112 THE e\to:mologist. 



shaped ; sixth, eighth, and nintli bi-huinped ; seventh bifid- 

 humped, and most conspicuous of all tlie humps. There is a very 

 beautiful variety of the male larva, of which I was not previously 

 aware, the ground colour being of a pale yellowish green, with a 

 broad dorsal reddish brown stripe, and two lateral rows of lozenge- 

 shaped blotches, two on each segment, of same colour as stripe. 

 This variety, contrary to the common form, retains its colouring 

 all through the larval state, and exactly simulates the reddish 

 brown catkins of the birch, so much so tliat three or four catkins, 

 attached to the upper surface of a leaf, so deceived me that I 

 imagined I had more larvse of the variety than was really the case. 

 I observed that the ground colour of the pupa of the variety is of a 

 creamy white, slightly suffused with the palest green, and that the 

 wing-cases and segments of the body of imprisoned imago are 

 sharply defined by dark green; also that moths bred from such 

 j)up8e are of an intenser green than those of the common form. 



It is noticeable that the larva of the common form, pupa, and 

 Ijerfect insect are all green ; and the moth is probably a unique 

 instance of a lepidopterous insect preserving the same colour 

 throughout all its metamorphoses. 



The perfect insect often attains a maximum size of about two 

 and a quartei' inches, and in localities where it abounds it may be 

 easily netted at dusk about the end of July, though it is some- 

 what a swift flyer. 



Berkeley Villa, Charhvood Eoad, Putney, S.W. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



PiF.nis RAPi'"- IN February.— On February '28th, wlien visiting in my 

 parish, 1 saw a white butterfly fluttering to tlie ground in one of the streets 

 of Porlkw. The insect was soon captured, and I was much astonished to 

 find a perfectly fresh specimen of the above species. Tlie sun was very 

 hot, though last night was the coldest this winter, the thermometer regis- 

 tering I 2 degrees of frost. — (Rev.) William W. Fle.myng ; Clonegam 

 Rectory, Portlaw, Co. Waterford, February 28, 1889. 



Variety of Pieris brassic^e. — I have recently seen in a very old 

 collection a curious variety of this species. The ground colour is sulphur- 

 yellow as in the var. aurea of Pieris rapcB. It is the best variety of this 

 species that has come under my notice, tiie next best being in the collection 

 of the late Nicholas Cook, the wuigs in the latter being sutFused with 

 smoky. In Mr. Gregson's collection was one with the veins partly bright 

 green. All these specimens are males. Mr. Hardiugs, of Shrewsbury, 

 sent me several specimens, fed up on canary creeper, with the fringes 

 bright yellow. — S. L. Mosley ; Beaumont Park Museum, Huddersfield. 



Deilephila galii in Kknt. — An unrecorded capture of Deilephiia 

 gain was made here in August last, flying about sweet williams in early 

 twilight. — Archibald Gostling ; Woodfield, Gravesend, March 19, 188'J. 



