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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Butterflies of the Pyrenees : a Correction. — In my summary 

 of the butterflies taken last year in the Pyrenees, I mentioned that M, C. 

 Oberthur had reported LyccEna var. lijcidas, from the Lac de Gaube. 

 My informant, M. P. Rondou, of Gedre, has since written to tell me 

 that the species turns out to be a new form of L. escheri, aud not the 

 variety of L. zephyrus wliich collectors have turned up near Berisal and 

 in some of the lateral valleys of the Rhone, but not hitherto westward of 

 the Central Alps. — H. Rowland-Brown ; Harrow Weald, Dec. 19th, 1905. 



British Butterfly Post Cards. — We have received from Mr. 

 Walter Dannatt a series of half-a-dozen post cards upon which are 

 printed, in colour, one or more excellent figures of British butterflies. 

 These pictures from nature are very fine examples of what can now 

 be done by the three-colour printing process. 



AcRONYCTA LEPORiNA VAR, MELANocEPHALA. — In my Hote in Eutom. 

 xxxviii. 289, I should have pointed out that the form of J. leporina met 

 with in Lancashire and Cheshire is referable to var. bradyporina, Tr. 

 In calling this the "local type" I quite overlooked the above fact. We 

 do not get the typical leporina, in which the ground colour is pure 

 white with scarcely any black dusting. The variety melayiocephala is 

 quite distiuct, and not to be confounded with bradyporina ; the most 

 striking diflerence between them being the black thorax and darker 

 coloration of the former. — William Mansbridge ; Liverpool. 



[ Epiblema (Phlocodes) immundana. — Referring to Mr. Bankes's note 



I (Entom. xxxviii,, p, 311), re Epiblema immundana, I have examined 



my series of the insect taken here, and find that the majority of the 



first brood have the dorsal blotch white or whitish. I find I have only 



r one specimen of the August brood taken here, which I suppose in- 



l dicates that it is scarce. That specimen has the blotch white. — E. F. 



Studd ; Oxtou, Exeter, Dec. 8th, 1905. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Crambus fascelinellus in South Devon. — I beg to record the 



capture of three specimens of Crambus fascelinellus in South Devon. 



The above were identified by Mr. Bankes, and he informs me that the 



capture of this species in South Devon is of great interest, as it 



[ has been previously taken only on the east coast. Barrett in his 



' Lep. Britt, Islands, vol. x., p, 108, gives its British distribution as 



' limited to the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex coast. The date they were 



taken was August 21st, 1901. Mr. Bankes also says this is rather 



late for this insect. — H. M. Edelsten, F.E.S. ; Forty Hill, Enfield. 



