1]^2 [Outober, 



smaller size, thinner legs, wLicla are only indefinitely yellowish neai 

 base of femora and on nearly all hind femora, but above all, the thorax 

 in A. tinicoJor has four sharply marked narrow black lines, while ic 

 A. immacuJata there is a broad central brownish-black line and twc 

 broadish side lines, none of them being very definite. 



t*halacrocera replicaia, L. : although I placed this among the 

 "reputed" British species, I have since seen some specimens taken 

 by Mr. Jenner at Lewes in, I believe, the very same locality as Limno- 

 pJiila suhtincta. As a genus, it differs from Cylindrotoma chiefly by 

 its Tipula-Yike colouring of brownish and greyish, while Cylindrotoma 

 is like Pachyrrhina, yellow and black ; individually it has a peculiar 

 venation, figured by Osten-Sacken in his Monograph of North American 

 TipuUdiS, p. 290. I am obliged to Mr. Jenner for giving me three 

 specimens of this, as well as of LivmopJiiJa suhtincta. 



{To be continued). 



White Butterflies. — In answer to the editoi'ial request in the current No. of 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. for data as to the limits in the South of England within which 

 " Cabbage-Whites " have not been excessively abundant this summer, I may state 

 tliat they have not been at all numerous hereabouts. On the contrary, they may be 

 deemed rather scarce. In the neighbouring market towns, and in some of the 

 villages, I have seen cabbage plants skeletonized ; but elsewhere you may drive for 

 miles without noticing a single butterfly of the kind, and in my own garden the 

 larvae have done scarcely any damage. — A. E. Eaton, Vicarage, Shepton Montague, 

 Castle Cary : September 3rd, 1887. 



[This is a useful piece of negative evidence, and goes strongly to prove that the 

 presumed immigrants did not reach Somersetshire. The " skeletonizing " of cabbage 

 plants in cottage gardens is of such general occurrence, always, as to require no 

 further comment. — Eds.] 



White Butterflies. — You ask for notes from the north on this subject. All 

 three of the Common Whites have been in most unusual numbers here for the last 

 two months. I noticed that some specimens of napi were very much worn antl 

 tattered. I did not examine any other species. In a garden in the heart of the 

 town, where there were a large number of the butterflies on the wing, I examined 

 the cabbages after reading your note. I failed to find a single larva either of raptc 

 or brassiccB. There were plenty of Mamestra brassicce, but none of butterflies. — 

 John E. Eobson, Hartlepool : September, 1887. 



White Butterjlies. — I can corroborate, as far as this district of Roxburghshii-e 

 is concerned, the unusual abundance of the two White Butterflies, Pieris brassica and 

 rapce, during July and August, but more especially during the last fortnight of the 

 latter month. At that time a lawn here covered with the flowers of the autumnal 



