290 THE entomologist's record. 



That evening we left Faido at 6 o'clock en mute for Olten on our 

 wa}' to Geneva. Our hotel had been the Hotel Suisse, which is 

 conveniently close to the station, very comfortable and not expensive. 

 For those to whom it is of interest I may add that the younp- Proprietor 

 speaks English ; his mother speaks Italian only — and likes to speak 

 it ; it is the ordinary language of the valley from Airolo downwards. 



(To he contbnied). 



Notes oil the Butterflies of Surrey and Sussex in 1911. 



By T. H. L. GKOSVENOK. 



After the very unusual summer that we have experienced this 

 season, a few notes on the emergence dates, and the variation of the 

 butterflies may be of interest. My observations have been entirely 

 confined this year to Surrey and Sussex. 



Pien's hraasicae, — Moderately common but nothing unusual. 



P. rapae. — First seen April lith. A batch of ova from a West- 

 moreland ? laid on May 12th emerged from June 13th to 25th making 

 only 32 days for the complete metamophosis. A third emergence 

 of this species has been very abundant. At the time of writing this 

 there are nearly full fed larva?, so that there may be, if the hot weather 

 continues, a partial fourth emergence. At the Farnecombe (Surrey) 

 Allotment Association's show, prizes were awarded for the greatest 

 number of dead specimens of cabbage whites. The first prize was 

 awarded for 2,974 specimens, the second for 1,726, and the third for 

 700. {ride Press). 



F. iiapi. — First seen May oth, second emergence July 5th, and 

 partial third on August 20th, a few are still coming out but are very 

 scarce. On collecting the first brood assiduously, I found considerable 

 variation. 



(a) Male with female markings. 



(b) Gynandromorph, right wings 3 , left 2 . 



(c) Female with entire failure of black pigment, on upper and 



under sides of wings, the places where the black should have 

 been are yellowish and have a semi-transparent appearance ; 

 this is more apparent than real, as it appears to be fully 

 scaled, the specimen if normal would have been of the 

 ordinary dark spring form with rather heavy markings on 

 the nervures on underside. 

 {<!) Male entirely without apical blotch, the black nervures run 



out to the margin without any increase in width. 

 ((') Male with discal spot large on right primary and small on left. 

 (/■) Male with marking on nervures on underside of secondaries 

 suddenly broadened out, thus forming a narrow green band 

 round the outer margin. 

 Also several with very broad neural markings on underside of 

 secondaries both male and female. 



In the second emergence little variation was noticed, with the 

 exception of a female with large black spot in disc of secondaries,* 

 and several very small examples ; in the third emergence no variation 

 except in size ; a bred ? of this emergence is by far the largest in 



* a.b. post ero mac uluta, Ilev. [Bull. Soc. Lep. Geneve, ii., p. 46, pi. ii.,fig. 11). — G.W. 



