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bears evidence of having been sent to Mr. Wailes by the late Mr. J. C. Dale, for it 

 bears a label " meridionalis " in the handwriting of the latter. It has passed, I 

 believe, into the collection of Dr. Mason of Burton-on-Trent. — E. McLachlan, 

 Lewisham : lUh May, 1884. 



Varieties of Colias Edusa at Pit/mouth. — About seven years ago, when col- 

 lecting one day in a. quarry a few miles from here, I secured six specimens of Colias 

 Edusa well worthy of a place in the cabinet. Four were fine specimens of the 

 variety Helice ; one other female was a variety intermediate between Helice and 

 the normal form, being of a pale ochreous colour ; and the remaining specimen, the 

 greatest prize of all, was a male, in which the usual orange colour was replaced by a 

 clear bright lemon -yellow — a most lovely variety. Considering that not more than 

 a dozen Edusa were flying about the quarry, the proportion of interesting variations 

 was satisfactorily large. — Gr. C. Bigneil, 7, Clarence Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth : 

 May, 1884. 



[Mr. Bignell's note reminds me that in September, 1861, 1 captured a solitary 

 Colias Edusa at Plymouth, a $ in which the ordinary pale spots in the black 

 borders of the wings are totally obliterated. Amongst hosts of varieties of this 

 insect I have never seen a precise parallel to this example. — R. McL.] 



Varieties of Ennomos angnlaria and Ceropacha ridens. — A larva found some 

 years ago feeding on elm at Exeter, and reared on the same, produced a female 

 Ennomos angnlaria, of which the fore- and hind- wings are entirely of a dark umber- 

 brown, while the thorax is of the usual yellowish colour. 



Another beautiful variety reared here is Ceropacha ridens, of which I obtained 

 two specimens, having the central band of the fore-wings normal, but the whole of 

 the basal and apical areas of a whitish-green, without any trace of markings or 

 cloudings, except four dark streaks on the nervures before the apex, and the usual 

 spots on the cilia. — Id. 



Note on the food j)la)it of Gelechia snbocellea. — In Matley Bog in the New 

 Forest, and by the sides of the small streams which trickle down the cliffs near 

 Totland Bay in the Isle of Wight, the larva of this species occurs very commonly in 

 the flower-whorls of a Mentha, which I believe to be aquatica. On mentioning this 

 to Mr. Stainton he told me that, on the Continent, it also feeds on Thymus vulgaris. 

 — W. H. B. Fletcher, 6, The Steyne, Worthing : May 14th, 1884. 



Bryophila impar, n. sp., distinct from B. glandifera. — In consequence of the 

 confusion which appears to be made between the mealy-looking variety of B. glandi- 

 fera, which occurs along with the typical form on the coast, and which is sold by the 

 dealers as var. Par, and the Bryophila which we take at Cambridge, it will be as 

 well to give the latter, which already has a local habitation, a distinctive name as 

 well. Mr. Stainton, who has seen my series of the Cambridge insect, and considers 

 it certainly distinct from Hiibner's var. Par, said, in his joking way, "call it impar" : 

 and by this name I propose to distinguish it for the future. I should add that be- 



