90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
June, with plenty of Ancylis mitterbacheriana. There is a certain 
amount of Pinus sylvestris in one portion of the chart, amongst 
which I found Sieganoptycha rubiginosana abundant, and also a few 
Grapholitha cosmophorana, G. coniferana, Olethreutes btfasciana, 
and swarms of Evetria pinivorana. Acrobasis tumidana, Salebria 
betula and S. fusca also occurred.—W. G. SHenpon. 
LyMANTRIA MONACHA, ab.—My attention has recently been drawn 
to a note by Mr. Rippon in this Journal for September, 1914, on a 
form of L. monacha in which the crimson bands on the body are 
replaced by yellow. As it is suggested that this variation is of great 
rarity, it may be worth recording the occurrence of a few yellow- 
banded specimens (I have four, and there were certainly others) 
among a large brood of otherwise normal insects bred in June, 1910, 
from ova from a ¢ taken near Dawlish the previous summer. 
H. Worstry Woop; 31, Agate Road, W. 
CILISSA MELANURA IN SuRREY.—I am not sure if this bee has been 
recorded from Surrey; but although rather late in the day, it may be 
interesting to mention the capture of a single ? specimen at 
Thornton Heath in August, 1908. I should have passed it over as 
merely the far better known but closely allied C. leporina, had I not 
noticed the sub-triangular abdomen. The other differences pointed 
out by Mr. Sladen when he added it to the British list (‘ Ent. Mo. 
Mag.,’ xxxili, 220) are to be seen plainly enough. I may add that 
the far better known leporina was at times not at all uncommon in 
the same district. In August, 1905, I found eleven ¢ ¢ in a cluster 
on a flower head of Senecio jacobea near Purley. The late Mr. 
Edward Saunders suggested the presence of a female, which was 
probably the case, but I was unable to find her.—A. THuRNALL; 
Wanstead, January 25th, 1916. 
DepressaRIA HepaterRIeELLA.—I took a specimen of this insect at 
Aviemore on August 6th, 1914, which has only lately been identified. 
As it is new to the British list, it may be as well to note its capture. 
A second specimen was taken in the same place last August by Mr. 
F. Pennington, who kindly gave it to me. The latter specimen was 
identified by Mr. Meyrick. The second capture is interesting as 
showing that the first was not a casual specimen, and that the insect 
may be included as a genuine British insect.—Francis C. Woop- 
BRIDGE, F.HS.; South Mead, Gerrards Cross. 
Variety oF VANESSA Urticm.—In May of last year. (1915) 
Master J. Robertson, of Hoole, Chester, caught on the wing an 
unusual colour variety of V. wriic@ in Messrs. Dickson’s nurseries, 
Newton, Chester. When captured it was with a number of the 
normal type and Pyrameis atalanta, A description of the colour 
variation is here given:—Measurements same as in the type. 
Front wings: Costa and hind margins black, diffused with brown, 
(blue spots entirely absent). Central area of orange-red, diffused 
with sooty-brown, with one black spot instead of three. Hind wings ; 
Blue spots on hind margin, as in the type, or nearly so. Subterminal 
band of orange-red, almost hidden with diffusion of sooty-brown. 
Under surface generally diffused with sooty-brown (nearly black). 
