NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 209 



fringe reddish ; posterior wings with a row of dots parallel to the 

 hind margin." (Humphrey and Westwood's ' British JMoths,' vol. 

 i. i^. 245.) This intermediate form does not vary in the length of 

 the fore-wings, more than the specimens of the type, i.e., they 

 both vary slightl}'. Tlie small basal branching line is as frequent 

 in the reddest types as in the variety. 



ft. var. pallescens, mihi. — I have a series of a fine pale form 

 of this species, varying from pale whitish grey to almost white, 

 without a trace of the rufous colouring; the spots as in the type. 

 My specimens came from Deal. I have seen specimens of the 

 type and var. lineola from Epping Forest, but do not know 

 whether pale forms occur there. 



It may be advisable to add that the female has a very different 



appearance to the male. It is much narrower winged, and with 



scarcel}' a trace of dots on either the anterior or posterior wings. 



It is but rarely captured, and owing to its habit of remaining 



hidden in the herbage by the side of the ditches where it occurs, 



is generally worn. 



(To be contiuueil.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IX JuNE. — At p. 184 of the 'Entomologist' a 

 correspondent records the appearance of a specimen of C. ediisa 

 on the 12th of June, remarking that this butterfly appears to be 

 out unusually '^arly this year. Probably, if he had caught the 

 insect, which he merely saw " careering along in its usual head- 

 long fashion," he would have found that it was a hybernated 

 specimen. While collecting at Starcross, South Devon, at the 

 end of June, I took a specimen of C. ediisa, which proved to be a 

 hybernated female. I can fully confirm the experience of numerous 

 correspondents who record the unusual abundance of hybernated 

 specimens of ]\iiiexs(i cardai and Plmia gamma this year. — 

 E. W. H. Blagg; Cheadle, Staffordsliire. 



Apatura iris in Hants. — In August, 1887, whilst driving in 

 a dog-cart from Christchurch, I saw Apatura iris flying along the 

 hedge of a bare roadside. I immediately gave the reins to a 

 fiicnd who was in the cart with me, and pursued it with the dog- 

 cart whip, and througli a piece of luck I managed to hit the 



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