THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. X,\VII.] NOVEMBER, 1894. [No. 378. 



A CURIOUS ABERRATION OF EREBIA .ETHIOPS. 



The above figure represents a " bleached " variety of Erchia 

 (Cthiops, taken by Mr. H. Murray, of Carnforth, on August 10th, 

 1894, near that town. The specimen is somewhat below the 

 normal size, being only 1 inch 8 lines in expanse ; both right 

 wings and the left hind wing are normal, but the whole area of 

 the right fore wing is '' bleached," the usually rich brown grouncl 

 colour being reduced to a silvery brown-grey, and the colour of 

 the patch enclosing the ocelli to a dirty yellow, on which the 

 oceUi are conspicuo is. The under side of this wing has the 

 colour similarly reduced in tone, and when held to the light the 

 wing is semitransparent. 



The speci'nen is interesting, as exhibiting a phase of varia- 

 tion of somewhat frequent occurrence in Epiiiephele iaiiira, but 

 which appears to have been seldom detected in the species under 



notice. 



Egbert Adkin. 



NOTES FROM NORTH LANCASHIRE. 

 By J. Arkle. 



Why the summer of 1894, with its cloudy skies, intermittent 

 sunshine, thunderstorms and drenching showers, should be so 

 opposite in character to that of 1893, is a matter which may be 

 dismissed as beyond even the ken of scientists. Bather is it that 



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