304 THE entomologist's record. 



April 29th, well out and common. P. daplidire : pretty common, but 

 could not find any of the var. heUidicf. Aut/iocharis belia : only five 

 set, but believe it was pretty common. I confused this species at the 

 time with E. cardavunes 5 . A. tar/is var. bcUezina : what looks like 

 a very diminutive A. belia is probably referable to this species. I 

 took it on May 7th, and thought at the time that I had got bcUidicc. 

 E. I'UpJienoidi's : a nice series, including two females. Found it 

 commonest in the Costabelle Woods, on May 1st, after which it 

 became scarcer. E. cardamine^ : not so common, nearly all females. 

 Lencnphosia sinapis : common, the shading of the underside of the hind- 

 wings does not appear any darker than in that of my British or Swiss 

 specimens, but the tone is decidedly ydloiirr. Colias i>dusa : seen 

 several times. (Tcnu'ptertix clenpatra : not very common, and all worn. 

 (This was a great disappointment to me on my first visit to the south). 



NYMPHALiDyE : lAtnenitis camilJa : Fairly common throughout the 

 district, and in beautiful condition (fond of settling on foliage). Ewjonia 

 pjoli/Moriis : one or two seen. Euvanc^m antiopa'. only one specimen 

 seen, April 29th, and that a mere wreck. Melitaca didi/nm : rather 

 common, and not more " fiery " than my Swiss examples. M. cin.ria : 

 commoner than the last, getting rather over. (I have not met with 

 this species in Switzerland). M. phocbc: one taken on April 29th. 

 M. parthenie (/) : two specimens, large and fine. BrentJiis euphrost/nc : 

 Several. Melananjia syUiiia : first seen on May 2nd, afterwards 

 generally common. Pararf/e ine<iavra and ('(leria : both fairly common, 

 but Avorn. E. janira var. hispidla : males pretty frequent, but 

 difficult to catch on the steep wooded hill-sides — one female, May 8th. 

 E. jiasiji/iac : a fine series, first seen above Hyeres, on May 4th, 

 afterwards occurring generally. C. jiaiiiji/iilufi : one noticed on May 5th. 



Among the very fewMACRO-HETERocERA noticed were the following: — 

 Zyiiaena larandulac : Pretty common on May 1st, booming about from 

 flower to flower, on the summit of one of the hills behind Costabelle, 

 and almost insensible to the efiects of the cyanide bottle. Acontia 

 lucida and liatuom, Erastria munerica : single specimens. Metoptria 

 muno(jraiiuna : rather common ; woods and quarries. 



Melanic and intermediate aberrations of Abraxas sylvata (ulmata) 



in Yorlishire. 



By WILLIAM HEWETT. 

 During the present season melanic forms of A. sijlvata (ulmata) 

 have been by no means rare in one particular locality in Yorkshire, 

 and I have secured a number of these, as well as many intermediate 

 aberrations, as the result of four visits paid to the district this season. 

 Messrs. Maddison, Head, Walker and Dutton, have also obtained these 

 aberrations in some numbers. None of them have been obtained from 

 larvae collected in the neighbourhood of York, as stated by one of 

 your contemporaries, but all were secured in the imago state, occurring 

 amongst the typical form which, in this particular locality, is found 

 in profusion. I kept a number of melanic females (principally cripples) 

 for eggs, which several deposited. The majority of these were fertile. 

 Dr. Riding very kindly undertook to rear them, and, in a letter dated 

 August 24th, says : — " I am glad to be able to write that almost all 

 the Abraxas sylvata {ulmata) have gone down ; there have been three or 



