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orbicular, reniform, and a line parallel to hind margin. There is scarcely 

 a trace of the ordinary pale markings between the reniform area and hind 

 margin. Hind wings as in var. argentea. This appears to be a rare variety, 

 for Mr. Richardson writes, "This does not seem to be a common var., as 

 I have only seen one or two others with so little in the way of light 

 marl<ings " (m litt.). I have only Portland specimens. 



{. var. oditis, Hb. ? — I am not certain that Hiibner's figs. 694 and 695, 

 oditis, really represent a variety of hispidus, but I firmly believe it is the same 

 as my var. suffusa. If Hiibner's oditis really is this species, tbe name would 

 take priority of Geyer's hispidus. My description of oditis is as follows : — 

 " $. Looks like a small hispidus. Anterior wings brown, all nervures 

 transverse lines and stigmata yellow-ochreous. Hind wings grey, darker on 

 margin, a dark line parallel to hind margin, and dark lunule." Fig. 695 is 

 the under side of fig. 694. Guenee, referring to oditis, says (' Noctuelles,' 

 vol. V. p. 172), " I have not seen it, and know no one who possesses it." 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



General Index to thk ' Entomolog[st.' — The proposal that Mr. 

 Newman should publish, by subscription, a General Index to all the 

 volumes of the 'Entomologist' issued (vide Entom. 78), has, we are 

 pleased to say, been favourably received, and a large number who wish to 

 take copies have already sent in their names. There still, however, 

 remains a deficit, and it is most desirable that all those who intend to 

 subscribe, but who have not, should do so as early as possible, so that the 

 work may be proceeded with. We would remind our readers that this work 

 will really constitute a resume of Entomology for the past quarter century, 

 and will form a large-sized volume, uniform with the series of the 

 ' Entomologist.' — Ed. 



PiERis BRAssic^ WITH VEINS OF WINGS Green. — Chance has satisfied 

 me that more importance has been given to this than the subject deserves. 

 In Dr. Gill's cabinet there was a male specimen of this butterfly, with all 

 the veins broadly green from the margins to the centre of the wings ; and 

 in Mr. Gregson's another, also a male, in which the same appears, but not 

 quite so strikingly. In each of these insects blotches of colour at the end of 

 some of the veins show that there has been a rupture, and that the cause 

 came from the margins, not from moisture from the body of the butterfly. 

 Last year I netted several hrassicce for practice in setting by my children. 

 Individuals of these, pinned in a damp box, were neglected for some little 

 time. When taken out, behold similar specimens to the above examples ! 

 the veins green, and ruptured identically the same as these so-called 

 varieties. An experiment, made in consequence, proved that these could, 

 at pleasure, be produced, provided the insect to be acted upon had been but 

 a short time from the pupa. — Sydney Webb ; Maidstone House, Dover, 

 April 3, 1889. 



Food-plant of Hesperia action. — In the E. M. M., vol x., p. 86, 

 the late Mr. Wm. Buckler described the food-plant of the larva of Hesperia 

 actceon as Brachypodium sylvaticum, and as 1 tind this statement is not 

 corrected in 'Buckler's Larvae,' published by the Ray Society, it may be 



