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wing a reddish-brown, with one dark spot. Hind wings blackish- 

 brown throughout, with Hghter shadings on outer margin, and not a 

 sign anywhere of the usual red, blue or yellow markings. — C. Saville ; 

 16, Mincing Lane, E.G. 3. 



[The photo, print, which is too dark for reproduction, appears to 

 represent ab. ichmisoides, Selys, or a modification of that form, and 

 seems to agree with a specimen, also from Sussex, figured in the 

 ' Entomologist ' for 1900, pi. iii, fig. 1.— Ed.] 



Catocala nupta, ab. — In ' Moths of the British Isles,' series ii, it 

 is mentioned that specimens of Catocala nujjta had been taken in the 

 environs of London, the hind wings of which were of a brown tint. It 

 may be of interest to record that I took such a specimen at sugar in 

 early September, 1917, the hind wings being of a rich warm brown— 

 chocolate-brown. — E. A. S. Redmayne ; Claremont Lodge, Cobham, 

 Surrey. 



Catocala nupta, ab. — On September 12th of this year I caught 

 on a telegraph post just outside Loughton, Essex, a male specimen 

 of Catocala nupta, with its underwings a dusky brown without any 

 shade of red on either side of the wings. — Harbison Copeland ; The 

 Cottage, Lower Park Eoad, Loughton, Essex. 



Note on Pieris napi. — While collecting on the mountains near 

 Llangollen on August 9th, at an elevation of 1660 feet, where the 

 vegetation appeared to consist entirely of heaths and grasses, I met 

 with abundance of Pieris napi. Being curious to know what plant 

 the larvae had fed upon I made a careful search. The only likely 

 plant I could find was the Hairy Bittercress {Carclaynine hirsuta), 

 stunted examples of which, a few inches high, were scattered all 

 over the moors. No doubt this would be the food-plant. The 

 butterflies were of normal size. — A. H. Thompson ; 54, Church 

 Road, Northwich. 



Saturnia pavonia $ PLYING IN Daytime. — I have observed that 

 all authors of works on entomology who allude to this point state 

 that the female " Emperor Moth " (Saturnia pavonia) flies at night 

 only. On May 3rd last I caught a fine female flying about from gorse- 

 bush to gorse-bush, sipping the honey from the flowers. Her flight 

 was quite different from that of the males, of whom there were many, 

 on the wing, in that it was much slower and less erratic, resembling 

 more that of, say, a Garden White Butterfly. Incidentally I may men- 

 tion that I took Phragviatobia fuliginosa on the wing May 3rd oir the 

 same common (Fairmile Common). Surely an early emergence ! — 

 R. A. S. Redmayne ; Claremont Lodge, Cobham, Surrey. 



ApORIA CRAT.EGI, AND PaRARGE MEG^RA IN WesT HeRTS.— I WaS 



much interested in Mr. Rowland-Brown's account of Pararge megara 

 in N.W. Middlesex. I obtained a male specimen myself this past 

 summer on Oxhey golf course, and I fully concur that the past two 

 seasons have been extremely good ones for lepidopterists. I made a 

 capture of some local importance on June 16th last in the neighbour- 

 hood of Hemel Hempstead, no less than a tine specimen of Aporia 

 cratcegi, which, according to the particulars before me, is the second 

 record only for the county of Hertford. I understand the species 



