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the last fourteen years. The districts in which they have occurred 

 were chiefly in Somersetshire and South Wales. In- Somersetshire 

 the locahty was near the Bristol Channel, the valleys and low-lyin^ 

 land being wet m character, often flooded in a rainy season, the hills 

 above bemg of the carboniferous limestone formation. In S Wales 

 the dis net was near the sea-coast, a great deal of marshy laud being 

 near, tl^e valleys often wet, the hills above being of the old red sand 

 mXJ J, following were the species noticed :-Epinephele ianira. 

 Males not imfrequently very dark and velvety-looking near the sea. 



t\ZT!;.J^'V' 7''\'' ^.r^^'' ^" '°^^ ^^"^y« occasionally broader- 

 vemed and darker-looking than typical specimens. S. Wahs.-Fidonia 

 atomana. One specimen nearly black, amongst heather, on high 

 ground near the Mendips. ^omer.ei.-TephrosiLrepusmlaria. Brown 

 pecimens, frequently. ^omex^ei.-Boarmia repandata. The daS^ 

 banded form very frequent in S. Wales, and not unfrequently in 



SZ rse ":.'r •^""'"r^^'''""'f^ ^ -^'^y dark^pecimen 



bomeiset.-^ir«aY/s grossxtlanata. A dark specimen on the Cotswolds 



Gloucestershire ; a dry ^lixx^iion.-Hyherniamarginaria {vroqel^arZ 

 bpecimens approachmg ^^fuscata " more or less not unfreqSent. Somer- 

 set the darkest specimens taken on hills above Bath-a dry situation. 

 -H dejoUana. Specimens freckled over with dark spots occa- 

 sionally (Newman's 2nd figure). Somerset.-CW»,..o,m..r^-Lw' 

 One specimen with dark shade extending from middle of fore wings o 

 Wales" rT''^'?V''? ^^'^^'^^^y ^^^^^ ^^^n typical specimens.^ s' 

 Wales.— Theraobdiscata. One specimen with upper wings dark slatp 



unSrnt""^f 'rY- "^T"^^--^^^^^ 



unfiequently much darker and more suffused than typical specimens • 

 one with upper wings entirely dark brown, no markings. T Wales' 

 -O'dana russata (tncncata). Upper wings /...^u..% dark smoky brown 

 and suffused (pe>ficscata n. I did not see a single typical spec ZS 

 {centumnotata Newman) last summer. S. Walef. _ plw/./ ^^ 

 ipil^aru^. One specimen with upper wings nearly black."" Someter 



T^ Wot: ^^^i^^— ^^{'«^'«/«"r/*^*«. Dark brown specimens frequent 

 iL ;. f ' ^""^ occasionally in Somersetshire; -latrnncula" appears 

 the most common form in S. Wales.-Zl7^•../,•a o^yacanth^. Dark brown 

 specimens as figured in Newman, several seasons. 8omevset -mZa 

 fagella. Grey specimens not unfrequent. Somersetshiro. - T B 

 Jefferys ; Langharne, Carmarthenshire, Feb., 1894. 



Curious Find in an " Atlas " Cocoon.— Having recently purchased 

 some cocoons of the Indian silk-moth Attacus atlls, 1 wL LrSed at 

 the extraordinary weight of one of them, which, although a vey fine 

 one, seemed heavier than it should be. I therefore opened the cocoon 

 and was surprised to find inside it a piece of quartz, about Zee: 

 quarters of an inch long by half an inch in width and thickness The 

 pupa was a pulverised, unrecognisable mass, evidently from 'violent 

 contact with the piece of quartz whilst in the soft and tenirS 

 following change from larva to pupa. The question is, how came the 

 piece of quartz into the cocoon? The latter had evidently been spun 

 upon a tree, because it is enclosed within a leaf, and has the pedicle 



ENTOM.— MAY, 1894. 



