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found one in the breeding- cage. A third followed on January 5th, and 

 a fourth on February 5th. Some larvae of Xeworia viridata hatched on 

 June IGth, 1905, from eggs deposited on the second of that month. 

 These pupated in due course. One imago emerged on December 20th 

 of that year, and one on each of the following dates this year — January 

 8th and 14th, February 2nd and 12th. A male specimen of Orgyia 

 gonosti(jma emerged on November 5th, 1905. The larva from which 

 this resulted pupated on September 26th. Another larva that pupated 

 on October 16th produced a female specimen on November 20th. Two 

 larvae of DtisycJiira pudiMmda that pupated in August, 1905, attained 

 the perfect state on February 12th, 1906. — Arthur J. Scollick ; 

 8, Mayfield Eoad, Merton Park, Wimbledon. 



A Note on Chrysophanus alciphron ab. intermedia (Stephanelli). — 

 Under remarks (Wheeler's ' Butterflies,' p. 16) of a tendency m var. 

 gordins to be larger and brighter on the south side of Alps than in the 

 Rhone Valley, mention is made of a female taken by me at Varzo, of 

 which the hind wings are suffused with black, and to a fine black 

 female of Mr. Eowland-Brown's from Val Malenco. I have lately had 

 an opportunity of seeing this latter, and it is practically the same 

 variety as mine from Varzo. Hitherto I had supposed that it was un- 

 named. But on reference to Drs. Staudinger and Rebel's catalogue the 

 other day, I found ab. female intermedia, Stephanelli, thus described : 

 " Al. ant. disco fulvo, al. post, ut in Alciphron.''' This exactly agrees 

 with the above varieties, and most curiously with what Mr. Wheeler 

 says, speaking of my Varzo specimen, " This closely resembles a female 

 in the Geneva Museum from Hyeres, marked Alciphron." No doubt 

 this, too, is ab. intermedia. I therefore subjected all my Varzo and 

 Iselle ffordius (?) to a strict examination, and find that of four other 

 females two at least are very much darker and more suffused with black 

 on the secondaries than any specimens from the Rhone Valley ; while 

 the males, of which I have preserved seven, show a tendency to a very 

 general suffusion of purple, after the manner of alciphron. One speci- 

 men has the primaries entirely a rich purple-brown, with the black 

 spots showing through, as in type alciphron, only the spots are large 

 as in gordins. Others approximate more or less this coloration. This 

 extreme specimen, then, I take to be ab. intermedia, male, and that this 

 aberration is not confined to the female sex. Two males from Val 

 Anzasca resemble these Italian Simplon forms. Staudinger gives 

 Central Italy as the locality for ab. intermedia. — Frank E. Lowe. 



The Insect Fauna or Sussex. — In the ' Victoria History of the 

 Counties of England,' Sussex, vol. i., is an account of the insects of 

 the county. This comprises lists of all orders, occupies 128 pages, and 

 is a valuable addition to these county lists. Mr. Herbert Goss is editor 

 of this division of the work, and other well-known entomologists have 

 compiled or otherwise assisted in the preparation of the lists as 

 follows : — Orthoptera (3 pp.), Mr. Malcolm Burr. Neuroptera (5 pp.), 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas. Hymenoptera Phytophaga, Tenthredinids, Cyni- 

 pidse, Bracouidae, and Chrysididae (10 pp.), Rev. E. Bloomfield. Ento- 

 mojihaga (2 pp. i, Mr. Claude Morley. Hymenoptera Aciileata (6 pp.), 

 Mr. E. Saunders. Coleoptera (28 pp.). Rev. Canon Fowler. Lepi- 



