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at once. On the 1st of July, the 

 imagos began to make their appear- 

 ance, and I am amply repaid for 

 my trouble in collecting so many 

 laiTse of a very common insect by 

 the beautiful varieties I have thus 

 obtained. Some of them are very 

 pale, the usual orange markings 

 being of a light buff: others, of which 

 I send you two examples, are very 

 dark, the orange bands on the wings 

 being entirely obsolete, and one of 

 them has a black margin half an 

 inch broad, an enlarged black basal 

 blotch and an entire absence of the 

 usual spots upon the wings, though 

 the body is orange with black spots 

 as in the ordinary form. I have 

 likewise bred a good variety of 

 Arctia caja, the fore wings being very 



light, and the hind wings and body 

 are of a very light orange colour, 

 instead of the usual deep red. — J. 

 Varley, Almondbury Bank, Hud- 

 dersfield. 



[We give in plate 1 a sketch of the 

 above varieties ; together with (Fig. 

 1) the normal form of the insect. 

 Fig 3 is the dark variety mentioned 

 above, and Fig. 3 is an intermediate 

 variety. — Eds.] 



I see in No. 8 of '* The Natura- 

 list" that Linaria purpurea was 

 exhibited at one of the meetings of 

 the Huddersfield NaturaHsts' So- 

 ciety. Will any member furnish 

 me with the locality for it, through 

 these columns. —James Britten. 



NOTES ON A FEW MORE BUOKINGHAMSHIEE EARITIES. 



July, 1864. 



Bi James Britten. 



Having just returned from my summer's holiday in the above-men- 

 tioned county, and mindful of a promise to lay the results of that holiday 

 before the readers of the " Naturalist," I take up my pen to attempt the 

 pleasing task. I have been staying this time at High Wycombe, a rapidly 

 increasing town, situate in a valley through which runs the little river 

 Wick, to which the town owes its name. It possesses a magnificent 

 church, of great interest to the archeeologist, but as my object was Botany 

 and not Archaeology, I did not pay so much attention to its beauties as I 



