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tion. After I had arrived at the spot I began beating the plant into my umbrella, 

 and not two minutes elapsed before I had secured some half-a-dozen specimens of 

 the Aphalara, and so I continued taking them for some time, when I desisted, not 

 wishing to exterminate the species. I was further intent on securing the larvae or 

 njmph-form, but, observing that some numbers were pairing in my collecting bottle, 

 I concluded that this was now an impossibility, so I lay down and examined the 

 plants for the ova. After searching for some little time I noticed that one or 

 two leaves had a naiTow longitudinal fold on the margin, tunied outwardly ; one of 

 these I pulled and opened very carefully, when I discovered the eggs laid in a single 

 row along the centre of the fold. In form they are elongate-oval, narrowed at each 

 end, and standing perpendicularly about 5 of a Paris line from each other with 

 one end fixed to the leaf. In colour they are starch-white and easily distinguished. 

 John Scott, Lee : 1st June, 1882. 



HyJecoetus dermestoides, <Sfc., on Cannock Chase. — During a recent visit to Can- 

 nock Chase I beat from birch trees the following (amongst many other) species of 

 Coleoptera : — Ilylecatus dermestoides, Cryptocephalus coryli, C. punctiger, and C. 

 fulcratus. From alders on some boggy ground at the northern side of the Chase, 

 I obtained a large number of specimens of Lina csnea remarkable for their brilliant 

 golden-coppery colour. — W. Gr. Blatch, 214, Grreen Lane, Smallheath, Birming- 

 liam : June 19tk, 1882. 



Pachetra leucophcea at Box Hill. — On the 22nd ult., I visited Box Hill (in 

 company with Messrs. Church), and took a P. leucophfBa, ? , at rest on the trunk of 

 a whitethorn ; it deposited ova which duly hatched, and the larvse are feeding well 

 on Poa annua. — Ben J. Aethue Bowee, Eltham Eoad, Lee, S.E. : '[Sth June, 1882. 



Varieties of Zygcena filipendidcE. — The variety or form of Z. fiUpendidcB alluded 

 to by Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, in the June number of the Ent. Mo. Mag., in which the 

 sixth spot is only faintly traceable, is by no means uncommon. The late Mr. W. P. 

 Weston had a splendid series from Tilgate Porest, many of them bred, and I have 

 frequently taken a similar variety at Folkestone. The Folkestone specimens, how- 

 ever, not only appear early in June before the majority oi Jilipendula are out of the 

 larval state, but are smaller and have the border of the hind-wings broader than the 

 Tilgate specimens, especially in the ? , and I have been somewhat inclined to regard 

 them as hybrids between trifolii and JUij^endulce, and should, therefore, have expected 

 to find that trifolii occasionally occurs on the summit of the clifPs to which Mr. 

 BaiTCtt alludes, but, either from its early appearance or from the summit not being 

 80 much worked, had been overlooked. 



It was a curious circumstance that Mr. Weston's specimens were from a part of 

 the Forest where for several years I had taken the large marsh form of trifolii, but 

 never seen fl ipendulce in any of its stages. 



The variety in which the sixth spot is entirely absent is far scarcer ; and as, so 

 far as my experience goes, it is confined to $ specimens, it would be interesting to 

 know whether the specimen referred to by Mr. Barrett is a ? or not. 



In the specimens I have seen the absent spot is always to be found on the under- 

 side, so, beyond the question of hybridism, no doubt as to identity can exist. — C. A. 

 Beiggs, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields : 2nd June, 1882. 



