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more common than usual, and the variation remarkable. I have 

 collected this insect for many years, and seen it in thousands, but I 

 have never taken what might be really called a good aberration ; but 

 this season it varied from dark blue or slate colour to almost white, 

 besides bone-coloured specimens (in varying shades) and several banded 

 forms. A great majority of the aberrations (especially the dai'k ones) 

 were cripples, many of tlaem with only two wings, and all the bodies 

 black, which evidently points to some tendency to disease, due pro- 

 bably to mal-nutrition, and possibly may not occur again to the same 

 extent, although odd specimens have, I believe, been previously taken 

 of the dark form. I made one morning visit to the habitat of Epione 

 parnllelaria in July, and found the males flying fairly commonly at the 

 usual time, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., the females, of course, absent. — 

 R. Button, Fishergate, York. October UJi, 1897. 



Peronea permutana on Barnes Common. — In reply to Mr. Tutt's 

 enquiry, this insect was most abundant on Barnes Common, about 

 the year 1851. I took it myself, also Messrs. Shepherd, Grant, and 

 a number of other entomologists, working there about that time ; it 

 then disappeared. It frequented the wild rose, Bosa spinosissima, 

 I think it was. In a few years time I suppose entomologists will begin 

 to doubt the lepidoptera once captured in Hammersmith marshes, 

 now covered with houses. — Samuel Stevens, F.L.S., F.E.S., Loanda, 

 61, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood. Sept. 2Srd, 1897. [Our query was 

 simply based on the fact that, comparatively recently, specimens of an 

 aberration of P. rarie(/atia from this locality, had been exhibited as 

 P. permutana. — Ed.] 



PiERis DAPLiDicE AT DovER.— On the 27th of August last, while my 

 son was taking Poli/ummatiis bellari/iis, he came across a female 

 Bath White {Pieris dapUdice), at Diggles Tower Bank. I have shown 

 this specimen to Mr. Sydney Webb, Dover. — A. Stagey, 34, Clarendon 

 Street, Dover. — Sept. Uli, 1897. [We would suggest to our corre- 

 spondent that the specimen should be exhibited at one of the London 

 Entomological Societies. In our opinion the record of occasional 

 and rare visitors should always be supported by the exhibition of the 

 specimens. — Ed.] 



Sphinx convolvuli at Carlisle. — A specimen of this moth was 

 brought to me to-day, which had been taken by a lady near the town. 

 My friend, Mr. Robert Leighton, found one at rest on a wall in the 

 yard of a large cotton mill, in Carlisle, on August 27th, and I heard 

 of a third specimen being captured by another entomologist. — F. H. 

 Day, 6, Currock Terrace, Carlisle. Aw/mt Slst, 1897. 



Notes from Wyre Forest. — A run with the Woolhope Club, on 

 August 27th, in Wyre Forest, afforded mines of Lithocolletis disten- 

 tella, which appeared to be the most frequent species there on oak. 

 Galleries of NeplwptenjxlwtitiUs were also seen. About the same time, 

 cocoons of Cerura bicuspis were found in the Golden Valley, where 

 Cassida murroea was also taken. — T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.E.S., 

 Redhill. September, 1897. 



Notes from Shere, near Dorking. — A party of the members of the 

 North London Entomological Society visited this district on August 2nd, 

 1897, arriving at Gomshall about 1 p.m., and proceeding at once to 

 Shere. The first insect observed was a male Goneptery.e rhamni, but 

 after passing through the village of Shere, we turned towards the chalk 



