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to Lang (Rbopalocera Europse, vol. i, p. 17S), P. Callirhoe was im- 

 ported into the Cai)ary Islands from South Portugal or Andalusia. 

 Kirby remarks, in his review of Mrs. Holt White's book (Nature, 

 February 22nd, 1S91), that it is East Indian in its affinities. It is 

 certainly found in China (Leech, Butt, of China, Japan, and Corea, 

 i, p. 252) and in Northern India (Niceville, Butt. Ind., ii, p. 229, 

 pi. xviii). 



Ptrameis Hunteka, E. 



Not very rare in Teucrife, but very local ; gi-eat luimbers have 

 been caught at a village called Tacoronte. 



Gundlach,in his "Conti'ibucion a la Entomologia Cubana" (1S8I), 

 pp. 41-2, says concerning this insect, " No he nolado diferencia de la 

 P. cardui. Los dos sexos son iguales y sobre la diferencia de la 

 especie precedente vease lo dicho en P. cardui.'''' Side by side with 

 Gundlach's words, let me quote Abbot and Smith (Natural History of 

 the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, mdccxcvii, vol. i) : " This 

 had long been considered as the same species with P. cardui till 

 Eabricius separated them, and their metamorphoses confirm his 

 opinion. It is one of those instances of American insects, like several 

 plants of that countr}^ being very similar to those of Europe, but not 

 the same." Mrs. Holt AVhite says (pp. 56-7) : " A scarce vai-iety in 

 Tenerife * * * similar in colouring to the cardui, but somewhat 

 brighter ;" but surely there is considerable differentiation in the black 

 markings of P. Htmtera being fewer, the anterior-wings more rounded 

 at the apices, and the fore-wings having a deeper pink on the under- 

 side than P. cardui. Also the two large eye-spots near the hind-margin 

 of the hind-wings are verj^ large and conspicuous. 



The flight of P. cardui in Tenerife is much more rapid than that 

 of the English specimens.* I notice that the Eev. Douglas Timins 

 says the continental P. cardui fly much more strongly than in England 

 (" Note of a Month's Collecting at Cannes," Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 

 3rd series, vol. ii, pt. v, p. 102). 



CoLiAS Edusa, Eab. 

 Those specimens of C. Edusa caught in Tenerife are similar to 

 the English, but much brighter in colouring, and larger in size, some 



* I a.sk whether this is real or Illusory ? and also whether the remark refers to specimens 

 that have pres>imabl_y migrated or not? I may he wrong, but it lias always seemed to 

 me that immigrant examples of P. cardui in this country fly in a much more headlong 

 manner than those undoubtedly recently bred here. This occurred to me forcibly during the 

 remarkable immigration of the species in the cold, cheerless svimmer of 1879. These immigrants 

 are usually much worn, and the absence of the pigment-laden scales would render them lighter 

 on the wing, independent of the unknown impulse which apparently urges them forward. 

 The females in these examples have possibly mostly laid their eggs long before arri\ ing on our 

 shores, and this al.so would give them additional lightness. The matter is suggestive, and worthy 

 of further consider.ition. — U. McLachlan. 



