198 THE entomologist's record. 



Variety or Epinephele janira. — On the 28th of July I took a 

 curious variety of this ir.sect. It was a ? . The upper wings are much 

 darker than usual, being almost black, whilst the under wings are nearly 

 white. The upper part of the right underwing is slightly drab in colour, 

 but in the rest of this wing and in the whole of the other underwing 

 the colouri!-:g matter seems to be entirely absent, as if it had all got into 

 the upper wings. I beat this insect out of a hedge, and its appearance 

 when flying was most peculiar, the contrast between the two pairs of 

 wings being so marked. —John Williams Vaughan, Jun., The Skreen, 

 Radnorshire, Erwood, R.S.O. August 22tid, i8gi. 



Varieties of Saturnia pavonia (carpini). — I have this season 

 bred some of the strangest aberrations of this species, reared from 

 larvae taken on the Longmynds, the principal range of hills here. The 

 first to emerge of this species was a very dark <? , which I prop-^se lo 

 call ab. infu?)iaia, owing to the very dark colour of all the wings, this 

 dark shade has so far invaded the whole colouring, that it has nearly 

 expelled the ordinary orange colour from the hind-wings. Of this al>. 

 I obtained two ^s. In a very diminutive pair, ^ and $, a brilliant 

 rosy-crimson has suffused the principal markings ; this colour so far 

 predominating that the bluish part of the crescent of the eye is altogether 

 wanting, and this crescent reduced to a broad rich crimson arc. The 

 usually serrated line is scarcely indented at all, and broadly suffused 

 with crimson. This charming ab. might well be styled rosacea. The 

 larvae oi pavonia also vary a great deal ; some have broad velvety rings 

 around each segment ; in others these are reduced to small rings 

 around each tubercle ; while the tubercles themselves offer a great 

 many gradations. I have now feeding larvre with the following tuber- 

 cular colours ; the type appears to be bright yellow, the next common 

 colour is orange, then pink ; while white, black, and purple are of rarer 

 occurrence. The foodplants appear to be in this neighbourhood, meadow- 

 sweet {SpircccL ulmaria) in the valleys, and the two sorts of heath {Erica 

 tetralix and E. cinerea) on the hills. I find that the pupa often remains 

 two years before yielding the imago. — F. B. Newnham, Church 

 Stretton, Salop. 



Black var. of Melit^a atahlia. — The weather in the "Landes" 

 has been very stormy for some days, much rain and wind breaking 

 down trees, but it is now pleasantly cool. When the sun is out, Melitcza 

 athalia is in swarms, especially on the flowers of heath. Only one black 

 specimen with the red reduced lo a marginal row of marks was seen. — 

 T. A. Chapman. September, 1891. 



LuPEKiNA testacka var. gueneei. On rearranging my L. testacea, 

 I at once recognised a fine specimen of var. gueneei. It was taken, no 

 doubt, by the late T. P. Brockholes, who used to collect on the banks 

 of the Dee. It is identical with the only three taken at Rhyl. Mr. 

 Baxter looked at it to-day, he noted it as distinct from his so-called 

 7iickerlii = var. incerta {British JS[octuc£ and their Varieties, vol. i., 

 p. 140). — J. B. HoDGKiNSON, Ellerslie, Ashton-on-Ribble. July, T891. 

 Gynandrous SPECIMEN OF FiDONiA PiNiARiA. — A friend of mine 

 took a specimen of Fidonia piniaria this season, with the wings on one 

 side the colour of a male and on the other side of the female ; one of 

 the antennae also being pectinated, the other simple. — James Warren, 

 Jun., Capel House, Waliham Cross. 



