﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLVIIL] OCTOBER, 1915. [No. 629 



A NEW ABERRATION OF EUXOA CORTICEA, Hb. 

 By Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, M.A., F.E.S. 



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I took the above aberration in my light-trap at Haver on 

 July 5th last. The specimen is a male in good condition, and 

 falls into Tutt's section A (' British Noctuae and their Varieties', ii. 

 p. 61) ; it differs from the four varieties here listed, however, in 

 having the claviform and orbicular stigmata almost obsolete. 



It may be couvenient for purposes of reference to name this 

 aberration ohsoleta. The specimen is deposited in the British 

 Museum. 



SOME NOTES ON THE PAPILIONIDS. 



By Cecil Floersheim, F.E.S. 



In spite of the fact that the late Mr. Tutt warned me that an 

 early success of mine in crossing Papilio machaon, male, with 

 P. polyxenes {asterias), female, was not likely to be rei^eated, I 

 have mainly spent the last few years, as far as entomology is 

 concerned, in a fruitless endeavour to obtain further hybrids 

 amongst the Papilioninse. In the course of my experiments, it 



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