202 THE entomologist's record. 



extremities of the fore wings, which are sometimes said to be found in 

 varieties of fhamni. — James Warren, Jun., Capel House, Waltham 

 Cross. 



Protective resemblance in Iodis vernaria larv^. — Referring 

 to Mr. Hewett's note (««/<?, p. 138) on /. vernaria larvae, what strikes 

 me as interesting (from my own observations) is that they hatch green, 

 turn brown in the autumn, hybernate that colour, retain it in the spring, 

 until, with their last skin, they re-assume the bright green colour of the 

 newly-hatched larvag, which they retain in the pupal stage. The ova 

 are also most interesting, flat, cylindrical, and deposited one upon 

 another in little steeples of about ten in each, looking, under a glass, 

 like so many cheeses piled one upon another. — W. Farren, Cam- 

 bridge. July, 1 89 1. 



Mr. Farren is quite right about Iodis vernaria. I kept a female to 

 lay, and the eggs are, or were, most extraordinary, and they hatched 

 green. — G. M. A. Hewett, Winchester. 



^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes of the Season. — Cambridge. — In addition to my captures 

 noted in the Record (p. 134), I have taken a nice set of Gelcchia 

 nceviferella, Ditula hartmanniana, Antithesia salicella, and many odd 

 things, macro and micro ; notably four specimens one evening of 

 Xanthosetia zagana yzx. fei'rugana on a dry bank in the Fen, no other 

 specimens of the species being seen, typical or otherwise. They are 

 very striking, their brown colour being so different to the yellow of the 

 type. Bryophila impar seems to have been scarce this year. I only 

 took ten specimens, although I worked hard for them nearly every 

 morning for over three weeks. Three were found on July 30th, the 

 rest singly, with the exception of two on August 17th, and Messrs. Tutt 

 and Porritt, who were with me on that day took one each. I captured 

 the last one two days later. Nonagria neurica has been conspicuous by its 

 absence, partly owing to the weather having been too bad for me to go 

 after it regularly. The only s[)ecimens I know to have been taken this 

 year were two taken by Mr. Jones of this town last week. — W. Farren, 

 Fern House, Union Road, Cambridge. August, 1891. 



The Island of Eigg. — On the loth of July, two or three hours spent 

 in collecting on this island (situate on the west coast of Scotland) 

 resulted in the capture of the following eight species of insects : 

 Vanessa iirticce, Satyriis semelc, drnonympha pamphilus, Abraxas 

 grossulariata, Anaitis plagiafa, Eubolia limiiata, Camptogranima 

 bilineata, and Cidaria immanata. As the climate is extremely humid, 



I hoped to find some melanic varieties, but the immanata alone exhibits 

 much tendency in this direction. The two specimens of Vanessa urticie 

 which I took are unusually large and well marked, but, on the other 

 hand, the A. grossulariata are small and pale, measuring in fact but 

 1^ in. across the wings, while the same species taken here expands 



I I in., and Newman's figure is nearly 2 inches. These insects were 

 abundant, sitting on the fronds of the bracken — what the larva finds 

 there to feed upon I do not know. On the mainland — in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Arisaig — Erebia cetliiops swarmed ; I took one handsome 



