -Last September I 

 took a fair quantity of larvee of this species at Bishop's Wood, which 

 are now commg out. A large percentage of them are the var. angelicafa. 

 It is strange that there are no intermediate forms ; the two are quite 

 distinct, and bad the larv« not been carefully examined, I should be 

 inclined to think that it is a separate species, but no difference was 

 noticed, except the usual variation in colouring. — George Jackson, 

 115, Nunnery Lane, York. 



I am now breeding Eiipithecia albipundata var. angelicata from larvae 

 collected in Askham bog. So far, about one-third are of the variety. 

 The old idea of its having been confined to Bishop's Wood has therefore 

 proved to be incorrect. The variety is figured in the Entomologist, vol. 

 xi., August, 1878. — G. Denxis, ti. Tower Street, York. May ^th, 1891. 

 [The figure in the Entomologist, taken from a specimen bred by Mr. 

 Prest, who obtained the larvje at Bishop's Wood, Selby, is not at all a 

 satisfactory one, and until bred by Mr. Dennis from Askham, was sup- 

 posed by the York collectors to be restricted to Bishop's Wood. A 

 parallel black variety of ^. virgaureata is, I believe, bred at Burton-on- 

 Trent, and similar melanic vars. of this latter species are occasionally 

 taken by the Paisley collectors. — Ed.] 



Erratum. — Page 7, line n from bottom, for Xanthia aiirago w^r. 

 fuscata, read ''^Xanthia aiirago va.x.fucata." 



JOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Early Spring Notes. — Wishech. — In company with a young friend 

 —Mr. F. Glenny— I left Wisbech early on Easter Monday, for a day's 

 pupae digging just over the boundary of the adjoining county of 

 Norfolk. "We had not gone far before we found we had got a tough 

 job before us, and one which would require a little enthusiasm to 

 help us through : the wind blowing a gale from the north, with oc- 



