12 THE kmtomologist's RECOHD. 



without any further feeding or attention, I bred 82 moths. Of these, 

 10 inclined to the purple-banded form, but were not so strongly 

 marked ; 19 were pale with dull markings, 82 pale with very faint 

 markings (approaching var. y/(av'.s7r;;.s), 21 were of the latter aberration. 

 The ground colour was pale yellow, and there were none with red- 

 dish marks among them. — A. E. Cannon, Mannofield, near Aberdeen. 

 Man/,, 1H9(>. 



The differences exhibited by the specimens of A', fidrann, in my 

 series, run into one another gradually, and it is impossible to draw 

 hard and fast lines. The purple band runs into a reddish-ochreous 

 one with faint purple tinge only ; the well-marked band into the 

 faintly marked, and the faintly marked into ven'. flaiy.sn'u.s, and even 

 in these the outlines of stigmata, transverse lines and dots can be 

 traced. By the way, does ab. //(//v.sroj.s breed true? Most of my 

 specimens have a primrose-yellow^ ground colour ; I have none with 

 orange yellow, but three are of a somewhat dusky deeper yellow mot 

 primrose at all) a yellow with a tinge of brown in it. These are from 

 Buckerell. I have only bred three ab. jiarcsccns from catkins collected 

 here during 4 years — 4 in my series are from Wimbledon. Has it 

 been noticed that these are bred from one sort of sallow more than 

 from another ? I seem to remember having heard this suggested. 

 The long-leaved sallows {Sali.r cujn-aia and S. riunra) are the com- 

 monest here, the round-leaved (.S'. aiirita /) rarer. — W. S. Riding, 

 M.D., F.E.S., Buckerell Lodge, near Honiton. Manh, 1896. 



I have taken very few specimens in this neighbourhood. The only 

 three from near Weymouth in my series are rather pale yellow with 

 chocolate-coloured markings. — N. M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.8., 

 Monte Video, near Weymouth. March, 189G. 



Of a large number of A', fnlrai/ii which I saw on the sugar last 

 autumn in Sutfolk, I took only 8 of the pale-lemon form = ab. 

 fkircsn'iis and one of the parallel orange-yellow form = ab. auiantia, 

 whilst here at Rainham I took only 2 of the ab. Jiariscms. — (Rev.) 

 C. R. N. Burrows, Rainham, Essex. Man/i, 189G. 



@-URRENT NOTES. 



There appears to be little doubt that such hybernation as Coliafi 

 hi/ali' is capable of, takes place in the larval stage. ^Ir. H. Williams 

 records that of three larvae which attempted to hybernate (indoors), 

 and w^hich had, on December 10th, 1892, been quiescent thirty days — 

 one died at the end of December, one on February 22nd, 1898 ; the 

 third commenced feeding on March 17th, 1898, and continued to do 

 so until April 8th, when it attempted to moult, but died on April 

 18th without doing so. 



Mr. Mitchell records Papilia iikkIkkdi (12 examples) and Kucldoe 

 cardcaiiUu'x (8 examples) passing two winters in the pupal state. The 

 same gentleman adds that at Starcross, ( 'alUiiuirplia Iwra was " more 

 easily obtained in bright sunshine, one specimen, not apparently dis- 

 turbed," being captured as it was " flying over clover blossoms quite 

 naturally, like a butterfly." 



The Rev. 0. Pickard Cambridge records the capture of 102 

 specimens of Tinea nitjn'jiunctrlla on one window of his house (Blox- 



