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the afternoon sunshine ; Phloeodes crenana, bred August 21st, 1909, 

 from larvfe tightly rolling leaves of alder {teste E. Meyrick); Stigmonota 

 roseticolana, June 21st, 1910, Dicroraiiipha consortana, August 14th, 



1908, and Argyrnlepia cnicann, July 3rd, 1905, all captured on the 

 wing, evening ; Nemophora iiietaxella, taken June 18th, 1902, at dusk ; 

 AnfyreKthia arceuthina, beaten May 31st, 1906, from juniper; Graci- 

 laria populetondii, bred September 27th, 1905, from pupa in leaf of 

 birch ; Oniix hetulae, May 17th, 1909, and O. torqiiilella, May 24th, 



1909, bred respectively from larvfe on birch and sloe ; Coleophora 

 murinipennella, taken May 27th, 1905, at rest on grass stem ; (7. 

 ■orhitella, bred June 8th, 1910, from larva on birch ; Tischeria dodonaea, 

 beaten May 19th, 1903, from oak ; Nepticida litteella, June 12th, 1910, 

 .and N. plai/ieoteUa, July 29th, 1908, bred from mixed leaves of birch 

 and sloe ; Laverna rascJikiella, taken July 15th, 1909, at rest on 

 Epilohiion cuui HKti folium ; L. decorella, June 17th, 1910, and L. sub- 

 biatrii/ella, August 24th, 1905, both captured flying, evening. — W. B. 

 Davis, 3, Rosebank Villas, Churchfield Road, Stroud, Glos. Jidy Brd. 



Albino of Loweia alciphron, var. gordius. — At Varzo, near the 

 southern entrance to the Simplon Tunnel, I caught, on June 21st, an 

 albino specimen of Lonwia alciphron, var. (jordins, flying in company 

 with several others of the ordinary form. The following is a descrip- 

 tion: J'jSSmm. Upperside, both wings brilliant metallic lemon-yellow, 

 Talack spots, marks and shading as in type. Underside forewing 

 bright lemon-yellow, black spots ; hindvving grey with yellow ante- 

 marginal band; black spots in white rings. — C. B. Wilkinson (Lt.- 

 •CoL), Hotel Berisal. 



Occurrence (?) of L. gueneei.^ — A query. ^ — In a paper read before 

 the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club by Mr. 

 Nelson M. Richardson, and published in their Proceed inys, vol. xi., 

 p. 46, 1890, I find the following remark with reference to Luperina 

 testacea : " I saw a beautiful, very distinctly, and delicately marked 

 variet}^ {yneiieei) of this species taken by Colonel Partridge this year." 

 Now that our L. yncneei has been proved as distinct from L. testacea 

 :and is identified with the continental L. nickerlii, one would like to 

 know to which species the form referred to above belongs. Is it still 

 in the possession of Colonel Partridge? And if so, can it be compared 

 with* undoubted English L. nickerlii var. yueneei ! Have either 

 Mr. Eustace Bankes or Mr. Nelson Richardson any further know- 

 ledge of this or other specimens taken in the neighbourhood of 

 Portland ?— H.J.T. 



The Abundance of Pieris rapae, etc — For the last ten days or 

 so there has been excessive abundance of the "whites " everywhere. 

 They are reported from the fields and lanes around London, in all the 

 open spaces, dodging about the roads, even penetrating to the 

 •embankment, and the busy streets of the City. One has been 

 seen investigating the Tube station at Piccadilly. They appear to be 

 mostly V. rapae, although I have seen a few P. hrassicae, and an 

 -occasional P. napi, one of the last in my own garden at New Cross, 

 where I obtained a pupa of the species last year. Dr. Chapman has 

 remarked to me that the specimens of /'. rapae struck him as being 

 generally of small size. Those I have particularly noted in my 

 garden have all been small. Mr. W. J. Kaye writes me that at Dieppe 

 xind neighbourhood there were "clouds " of 7'. braasicae and P. rajiae, 



