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measuring about two inches across the wings. It is brown, 

 speckled all over with white, giving it, as has been frequently 

 observed, some resemblance to a guinea-fowl. It is said to differ 

 in tint, according to the colour of the soil on which it occurs. 



Cymothoe is another African genus, including species expand- 

 ing from two to four inches. The males are generally of a buff 

 colour, deepening in some species into rich tawny or almost 

 fulvous ; the females are black, with more or less extended white 

 markings. In C. Sangaris and Uselda, however, the males are of 

 a deep blood-red colour ; the female of the latter is black, 

 suffused with orange towards the base, and with zigzag whitish 

 markings towards the outside of the wings. 



^ferica includes smaller species, likewise all African, generally 

 expanding under two inches. The males are blue or fulvous, with 

 rows of brown spots, more or less connected into bands ; the 

 females are brown, with buff markings. In A. Cupcwia, however, 

 the male is black, with three yellow spots across the tip of the 

 fore wing, and a broad yellow band on the hind wings ; in the 

 female these markings are white. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAs Edusa AT Ely. — As very few specimens of this 

 butterfly were recorded last autumn, your readers may be 

 interested to learn that I captured one on June 25th this year, 

 quite close to Ely. From the damaged state of its wings it 

 appears to be a hybernated individual. It is a male, but in 

 expanse of wings considerably beyond the average of that sex. I 

 am sure that I shall not be alone in expressing a hope that it may 

 only be the precursor of many autumnal representatives of this 

 species. — Harold Harris; King's School, Ely, June 25, 1882. 



Apatura Iris in Northampton. — I found on June 1st, at 

 Yardley Chase, two larvae of Apatura Iris, which turned to pupae on 

 June 15th and 16th. — F. J. Rasell ; 30, Argyle Street, St. James' 

 End, Northampton, June 22, 1882. 



Hesperia paniscus at Barnwell Wold. — In reference to 

 3'our remarks in the 'Entomologist' for June on the disappear- 

 ance of Hesperia paniscus from Barnwell Wold, I may state that 



