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and I am sure, therefore, many mistakes are made. — W, F. de V. Kane, 

 Kingstown. December \2tI1, 1891. 



DiANTHCECIA CARPOPHAGA AND D. CAPSOPHILA. — D. CarpOpkaga is, I 



ihink, not found in Ireland, so far as I have information. One or two 

 rubbed D. capsophila have been shown me as the former, but I had no 

 difficulty in relegating them to the latter species. I hope, shortly, to 

 see the English capsophila, which, I am assured, settle the question as 

 to the real identity of the species. If Mr. Barrett, however, has been 

 convinced of their identity, I must prepare to change my opinion, but 

 up to the present the absolute identity of Continental capsophila with 

 Irish and Manx forms, seems not easily got over. — Id, 



I hold the opinion of Mr. Kane as to D. capsophila and D. carpo- 

 phaga being true species. I have caught and bred many hundreds, I 

 may say thousands, of both ; and have seen no carpophaga so near 

 capsophila as those from our own coast, yet there is not the slightest 

 puzzle in picking these out, by any one really knowing the species. I 

 consider we have many species much more difficult to distinguish than 

 these. — H, Murray, Carnforth. January 2nd, 1892. 



Var. of Vanessa urtic^. — I have a specimen of V. urticcB with all 

 the pale markings of the wings of the purest white, which renders it 

 most conspicuous when compared with the typical forms. — H. Sharp, 

 23, Union Street, Langham Place, London, W. [It would be interest 

 ing to learn from Mr, Sharp whether this peculiar var. of urticce was 

 bred or captured. The pigment in this species is excessively soluble, 

 and a natural variety of this kind possesses great interest, — Ed.] 



Vars. of Bryophila perla and Cuspidia psi, — I have a pale var. 

 of B. perla with the markings scarcely visible and another form of the 

 same species yellow. I have also the pale form of C. psi with the 

 fringes of fore wings and the tip of the abdomen of a bright rosy 

 colour. — Id. [These forms are all noticed in The British NoctucB and 

 their Vars., vol. i. — Ed.]. 



Variety of Lyc^na bellargus. — In the neighbourhood of Seaton 

 (S. Devon), last September, I met with a curious variety of the above. 

 The specimen, a male, is of a pale lavender grey colour, and quite 

 lustreless, and presented a curious contrast while flying to the typical 

 examples, that abounded in the spot where it was taken. — R. M. 

 Prideaux, Clifton, Bristol. [ 1 his is var, pallida, Ent. Rec, vol. I, 

 p. II. — Ed.] 



Black var. of Colias edusa. — The specimen on the upper surface 

 is black, instead of the orange colour of the normal form, with the 

 exception of a small oval yellow spot near the base on the upper margin 

 of hind wings. The colour of the latter is shot with blue. The broad 

 band which is black in the normal form, is in this brownish, which, as 

 seen on the ui)per wings through a lens, shows rather long yellow scales 

 sprinkled over it. All the nervures are black. The middle area of the 

 forewings on the underside is blackish blue, from the base towards the 

 outer margin runs a broad grey blotch. The colour of the wings on the 

 costa towards the tip is olive green. The black spot normally present 

 is in this specimen, only perceptible on both sides by a deeper black. 

 The underside of the hmd wings is olive green, otherwise spotted with 

 the characteristic metallic markings of the Colias genus. The body, 

 antennse, palpi and fringes, like the ordinary form, only instead of 

 yellow, black is more predominant. Size 25 mm. (one forewing $). 



