12 THE ENTOMOLOGIST 8 RECORD. 



tion was eliminated even from the offspring of these larvae themselves 

 (I only reared one brood), by the forcing process to which the parents 

 were subjected ; inasmuch, however, as similar conclusions are pointed 

 to by other results, the suggestion is, perhaps, not inadmissible. 



i did not get a figure of either of these four larvaj, the nearest 

 approach to them, and it was very close in appearance, is represented 

 in Plate I., fi"-. 2. The larva there figured was hybernating in this 

 form in its fith skin, and was one of the varieties in the hybernating 

 forms that occurred in later broods but were unrepresented in the first, 

 in which all hybernators assumed fuligiaosa plumage in the 5th skin, 

 and then hybernated. 



CTo be contimied.) 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES & OBSERVATIONS. 



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Pupa of Melitaea biaturna. — Tlie pu]3a of M. matiirna is very 

 different from that of M. cinxia. It is larger and longer in proportion, 

 and, in place of being greyish-brown, is of a creamy-white, spotted with 

 intense black, the spots on the thorax and wing cases being especially 

 large ; in some specimens the abdomen is more or less brownish. I 

 have often reared this species from the beautiful larva. — F. B. Newnham. 

 December Gth, 1893. 



Sariation. 



Aberrations of Various Butterflies. — Coenonymplia pamphilus. — 



I caught this summer a very strange ab. of C. pampkUm, in which there 



is a row of six ocelli down the centre of the underside of the hind-wings. 



The pupils of these ocelli are silvery-white, the rings being light 



brown. Vanessa c-alhum. — I bred, among man}'^ others this season, a 



small 3 c-albuvi, in which what is usually the (7-like mark, which 



gives the trivial name to the species, is reduced to a mere straight line. 



I propose to call this ab. iota-album, partly because the name of I-album 



is already employed by Esper to denote an ab. of the European V. egea, 



Cram, and partly because my specimen has no dot. V. atalanta. — I, 



this autumn, reared two specimens of V. atalanta, in which the outer 



row of white spots, usually five in number, exhibits a sixth, this being 



placed within the red band of the upper wings. Lijccena icarus ab. 



icarinus, Scriba. — This aberration, which is devoid of the basal dots on 



the underside of the upper wings, occurs rather commonly here in a 



rough pasture on the S.W. slope of the Ragleth ; I have caught many 



specimens of both sexes. This aberration is generally scarce, at least 



on the Continent. L. icarus varies much in size, my smallest measures 



13/16 of an inch, being much smaller tlian ray smallest minima, while 



my largest expands to 1 9/16 inch. These are both females. Thissuiall 



form, which appears about July and is very local, might almost be a 



distinct species, approaching to the continental L. esehari, Hubn. 



Another aberration is found here, in which the upper side is of a bright 



blue without any trace of purple. This I take to be the L. dorylas of 



the older British authors, but it is very distinct from the Alpine hylas 



