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sitting on the glass of one of the cages, so utterly puzzled me 
that I at first thought it must be a new species. It turned 
out to be a most beautiful and striking variety of C. pusaria, 
with no white about it except on the fringes and thorax. I 
feel inclined to call the ground colour black, but I suppose it 
should rather be termed sooty. ‘The transverse lines are trace- 
able both on the primaries and secondaries. I beat the larva 
from Alnus glutinosa in the autumn of 1884. — GinBEeRr H. 
Raynor; Shenfield, Brentwood, January 16, 1886. 
VARIETY OF ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA.—I enclose an accurate 
drawing of a very beautiful variety of Abraxas grossulariata, 
female, which has just come into my possession. ‘The figure is 
the natural size. ‘The thorax and 
abdomen are orange, devoid of any 
markings whatever. The light band 
across the upper wings is dirty 
yellow. The dark markings are 
biack. The remaining colour is 
pure white. The marginal mark- 
ings are hardly visible. It will be observed that the right half 
differs from the left, the former having twelve black spots, the 
latter only eight. The band on the right upper wing is also 
broader, and differently shaped. ‘This very beautiful specimen 
was captured in August, 1885, at Combe Dingle, in this county, 
by Master F. S. Coles.—J. GreEnr; Rostrevor, Clifton. 
HYpsIPETES TRIFASCIATA NOT DOUBLE-BROODED.—In the 
Entomologist, vol. xvii, p. 322, I am made to say that H. 
trifasciata (impluviata) is double-brooded. This is a mistake, 
and I intended the remark to apply to Thera variata. I am not 
aware that H. trifasciata has a second brood.—J. B. Hopex1nson; 
Preston, Lancashire, December, 1885. 
ABSENCE OF CIDARIA RETICULATA.—I took two journeys last 
season for Cidaria reticulata, and although I made most careful 
search for the larve I found no trace of it, or, indeed, of any 
of the balsam seeds being eaten. The plant was last year in 
plenty, and remained in many instances in flower so late as the 
middle of October.—J. B. Hopexinson; Preston, Lancashire. 
NEPTICULA MYRTILLELLA FEEDING ON Potypopy.—When col- 
lecting the larve of Nepticula myrtillella, in the locality where I 
