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a greenish-grey lichen. Tlie form is much lighter than thatfroin the Highlands 

 of Scotland, and may be nearer the type. No night work or sngaring was done, 

 as the nights were cold and quite imiavonrable, and scarcely any Noctuae were 

 seen. — W. G. Clutten, Burnley: August 21th, 1915. 



Some of the foregoing records are most interesting. Emmelesia. minorata 

 is quite new to the County of Yorkshire ; and of L. flavicinctata only a few 

 specimens (usually single) had been recorded. The Grassington form (of which 

 Mr. Clutten has very kindly sent me half a dozen), is very pretty and much 

 paler and rather smaller than the Scotch insect. G. ohscurata was previously 

 regarded in the county as almost entirely an East Coast species, and of 

 S. anoniala we had previously only three other Yorkshire localities. — G. T. P. 



The melanic form of Cyniatophora or in England. — Apropos of my note " A 

 melanic form of Cyniatophora or " (Ent. Mo. Mag., July, 1915, p. 220), Mr. Arthur 

 Home, of Aberdeen, has very kindly given me a specimen bi-ed this year, which 

 agrees perfectly with Figure 2 of Dr. Hasebroek's paper on the Hamburg 

 forms, i.e., the form with all the wings, thorax and body black, with the excep- 

 tion of the pale clear white stigmata. Mr. Home informs me that several 

 specimens a year of this striking form have been bi-ed during the past five years 

 from larvae collected from a single aspen tree - the only one in the district — at 

 Sunderland, or about 50 per cent, of the whole number of specimens bred, the 

 other half being of the ordinary type of the species. None of the other three 

 forms described and figured by Hasebroek have been noticed as yet, but it is 

 very satisfactory to know that the melanic form does occur in Britain, and it is 

 reasonable to suppose that when some spot is found where it occurs in greater 

 nvunbers, the other forms will be found to accompany it. — Geo. T. Pobritt, 

 Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddei-sfield : September 6th, 1915. 



A note on the distribution of Danaida plexippus in Australia. — In my remarks 

 on the occurrence of this butterfly on the Australian Continent, I stated (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., Vol. L, p. 192) that at the time of my voyage to the westei-n and 

 north-western coasts some 25 years ago, it had apparently not extended its range 

 to this region. Quite recently I have come across a very interesting paper, 

 entitled " A Scientific Trip to the North Coast of Western Australia," by 

 J Burton Cleland, M.D., and H. M. Giles, F.E.S., read before the Natural History 

 and Science Society of Western Australia, on September 22nd, 1908. These 

 gentlemen were detailed for duty to a camel quarantine camp on the Strelley 

 Eiver, in very sterile country sixty miles from its mouth, and ajiproximately in 

 lat. 21° S., long. 119' E., at the end of July, 1907, and they made considerable 

 collections in Natural History during their stay of several months duration 

 in this remote spot. Enumerating the Lepidoptera observed, the aiithors remark 

 that " Danainae were represented by numbers of the common Danais petilia 

 .... and also to our bitter regret, three or four fine specimens of the scarce 

 lar'ger species D. erippiis, which proved too shy and wary for capture." As there 

 can be, I think, no possible error of identification in the case of this well-known 



