94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, a collection of insects made in the Madeira and 

 Canary Islands in February, March, and April, 1896, he gave an 

 account of his visit to tlie Islands and of the collection. He visited 

 Funchal, Madeira ; Orotava, Teneriffe ; and Las Palmas, Grand 

 Canary; Orotava being the best collectino: ground. He found Anuaia 

 pli'.rippici and A. chri/sippus very plentifully, especially the former, in 

 Grand Canary ; Vancssti callirho'e was also common in Grand Canary ; 

 V. ranlui and V. Imntera both occurred ; Gonuptcnjx. deopatra was 

 common, and many others. Mr. Bethune-Baker said that the most 

 interesting species in the collection were Paranie .rlpliia from Madeira, 

 and P. xiphioidea from Grand Canary, two closely allied but distinct 

 species, peculiar to tbe Madeiras and Canaries respectively ; also 

 fA/rtr,)ui wflthiaiia, of which there were four specimens, an interesting 

 little species restricted to the Canaries. He called attention to the 

 fact tbat the (t. cleopaira from these islands differed decidedly from 

 the Mediterranean form of the species. He also showed series 

 of Pieris braxsicte, of P. wnlhistoni from Madeira, and cheirantlil from 

 Canary, and pointed out the curious fact that wolhistoni, altbough 

 nearer to the European brai^sicip. than cheirauthi is, is yet the more 

 widely divergent species ; also a series of Li/cana wehbiaiHi, and of 

 Anthocliar'iH charlonin from Algeria, a species which he said also 

 occurred in the Canaries. Mr. Kenrick said that tbe most curious 

 feature in the Canary Islands fauna was the occurrence of American 

 forms ; V. hiintera occurred only in the Canaries and America ; and 

 A. plexippiat, which is common in the Canaries, is an American 

 species. Mr. Bethune-Baker said that in working at the moths he 

 noticed American affinities in several groups, particularly in the genus 

 Phlixjophorn, wbich was much more closely allied to American tban 

 to European forms. By Mr. Bradley, for Mr. J. W. Moore, a remark- 

 able variety of Arctia caia, bred from a lot of larv;e collected locally 

 and reared under natural conditions ; the markings were all in their 

 usual positions and shapes, but the whole insect was of a rich dark 

 brown, the markings on the under wings showing black, and on the 

 upper wings a lighter brown. By Mr. .J. T. Fountain, McUtaa artemis 

 from Umberslade ; a bleached specimen of Kpinepliele ianira from 

 Wyre Forest ; a specimen of F. io, from Kniver Edge, the two sides of 

 which were unequal in size ; a specimen of T^ ataUinta with white 

 spots in red bands, from Bournemouth, and another from Himley, 

 near Dudley, with the red bands broken ; a specimen of Apatnra iris 

 in which the bands of the posterior wings on the upper side were 

 small and bent inwards, and on the under side only shown as paler 

 bars, not white ones ; the under sides, too, were very sligbtly marbled, 

 nearly plain, with less white on the fore wings than usual ; the purple 

 iridescence on upper sides could be seen on all wings at once, not on 

 only one side at a time as usual. By Mr. W. Bowater, a lot of butter- 

 flies, unnamed, collected about 500 miles up the Niger river. Mr. 

 Kenrick said tbat one Pipiis seemed to be new to him. By Mr. H. 

 Taylor, Lnperina cespitis from Yardley, Kiitinnia erosaria from Wyre 

 Forest, 'ittlwa subtntut from Wyre, and CirrhceJia xemwpelina taken 

 this autumn at Steckford. Bv Mr. Bickley, C. xerampelinK from 

 Steekford. By Mr. C. W. Wynn, Gortijna ftdvaijo from Sutton, 

 Xcuronia popularis from Yardley, Ojwima'Grace'affo-{-a. hred series from 



