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paler costa this year. ',2j ab. (x/uca. — Common, but not so abundant 

 as are intermediates between this and ab. rufa. (3) ab. mfa. — Very 

 common, rarely with a pale orbicular. (4) ab. hnimwa. — Very 

 common, and merging gradually into ab. innuba. Some are very 

 unicolorous, others have the reniform filled with bluish black. 

 Many have very pale orbiculars. (5) ab. innuba. — Not very common, 

 varies in the same manner as ab. brumwa. (6) Of the pale costa forms, 

 I have a series of all ground colours from ab. cchrea to ab. innuba, 

 and one beautiful ab. (liftiHcta-racriih'srens. — H. H. Corbett, ivI.R.C.S., 

 19, Hallgate, Doncaster. Aiu/mt, 1896. 



Aberration of Bupalus piniarius. — On June 16th, whilst hunting 

 for Emi/dia cribrn»i, in which I was moderately successful, I took a 

 curious aberration of Ji. piuiarins ^ . I was struck by its warm 

 coloration as it Hew past, and therefore took it. The right fore-wing 

 and both hind-wings are normal, except that the usual ground-colour 

 is replaced by a warmer tint, something like that of a male Fidonia 

 atoinaria. The left fore-wing is of a warm brown, like the usual tint 

 of B. piniarius 2 , but with a strong black streak from near the outer 

 margin to the middle of the wing, and other slighter dark dashes. — J. 

 C. MoBERLY, M.A., F.E.S., 9, Rockstone Place, Southampton. 



The black variety of the pupa of Parakge meg.era. — I reared 

 some fifteen I', yncnaera to get the black pupa, and was pleased to get two 

 of them. I think the environment has something to do with the 

 matter, but I must experiment carefully again, and will then let you 

 know the result. There seem to be no intermediate forms. — J. J. 

 Wolfe, Skibbereen, co. Cork. 



Aberrations of Odonestis potatoria. — A number of the larvaj 

 of this species were collected this season at Angmering (Sussex), and 

 the imagines resulting show a great range of variation. Quite a large 

 proportion of females have the coloration of the male, and they form a 

 very striking series. — Alfred T. Mitchell, Gunnersbury, W. 

 September, 1896. 



Saturnia pavonia (carpini) hermaphrodite and dark aberration. 

 — I had the good fortune to breed this interesting example last 

 May. I had a large number of pupse, and this specimen was the 

 first to emerge. The parents were twice inbred, resulting from 

 larvae taken at Wicken in 1893. The left primary is that of a male, 

 but the secondary on the same side has only about one-fifth of the 

 area with male coloration, just reaching the eye-like markings. On 

 the right side, both wings have the normal female coloration. 

 Antennae left and right, male and female respectively. Only one 

 other specimen was at all remarkable, Hz., a dark female approaching 

 a melanic form. — A. T. Mitchell, 5, Clayton Terrace, Gunnersbury, 

 W. Septemher, 1896. 



:ii^OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARV^, &c. 



Egg of Trochilium crabroniforme (bembeci forme). — The egg is 

 oval, laid fiat on the underside of a sallow leaf. The colour, rich red- 

 brown (almost mahogany-brown) ; length to breadth as about 3 : 2. 

 Depressed on top, and at one of narrow ends (micropyle ?). Egg under 

 f lens ajjpears quite smooth — under i, minutely pitted. The eggs 

 appear to be generally laid in couples near midrib of leaf, but variable 



