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almost imagine himself fishing, rather than looking for " Burnets ; ' 

 however, I was very lucky in finding a yellow $ i)i cop. with a 

 barred ? , from which I also succeeded in obtaining ova, but unfor- 

 tunately all the larv« are since dead. Like Mr. Abbott's Z. filipetiduhv, 

 my Z. irifolii is of a very beautiful lemon yellow, showing no trace 

 whatever of red. I gathered a large number of cocoons, and was mucli 

 pleased in breeding another pure yellow variety, but unfortunately it 

 is somewhat a cripple, although quite good enough to keep. In 

 addition to the above two varieties, I found on the next day, viz.., the 

 17th, two others which may fairly be said to be intermediate between 

 the yellow form and the type, the first has the spots and underwings of 

 a deep orange tinged with red, but still very different from the brilliant 

 crimson of the type ; the second has the spots on the upper wing of 

 the normal coloration, but the underwings of the deep orange red as in 

 the first. Yet another curious form is one in which the top basal spot 

 on the left wing is yellow, all the rest typical. I also found a number 

 of the blotched varieties, although by no means as commonly as Mr. 

 Abbott, the type being much the more prevalent. — W. Bond Smith, 

 Potton. September, 1891. [I took this yellow variety some years ago 

 in North Kent, and named it lutescens in the Young Naturalist. — Ed.] 



Varieties of Polia chi in the Leeds district. — -During the last 

 three weeks I have taken a large number of this insect at rest on stone 

 walls, never in any other position. I have taken only three good 

 examples of the var. olivacea, but have fresh specimens of every shade 

 connecting it with the type. A local collector told me that one in 

 twelve was the usual proportion ; with me it has been about one in 

 twenty-five. As to the form suffiisa, noted by Mr. Robson, it seems 

 to be almost as common as the type, and, as we find in the case of 

 olivacea, intermediate specimens occur. Mr. Carrington informed me 

 that " black " chi were taken in a certain wood near Leeds ; so far, 

 however, I have not met with this variety, though I possess some very 

 dark suffusa. In var. stiffusa the under-wings are smoky ; in var. 

 olivacea they are white, with at most a small blackish blotch on the 

 margin. — -W. Mansbridge, Luther Place, Horsforth, near Leeds. 



Variety of Coremia ferrugata.— When collecting at Edlington 

 Wood, near Doncaster, one day this spring, I captured a specimen of 

 C. jerriigata, in which the costal half of the normal purplish bar in the 

 right wing is obliterated, its place being occupied by ferruginous, 

 which thus forms a broad dash along the costal margin, the left wing 

 being perfectly normal. The specimen is quite fresh and in good 

 condition. — Id, 



Thyatira batis (type). — With reference to the note, Entom. Record, 

 vol. ii., p. 108, I may say that two or three years ago I bred a Thyatira 

 batis with the spots a delicate light brown, like that described by 

 Mr. Alderson. It was the last to emerge of a few pupae which I had, 

 and is without the faintest trace of the rosy colour of the ordinary 

 form. This gives it somewhat of a " washed-out " appearance, and to 

 my taste detracts considerably from its beauty. — Joseph Anderson, 

 JuN., Chichester. 



Variety of the Larva of Smerinthus tili/e. — I had a rather 

 curious variety of this larva, found on August 25th, which, instead of 

 the normal green colour, was a dingy violet shade. I am not aware 



