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less in size than Lyccena icarus. They appeared confined to a 

 small spot just by the rifle-butts ; for although we saw hundreds 

 on the downs outside this particular spot, they were all of the 

 normal size. Can anyone explain this phenomenon ? — A. W. 

 Gush; Mayfield, Hollington Park, St. Leonard's-on-Sea. 



LYCiENA coRYDON, VARIETIES. — It is more than twenty years 

 since I have had the opportunity of working for Lycana corydon 

 inland, and I was much pleased when my brother, Mr. T. H. 

 Briggs, on the 2nd August, came across the species in the utmost 

 profusion at an inland locality in one of the metropolitan 

 counties. I am thus vague, as it seems now to be the fashion to 

 conceal one's localities for common species. Amongst those he 

 took was a most singular variety of the under side, the fore wings 

 being grey, nicely streaked ; hind wings of the obsolete type, with 

 the usual orange ocelli elongated, blind, and tawny. On August 

 4th my eldest nephew took a very similar variety, and we secured 

 a fine series of dwarf specimens and some partially obsolete 

 varieties. On August 23rd, at the same place, I took a gynandro- 

 morphous specimen, and my youngest nephew the finest obsolete 

 variety I have ever seen, which, through a violation of one or two 

 of the commandments, is now in my cabinet. On Sept. 8th they 

 were going over, but many were in brilliant condition, just out. 

 Lyc(B7ia hellargus, L. astrarche, and L. medon were flying merrily 

 with them, but without any attempt at illicit intercourse, so far 

 as we observed, thus confirming all my previous experience. 

 I think, in face of the records in the ' Entomologist,' that 

 Mr. South should now tell us who are the entomologists of much 

 experience who maintain (Entom. 81) that L. corydon has run 

 its course before the second brood of L. bellargus appears, so 

 that we may know in wliat part of England their experience was 

 obtained. — C. A. Briggs; 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Sept. 13. 



London Lepidoptera. — Mr. Percy Rendall's interesting notes 

 on Lepidoptera in London (Entom. lyS) induced me to note the 

 varieties of Diurni observed in a London garden during August 

 of this year. While reading on a garden-seat in a plot of ground 

 belonging to one of the houses in Highbury Place, I observed 

 personally — Vanessa io (several), V. urtiae (several), Lyccena 

 icarus (several), Polyommatus phlceas (one only), Pararge meg<Bra 

 (one only), Pieris hrassicce (swarms), P. rap<B (very plentiful, but 



