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apex of a deeper brown. Nervures sprinkled with whitish. The 

 two stigmata large, and of the same hue as the ground colour. 

 Inferior wings of a clearer grey, with a darker lunule, median 

 line and subterminal shade." This is therefore only a larger, 

 brighter form than ours. Mr. Dobree writes : — " Guenee sepa- 

 rated petasitis from England and vindelicia from Bavaria, because 

 in those early days it was not understood that British insects are 

 generally smaller, less distinctly marked, and less brilliantly 

 coloured than Continental specimens, especially as you approach 

 Southern Europe " {in litt.). 



&. var. amurensis, Stdgr. — Dr. Staudinger, in his last trade 

 list (1887), included a variety of this species, from the Amur 

 district, under the name of amurensis. Of this variety I know 

 nothing, but Mr. Dobree has kindly given me the following 

 information, "I have v. amurensis, and if the three or four I 

 have illustrate them all, the markings are possibly a little more 

 distinct than ours, and the violet gloss very decidedly more 

 noticeable, but otherwise they do not differ from our speci- 

 mens " {in litt.). 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN DEVONSHIRE. — On September 6th I took 

 a specimen of Colias edusa at Haldon in Devonshire, and saw 

 another on the wing. Having seen this species on the 8th, 9th, 

 and 10th of September, flying in different parts of that district, 

 I thought it might be the beginning of an " edusa year." 

 However, a visit to the clover-fields in the neighbourhood of 

 Dartford, Kent, on the ilth, dispelled that opinion, for there 

 was not the sign of either Colias edusa or C. hijale. A day's 

 work at Riddlesdown on the 12th, and at Otford on the 13th, 

 also resulted in no edusa. — H. A. Auld. 



Colias edusa, var. helice, at Chichester. — I captured a 

 fine specimen of the variety helice of Colias edusa, in a clover- 

 field in the neighbourhood of this city, on September 13th. It 

 is a primrose-coloured insect. The type has occurred sparingly 

 with us this season.— Joseph Anderson, jun. 



