THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 160.] OCTOBER, MDCCCLXXVI. [Pxuce 6d, 



Ephyra pendularia, var. By Frederick Bond, Esq., F.Z.S. 



Ephyea pendulaeia, var. 



This very beautiful variety of Ephyra pendularia was exhi- 

 bited by Mr. Milleratthe meetingoftheEntomological Society, 

 held on the 7lh of October, 18(51, and was said to have been 

 bred from a larva found near London, feeding on the exterior 

 of the bedeguar, or mossy gall of the rose. This was 

 probably a mistake, the larva having very likely fallen from 

 a birch tree. I understood at the time that the larva was 

 never seen actually feeding on the bedeguar. The moth is 

 now in my collection. 



Frederick Bond. 



Staines, Middlesex, September 8, 187 0. 



Remarks on Colias Edusa and Colias Hyale. 

 By J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Although I have collected the Lepidoptera of this 

 country for at least thirty -six years 1 have never had oppor- 

 tunities for observing the habits of our two species of the 

 genus Colias in England ; but this summer having been 

 unusually hot, I was induced lo make a journey to my native 

 town, Lewes, more particularly in hope that they might be 

 plentiful ; and I devoted the greater part of the month of 

 August mainly to observing and capturing the two species in 

 question. 



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