NOTES ON COLLECTING. 



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This is due to its close connection with Asia Minor, which it resembles 

 in many ways. It undoubtedly affords several subzones, which will 

 have to be made out, but it still needs much work, and, anyhow, it 

 would be out of keeping with the object of this paper to enter into a 

 description of it. 



{To be continued.) 



Jg^OTES ON COLLECTING, etc. 



An Aberration of E. glyphica. — On June 18th at Horsley I 

 captured a specimen of F/ucUdia (/li/phica, L., with the normal yellow 

 of the hindwings replaced by cream colour. The majority of the 

 upper layer of scales are unpigmented and rolled up. 



I do not know of any other record of this kind of scale defect in 

 ghjphira, but a long list of examples in other species is given in 

 my paper published in the Trans. Land. N.H. Soc, 1921, pp. 58-64. 

 — E. A. Cockayne (M.D., F.E.S.). 



Catocala nupta var. — On Monday, September 4th, I took a variety of 

 Catocala nupta. The forewings are normal in colour and markings. 

 The underwings are of a dark chocolate-brown colour, where in the 

 type it is brick-red. The black markings on the hindwings are as in 

 type as regards size and shape, but the edges are slightly shot with 

 dark purple. I saw this specimen near Coggeshall in Essex resting on 

 the wall of a house. Its size is normal. — Thomas B. Daltry, Madeley, 

 Stevenage, Herts. 



A Rare Spider. — In a marshy field near Rye, Sussex, I found on 

 September 2nd, 1922, a female specimen of the handsome 

 spider Atiiiajie brnennichi. Scop. The web was spun between reeds, 

 amongst a bed of yellow wild flowers. The spider had just caught an 

 immature grasshopper. Mr. S. Hirst, who kindly identified the 

 specimen, writes : — 



" This spider is fairly widely distributed in Europe, and in France 

 it occurs as far North as Paris. So far as I am aware the species has 

 not been found before in this country." — Frank Slade, F.Z.S., 

 3, Market Street, Rye, Sussex. September Wtli, 1922. 



Abundance of EucHLoii oardamines in East Tyrone, 1922 ; a 

 record in gynandromorphs ! — This species was out in wonderful 

 numbers during the only fine spell of weather that we have had so far 

 this season ; ab. warcjinata, turning up again and I was pleased to get 

 two examples of ab. dispila, Raynor. 



On May 27th I had the great luck to capture the two 

 gynandromorphous specimens described below ; the first being netted 

 at 3.30 p.m. (S.T.) and the second at about 5.30, in localities a quarter 

 of a mile apart. 



(1) 2 ; upperside left forewing with a broad stripe of the (? colour 

 extending from discoidal into the apical blotch. Underside left fore- 

 wing with a large orange patch from discoidal to apical blotch, cover- 

 ing two thirds of the wing in this area; right forewing with three 

 orange streaks from discoidal to outer margin ; sub-costal veins 

 broadly streaked with yellow. 



