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would probably have run to 1,500 pages instead of nearly 500, and I 

 had to cut down. — J.W.T.] 



Aberrations of Diurni. — The following aberrations have been 

 taken during the last few years in this neighbourhood : — (1) Li/caena 

 arion. — A very small specimen, 1^% inches in expanse, taken with the 

 ordinary forms on the Cotswold Hills, a few years since, towards the 

 middle of June, after a dry spring, which probably stunted its food- 

 plant. (2) Ai/lais nrticac. — I have a specimen remarkable in having a 

 silvery spot on the costa of the fore-wings beneath, and occupying the 

 centre of the third black costal blotch (the one nearest the base). It was 

 bred from a larva fed up with a large number of others, which produced 

 only the ordinary type. (3) Sj/rirltt/n(.s malvac ab. taraa. — A specimen 

 with the central area of the wing marked with a distinct band of 

 white blotches. The hind-wings with only a minute central white 

 spot, and faint traces of subterminal band, {i) Enudia /ii/peranthu-s 

 ab. caeca.— k specimen with only a series of white points on the 

 underside of the hind-wings, and three ill-defined ocellated spots on 

 the underside of the fore-wings. It, therefore, agrees with the ab. 

 caeca on the hind-wings, hut not on the fore-wings. — J. Merrin, 

 Gloucester. 



Aberratkjns of noctuiu moths from Navestock, Essex. — I have 

 taken the following aberrations here this season : Xjilopltada hepatica 

 ab. characterea, one only ; A;ir<itis exclainatinnu ab. picea, rather 

 scarce, four or five only ; XactKa .rant/KJi/rapJia ab. cohaesa, very 

 abundant, far more so than the type ; Anchocelis putacina ab. seiina, 

 scarce, six only taken ; Miselia o.njacanthae ab. capucina, dark, and 

 very abundant, quite outnumbering the type; Cidaria russata ab. 

 j)erfuscata, one only. — (Rev.) W. Claxton, Navestock Vicarage, 

 Romford. 



Aberrations of Abraxas sylvata (ulmata). — I have, I believe, a 

 form of this species rather different from any captured by Mr. Button. 

 It is a male of the light form, that has the fore-wings only splashed 

 with the leaden-blue colour, the suffusion occupying the centre of the 

 wing. I consider it a very striking form. — S. Walker, Edderclifle, 

 Queen Anne's Road, York. 



:]^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Note ©n Plastenis subtusa. — In the first week in August I took 

 Plastenis .subtw^a, somewhat freely, near Wisbech, both at sugar and 

 at rest, among the ivy on five large poplars. One always expects to 

 meet with this species (and P. retitsa) more readily in the larval stage 

 earlier in the year. Of course, one takes it occasionally at sugar, but 

 not freely. — J. A. Butterfield, B.Sc, 35, Wrottesley Road, Plum- 

 stead, S.E. 



SiREx JuvENCus IN BosTALL WooDs. — Last autumn, I found a 

 female Sire.i- jurencm, in Bostall W^oods, with its ovipositor firmly 

 fixed in a larch tree, evidently in the act of ovipositing. — Ibid. 



Chcerocampa celerio in Shropshire. — Mr. G. Potts, of Broseley, 

 Salop, caught a very fine $ C. celerio, while it was hovering over some 

 fuchsias in his garden, at dusk, last Monday (Oat. 18th). Mr. Potts, 

 who most generously gives away his entomological captures, was good 

 enough to present the insect to aie, and I had the pleasure of setting 



