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which is written its ancient history, must be looked upon as 

 poorly written, and with whole pages lost ; so that we are left to 

 look to Embryology for light upon the subject ; and it is generally 

 admitted that the structure of the embryo and its developmental 

 change — either within or without the egg — indicate as truly the 

 course of organic development in ancient times, as the rocks and 

 their sequence teach us the past history of the earth itself.* 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN JuNE. — Yesterday, at Effingham, in company 

 with Mr. S. J. Capper and Mr. H. Vaughan, I saw a specimen of 

 CoUas edusa, and trust it may be a precursor of another edusa 

 season. — T. H. Briggs ; Surrey House, Leatherhead, June 20. 



Lyc.ena Varieties or Hybrids in Kent.— It may perhaps be 

 of interest to record the capture by my boys and myself, during 

 the present month, of pale varieties or hybrids similar to those 

 taken in June last year. We have secured very perfect examples 

 of both male and female forms ; all were taken on the same 

 ground as those last season, but they appeared to be more dis- 

 tributed. As Mr. South's suggestion in the April number of this 

 year's 'Entomologist' (p. 79), that "there may be similar forms 

 in other cabinets," has elicited no response, I can only suppose 

 that the specimens taken by us are peculiar to this spot. 

 Whether they are a distinct species, simple vars. of L. hellargus, 

 or hybrids between that species and icarus, I am unable to deter- 

 mine, but most probably the latter; and if so, unions between 

 the two species must be a tolerably common event here ; but why 

 not elsewhere also ? I have never myself met with anything at 

 all like these pale varieties, although I have collected for many 

 years ; but they may have been in existence at this spot long 

 prior to last season, which was the first in which I worked for 

 hellargus in this particular locality. I shall hope to take notice 

 of the exact time of the first emergence of second brood of 

 hellargus and the continuance of corydon, and supply you with a 

 further note on this mutter. I would only now say that the 

 suggestion made to Mr. South by " entomologists who have had 



* Abiidgod liom Trans. Leicester Lit. and Phil. yoc. 



