98 THE entomologist's record. 



Sariation. 



Notes on some varieties of British R[iopalooera. — During 1893, 

 whilst looking- over various collections, I was struck by the general 

 resemblance of some of the varieties of the Tlhopaloccra contained 

 therein to Continental forms. Mr. Barrett (Lep. Brit. Isl., vol. I.) gives 

 many notices of vai'ieties which resemble Continental varieties, and I 

 can quite agree with him in every instance. Appended I give a list of 

 varietal forms from notes made from the examination of sundry 

 collections. 



Pieris napi. — I saw a $ captured in Oxfordshire, which bears a 

 strong resemblance to var. hryoniae, Och., an Alpine form ; it is a little 

 smaller than the average napi, and is, perhaps, not quite so dark as the 

 the typical hryoniae ; the wings are of a decidedly yellowish gi-ound 

 colour with the nervures very dark, and the whole of the wings are 

 suffused with greyish scales, thus giving the insect a very dusky 

 appearance. [Is not this var. sabellicae, Stph. ? — Ed.]. 



EucMoe cardamines. — A very small <? was taken by myself at 

 Kennington, near Oxford, in April, 1893, which measured l^g in. from 

 tip to tip ; other small examples were netted at the same place, so that, 

 apparently, a small-sized brood had been produced there ; a ? taken 

 with the above has the blackish markings at the apex of the fore-wings 

 almost obsolete. I believe that the small var. figured b}^ Mr. Barrett (I.e., 

 pi. 4, fig. 2 b, c) is called turritis, Och. on the Continent. [See p. 97. — Ed.]. 

 Gonepteryx rhamni. — A J taken at Oxford appeared to me at first 

 to be an hermaphrodite ; the fore-wings were yellowish, the spots at 

 their margins being l)right reddish-brown ; the hind- wings were of the 

 usual colour, but the orange spots in their centre were much smaller 

 than the average. 



Chrysopliamis pliloeas. — Mr. Holland took var. schmidtii, Gerli. near 

 Oxford in the autumn of 1893, and other specimens very closely 

 resembling this var. have been met with in various places. I possess 

 two examples from the Cotswold Hills, in which the glossy coppery 

 colour has faded almost to white ; this is a form intermediate between 

 var. schmidtii and the type. I have met with the recurrent variety 

 with the smoky wings at Hawkesbury on the Cotswolds. 



Lycaena hellargus. — I have a gynandromorphous example, which 

 was captured at Ventnor in 1893, in which the left side is that of a J 

 and the right that of a c? . I have only come across stray specimens 

 of this species round Oxford, where it is very rarely seen, but it occurs 

 abundantly on the Cotswolds; on August 11th, 1893, the second brood 

 was already nearly over. 



Lycaena corydon. — A singular var. of this species, approaching in 

 colour the Continental var. apennina, ZelL, was shown to me from 

 Bournemouth ; the light bluish colour has altogether faded to a whitish 

 tint; the markings on the underside, though very indistinct, are 

 nevertheless well defined. 



Nemeohim lucina. — Some specimens taken in Bagley Wood, Oxford, 

 vary from a light brown to a dark brownish black ; in some examples 

 the black transverse bands are very broad, and absorb nearly the wliole 

 of the tawny spots, making the wings appear quite black ; in another 

 larger example the black bands are very thin, being broken in many 



