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THE ENTOJIOLOGIST S RECORD, 



There are, I find, two rather distinct forms of the females, one with 

 the apical margin black, the other with it pale grey, although some of 

 the specimens which might be classed as pale, are darker than the 

 others. I had strong hopes that these would work out according to 

 size and give me two distinct sections, but I find there is no tendency 

 in that direction. 



The following table will illustrate roughly the variation in size, &c., 

 of the females in my cabinet at the present time : — 



I find, too, on examination of the male sj^ecimens, that the orange 

 blotch varies indefinitely ; the least well-dcvclojied blotches extending 

 only to the discoidal cell, and falling considerably short of the anal angle 

 of the fore-wings. This, however, is followed by slow and almost im- 

 perceptible increase in various specimens, until the blotch is found 

 extending very considerably beyond the external edge of the discoidal 

 cell, and continued downward to and filling up the anal angle, so that 

 the supposed diiferentiation between British and Continental specimens 

 (ante, p. 147), scarcely holds good. It would appear from Mr. Weir's 

 remarks that these variations do not occur in some localities, but they 

 appear to vary between their extreme limits in many others. — J. W. 

 TuTT. June 2Sth, 1894. 



NoTKS ON THE BREEDING OF CyCLOPIDES PALiEMON, AcRONYCTA PSI 



AND Pacuetka LEUcoPHiEA. — I liavc bred this sj^ring three specimens of 

 Lepidoptera that have been of interest to me. (1). I bred a specimen 

 of Cyclopides palaemon from a larva kindly sent me last autumn by the 

 Eev. C. R. N. Burrows. For pupation, the larva suspended itself exactly 

 like a Fapilio, except that the girth was loose, instead of being fixed by 

 sinking into the chitin of the dorsum. The larva jDOssesses an " anal 

 comb," essentially, no doubt, the same appendage as that described by 

 Hofmann (Ent. Annual, 1873, p. 61) as existing in certain Sciaph'Ia 

 larvae. I have seen it in other Skijjpers and also in Colias. It would 

 be interesting to know in what other Kuopalocera it occurs. I find a 

 figure of it in a species of Colias in Scudder (Butterflies of New Enyland, 



&c.) but cannot discover any reference to it in the text. 2. I 



have bred a specimen of Aeronycta (Cuspidia) jjsi that had been two 

 years in pupa, i.e. it was a larva in 1892 and emerged in May, 1894. 

 Though I have reared hundreds both of this species and of C. tridens, 



