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which vary in the direction of melanism when occurring in the 

 North of England and Scotland, observes that " on the contrary, 

 there are a few species which become paler the further we 

 proceed north." As instances of this he cites Fidonia {Bupalus) 

 [ly'miaria) and Cidaria corylata. To these two species I would add 

 Coenonympha typhon (davus), the southern or English form of 

 which is, in my experience, a much darker insect, both on the 

 upper and under sides, than the northern or Scotch form, 

 although the latter frequently occurs at a great elevation on 

 the mountains. I have collected a long series of this species 

 in Lancashire and Westmoreland, at an elevation of not more 

 than four or five feet above the sea-level, which consists 

 entirely of da7'k specimens, whereas the specimens I have 

 received from Perthshire and other Scotch counties — many of 

 which were, I believe, taken at a great elevation above the 

 sea level — are all very light in colour, both on the upper and 

 under sides ; and the late Henry Doubleday possessed two 

 specimens of C. typhon from the Orkneys which were almost 

 white. — Herbert Goss ; Surbiton Hill, March, 1885. 



Lepidoptera in County Cork. — On the 20th of June last 

 year I captured a specimen of Melitcea artemis on the top of a 

 hill at least 300 feet above the sea-level near here. I had never 

 seen the insect before, and was much surprised at meeting with 

 it at such an altitude, for I always thought it a marsh butterfly. 

 On the 22nd another was taken in the middle of the city of 

 Cork, and on the 25th I took the third at least ten miles from 

 the place where I caught the first. In the middle of August, 

 about the 20th, I caught two specimens of Golias edusa, and saw 

 two others, but seeing and catching this insect are not always 

 the same operation. Three others were afterwards observed, all 

 of which were males. Beyond M. artemis, Argynnis papliia is 

 our only other Fritillary here, and that species is wonderfully 

 common. Of other insects worth mentioning, I may enumerate 

 Satyrus semele, Macroglossa stellatarum, Procris ino, and 

 Geometra papilionaria. In the January number Mr. Sang 

 records as exceptional a female Hepialus humidi taken during 

 the end of August. The grass about our house teemed with 

 these and with H. lupidinus last year, and between August 20th 

 and September 9th I saw no less than five of the former moth. — 

 Harry C. Sandford ; Bellevue Park, Military Road, Cork. 



