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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



very little interest in the larger moths, I was about to pass on, when 

 its pecular attitude, reminding me of Endotricha flammealis, caused 

 me to examine it more closely, when I found I was looking, for the 

 first time, at P. moneta " in the flesh." It is a fairly good, but not 

 quite first-rate, male. I have not heard of its occurrence in this 

 neighbourhood before. — A. Thurnall ; Wanstead, Essex, August 4th, 

 ,1918. 



EucosMiA UNDULATA IN CUMBERLAND. — I notice that in 'Moths 

 of the British Isles' Westmoreland is given as the northern limit of 

 E . undulata ; \t may therefore be of interest to state that I take it 

 regularly, though rather sparingly, in this district. In fact, I have 

 three localities near here, each some miles distant from the other, 

 where it may be found with fair certainty, but it is nowhere plentiful. 

 — (Eev.) Harold D. Ford, Thursby Vicarage, Carlisle. 



Eupithecia oblongata (oentaureata) bred from Garden 

 Gladiolus. — In the autumn of 1917 Mr. W. West, of Lewisham, 

 sent me a Eiqnthecia larva that he had found feeding in the blossom 

 of a Gladiolus in his garden. During the fortnight that it was in 

 my possession it fed readily on the flowers of the same species with 

 which I supplied it, then pupated in a slight cocoon spun between 

 one of the blossoms and the muslin cover of the cage, and to-day 

 produced an undoubted E. oblongata. One is so accustomed to 

 regard the Umbelliferce and Covipositcs as furnishing the natural 

 pabulum of this larva that to find it attached to a species so far 

 removed from them botanically as the Iridece appears to be some- 

 what remarkable. — E. Adkin ; Eastbourne, July 22nd, 1918. 



Gynandromorphous Dryas paphia in the New Forest. — When 

 visiting the Natural History Museum recently Dr. G. A. K. Marshall 

 showed me a very interesting specimen of D. papliia that had been 

 captured by Mr. P. Darling at Bank, Lyndhurst, on August 7th last. 

 This was a gynandromorph exhibiting the characters of male ^jajj/i«« 

 on the left side and those of valesina on the right side. Examples of 

 gynandromorphism in D. imphia have rarely been recorded in Britain, 

 perhaps the most recent — previous to the present note — being that 

 of a specimen (taken in the New Forest) exhibited by Capt. Cardew 

 at a meeting of the South London Entomological Society, held on 

 February 24th, 1910. Up to the date of my departure from Brocken- 

 hurst (July 10th) I had not heard of any varieties of D. paphia, 

 although the species was " well out " at that time. I understand that 

 several aberrations were seen or captured at a later date, among these 

 being pale spotted forms and individuals with confluent markings.— 

 KiCHARD South. 



Aberration op Zyg.ena trifolii in the New Forest and the 

 Christchurch Marshes. — On June 25th last I struck a colony Of 

 this species in the New Forest, and on that day and on two others 

 towards the end of the month some interesting aberrations were 

 obtained, including basalis, cjlycirrhizce, vdnoides, and modifications 

 of those forms— eleven specimens in all. From some two hundred 

 cocoons of trifolii sent to me from the Christchurch Marshes, one 

 basalis and tliree glycirrhisce were obtained among the one hundred 



