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were very sluggish. The markings show up much more plainly 
when placed in alcohol. The dusky staining at the sides of the 
black veins is very characteristic and resembles in this respect 
Pergande’s Rhopalosiphum viole (‘ Canad. Ent.’ p. 30, 1900) and 
Kssig’s R.viole (‘Pomona Journ. Ent.’i, no. 1, p. 4, 1909), but 
there is no clouding of the vein endings, the colour is not ‘dark 
wine-red,’ the cornicles are much more vasiform in this new 
species, and the sensoria of the antenne are quite distinct. 
Thomas’ Rhopalosiphum tulipe@ has been shown by Davis to be 
only Schrank’s Rhopalosiphum (Aphis) dianthi (‘ Bull. Illinois 
State, Lab. Nat. Hist.’ x, art. ii, p. 106, 1913). There is also a 
general resemblance to my Neotoxoptera viole (‘Bull. Ent. Res.’ 
vi, pt. 1, p. 131, fig. 23, 1915), but the wing veination is quite 
distinct in the African insects, which all showed the marked 
Toxoptera veination. Davis, however, in a recent letter, thinks 
my latter species may be the same as Pergande’s R. viole and 
refers to Chittenden’s account (‘ Bull. 27, N.S., U.S. Dept. Agri. 
Div. Ent.’ pp. 42-47, 1901), where the inconstancy of the wing 
veination is pointed out. The species described here is, however, 
very distinct from Pergande’s, Essig’s, or my viole, both on 
account of antennal structure and wing ornamentation and 
colour. Boyer de Fonscolombe also describes an Aplin tulipe 
(‘Anns. d. 1. Soc. Ent. Fr.’ x, p. 167, 7, 1841). The apterous 
female is yellowish or grey-green and slightly pulverulent ; 
cornicles very short and black; antennz half the length of the body. 
This species I have not yet found in Britain. 
The species described here is subject to some variation in the 
amount of dark markings and also in the general colour of the 
body, some being deep green, others dull but shiny yellow-green, 
others almost brown. 
Specimens bred from violets from Goudhurst showed the 
following slight variations: The body was somewhat darker, 
being entirely dusky brownish with two greenish bars in front 
and somewhat paler on the last segments, and the four pairs of 
black lateral spots have paler areas around them; the tibiz are 
also paler, except at the apex, and the subcostal vein is yellowish 
and the vein stainings are not so marked. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON SOME SPRING AND AUTUMN BUTTERFLIES 
OF CANNES AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 132.) 
LycmNIp® (continued). 
P. vaton.—There is a somewhat remarkable note on this 
butterfly in Milliere’s ‘ Catalogue,’ part i. 
