THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Fig. 2. — Epinephele ianira, <? . Also captured at Eynsford, 

 last year, by Mr. Newman. The upper surface is of the usual 

 colour and otherwise normal, but on the under surface the discal 

 area of the fore wings is whitish grey, inclining to buff towards 

 base and inner margin ; the margins and outer border of these 

 wings are greyer than usual. The hind wings are also greyer 

 than in typical specimens. 



Fig. 3. — Lyccena corydon. So far as regards the body and 

 three of the wings this appears to be a male specimen, the left 

 fore wing and half of the thorax, however, are of the female 

 colour, with some patches of blue scales on the wing. On the 

 under surface the specimen seems to be normal, except that 

 there is a broad dark-grey dash along the costal area of the left 

 fore wing. This specimen was taken at Purley, by Mr. Kirk- 

 man, of Plumstead. 



When sending the specimens just referred to, Mr. Sabine also 

 included some other varieties that he had obtained during last 

 season. Among these were the following : — A fine example of 

 syngrapha, the blue female form of L. corydon, taken by Mr. 

 Stockwell, at Dover. An example of Euchloe cardamines with 

 curious pale orange tips (Plumstead). Two specimens of Cliry- 

 sophanus jMoeas, taken by his son, at Dartford, in October ; one 

 of these had unusually large blue spots on the hind wings, and 

 the other had the black before the band on the hind wing 

 delicately streaked with the coppery colour. 



EicHARD South. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA IN SUFFOLK IN 1901. 

 By Claude A. Pyett, M.I.J. 



It was with pleasure that I was able this year to renew 

 acquaintance with my favourite branch of entomology after two 

 years' comparative inactivity, owing to pressure of professional 

 engagements, and this resume of my more notable captures in 

 Suffolk will, I think, show that the season has been exceptionally 

 productive from the lepidopterist's point of view. 



Briefly summarised, the year has been remarkable in one 

 curious respect, that many of the usually common species have 

 been conspicuous by their infrequent occurrence, whilst rarities 

 have turned up in unexpected places. In speaking of the pro- 

 ductiveness of the season, however, I should exclude the first 

 five months of the year, during which moths were decidedly 

 scarce, collecting at light, with which I am principally familiar, 

 being an absolute failure. This circumstance I attribute to 

 climatic influences, the weather being " magnificently feminine," 

 as a London editor facetiously described it. A few warm sunny 

 days were sandwiched in a long period of wet, wintry, and windy 

 weatherj and I witnessed the unusual spectacle of four species of 



