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Variety of Colias edusa. — I was fortunate in securing a remark- 

 able female variety of Colias edusa on August 31st, on the cliifs at Milton, 

 Hants. The black band at the border of the wings is divided by a 

 series of light yellow spots, forming almost a com^ilete stripe. I 

 enclose you a drawing of the same. — Ciias. E. Mason, 21, George 

 Street, Cheetham Hill. September 11th, 1893. [A figure of the variety 

 shows the pale spots in the dark border of the fore-wings rather larger 

 than is usually the case, and united to form a band. We have seen 

 others, however, equally strongly marked. — Ed.]. 



Variety op Colias edusa. — Keferring to Plate C in the February 

 number of the Entomologist^ s Record (vars. of Colias edusa), I have to 

 record the capture, on August 17th, 1892, of what I consider an 

 interesting variety of C. edusa. It had remained unobserved in my 

 store boxes amongst a number of other specimens of that species taken 

 at the same time, but on turning them over to-day, I noticed that the 

 insect in question was decidedly not what I had taken it to be, viz., 

 a male specimen, but undoubtedly a female ; but with the exception 

 of a faint spot on left fore wing, there is an entire absence of the usual 

 female markings, and the inner edges of the black margin appear 

 hardly so clearly defined as in tlie typical form. This insect appears 

 to be quite as distinct a varietal form as those figured on the plate 

 referred to, and I send you the description of it, in case you think it 

 worthy of notice in the Record : I should also be pleased to show the 

 insect to any entomologist wlio cares to see it. I may add that the 

 locality in which it was taken was the South Downs, Hants, in a 

 clover field. — C. Coles, 61, Barrington Koad, Brixton, S.W. August 

 11th, 1893. [This is not at all an uncommon form of the female. In a 

 large exhibit made before the Ent. Society of London last autumn, we 

 noticed two similar females included among the males. Most of the 

 older collectors have similar specimens in their series, and there were 

 several mentioned in our columns last year. — Ed.] 



BURRENT NOTES. 



Our last "Current Note " (ante, p. 218) was rendered ridiculous by 

 a printer's error, the word "pupa" being omitted after "butterfly." 

 The movement of all British butterfly pupje known to us is lateral, 

 what we wish to learn is whether an anterior and posterior movement 

 ever occurs in any. 



Mr. P. Wykman, Scientific Library, 1, Rue de I'Arbre, Brussels, 

 jiroposes bringing out a re-issue of Hiibner's Savnnlung Exotischer 

 Schmetterlinge. The issue will be confined to 75 copies, and the cost 

 6s. 8d. per part. Another magazine on general natural history (closely 

 resembling the British Naturalist in scope), under the name of The 

 Naturalist's Journal, is being puldished by Messrs. Elliot Stock. Sub- 

 scription, 2s. 6d. annually. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, deploring 

 the fact that all entomological matter that ought to be printed cannot 

 find its way into the magazines and transactions of societies, intends 

 establishing a magazine for the description of the material in his col- 

 lection at Tring. Annual subscription. One Guinea. 



Lord Walsingham, in the E. M. M., gives another note on Conchylis 

 (Eiiposcilia) implicitana. We must own that just at present we are in a 



