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wondered if the varied coloration of the two local races (vars. hisjMua 

 and arragoncnsis) which occur in the Albarracin district is brought 

 about by different larval pabulum, and therefore it may not be 

 without interest to say that in the headquarters at All)arracin of var. 

 arrago7ie?isis, Hippocrepis commosa is an abundant plant. I did not 

 have an opportunity of visiting the habitat of var. hispana, but 

 perhaps some future observer who docs so will note if this plant 

 occurs there also. 



A. liylas var. nivescens. — This species was very late in appearing, 

 but Mr. Jones took a very large male expanding 43 mm. at Santa 

 Croche on June 21st, and a second smaller male at Losilla on 

 June 28th. 



Cclastrina argiolus. — Not common ; a few specimens only wore 

 seen. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



ToRTRix PRONUBANA. — Esferring to Mr. Lowe's remarks {antea, 

 p. 291), I have had no geraniums from outside sources for several 

 years. I am of opinion that the larva referred to was an escape from 

 a number of larvae I collected at Bournemouth the previous August, 

 many of which died while quite small in December. My object 

 in writing was to suggest that a proportion of the August larva3 

 hibernate, producing a Spring brood, which in turn produces the 

 August brood. What the Autumn vioths do I cannot tell. I have 

 entirely failed to secure a pairing among them. Neither have I ever 

 succeeded in finding either moth or larva in the Spring, except the 

 solitary specimen recorded, which cannot be regarded as normal. 

 It may be that the habits of this species in Britain are different from 

 what they are on the Continent. It would be interesting to know 

 if any British observer, or Mr. Lowe in Guernsey, has carried the 

 species through the cycle of an entire year. — (Rev.) W. Claxton ; 

 Navestock Vicarage, Romford. 



Note on Cucullia lychnitis, — On July 22nd, 1911, while 

 collecting on a dull day in Oxfordshire I took a few larvae of 

 Cucullia verbasci nearly full-grown on Verhascum nigrum, and 

 gathered a supply of the plant for food. The latter I placed in 

 water on arrival home, and on looking at this on July 25th I found 

 eighteen very small larvae feeding, which I identified some time later 

 as those of G. lychnitis. They grew very rapidly, and some idea 

 of this may be gathered from the fact that all had gone down to 

 pupate on August 22nd. The pupte were kept in a room in which 

 there was no fire during the winter, and the imagines emerged as 

 follows: June 2nd, one; June 3rd, two; June 4th, one; June 6th, 

 four ; June 29th, two ; July 26th, two ; August 3rd, one = thirteen ; 

 June 1st, one ; July 3rd, one ; July 8th, one = three. It will be 

 noticed that only three of the sixteen pupae passed the second winter 

 in that stage. — H. L. Dolton; 27, Brunswick Street, Reading, Berks, 

 October 6th, 1913. 



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