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more than a race of dortneyeri. It agrees in structure and almost 

 entii'ely in colour, but dormeyeri has the blue hair at sides of female 

 abdomen hardly going beyond the second segment, as in ccerulea, 

 whereas in Meade-Waldo's insect from Borneo it extends to the 

 fourth segment. Meade- Waldo overlooked the description of dor- 

 meyeri, or he would prol^ably not have separated his species. — 



T. D. A. COCKEEELL. 



E^VANESSA ANTIOPA AT Rannoch. — I saw a white-baudcd speci- 

 men of E. antiopa in Carrie Wood on April 17th, but failed to 

 capture it. Later on, when walking along the north side of Loch 

 Rannoch, I met one of the workers in the wood, who gave me a 

 fairly good female example of this butterfly. Whilst beating the 

 birches on the north side of the loch on April 22nd a specimen of 

 E. antio'pa flew out, but quite out of reach of the net. On April 27th 

 I captured a specimen that was feeding on the sap of a birch-tree, 

 but a specimen on the next tree managed to escape. Returning to 

 these birch-trees on May 5th, I secured another specimen of the 

 butterfly. — L. G. EssoN : Kinloch, Rannoch. 



EuGONiA POLYCHLOROS AT BRIGHTON. — On April 12th, an excep- 

 tionally fine and warm day, a large, although somewhat faded, 

 specimen of this butterfly settled in front of me on the grass as I 

 was walking up a wooded road at Withdeane, a village just north 

 of Brighton, at 9 a.m. (summer-time). During the last thirty years 

 as an entomological observer I have never met this species in this 

 neighbourhood before. — F. G. S. Bramwell ; 1, Wyke Road Drive, 

 Brighton. 



Pyrameis atalanta in March. — Mrs. S. Lamb tells me that she 

 saw two Red Admirals in her garden at Brockenhurst, Hants, on 

 March 21st last. — ^W. J. Lucas. 



PoLYGONiA c-ALBUM AT OswESTRY IN March. — I saw a Specimen 

 of the Comma butterfly at Oswestry on March 25th last. I was 

 without a net and so unable to capture it, but it appeared to be a 

 female in good condition. — (Lt.-Col.) W. Godfrey ; Bryn y Coed, 

 Llanfair Road, Abergele. 



Aricia medon ab. artaxerxes in Suffolk. — With reference to 

 notes on this subject {antea, pp. 92 and 112), I may mention that a 

 form of medon sometimes occurs in this neighbourhood (Cambridge) 

 with a distinct white discoidal spot, but otherwise typical. Is it not 

 possible that examples of this form have been mistaken for the true 

 artaxerxes of the north, particularly as the variation seems only to 

 have been noticed one season ? A too sudden i-eversion to type, one 

 would think, for the true variety. — Hugh Percy Jones ; 19, Tenison 

 Avenue, Cambridge. 



Butterflies at Emsworth. — Limenitis sibylla was more plentiful 

 here last year than I have ever known it, but Pieris brassiccB and 

 P. rapes, more especially the latter, were in swarms during July and 

 August. P. rapcB was seen, not only in gardens where cabbages 

 grew, but in every field or waste place where there were wild flowers 

 this species was fluttering about in great numbers. I saw one speci- 

 men flying in my garden on March 21th this year. Vanessa to was 



