THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XIV.] JANUAKY, 1881. [No. 212. 



VARIETY OF MELANIPPE HASTATA. 



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MeLANIPPE HASTATA, VaV. 



The above very pretty variety of Melan'qJiJe hastata was taken 



in June, 1880, by Mr. William Prest, of York, while he was 



collecting in Edlington Wood, near Doncaster. At the same 



time Mr. Prest captured a long series of the normal type of this 



insect, but no other variety. 



John T. Carrington. 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF NATAL. 

 By William D. Gooch, C.E. 

 (Continued from vol. xiii., p. 276.) 



The larvse of the Acnsidce in Natal seem to have a tendency 

 to gregarious habits, especially Cynthia and Petrcea. Violarum 

 also generally occurs numerously on any food-plant which is 

 frequented by it. The young of Cynthia are common on a woolly- 

 leaved Lamium, of which they eat away the under side of the 

 leaf, curling it over, and enveloping it with silk threads, in which 

 the exuviae and cast-skins get entangled. I have counted over 

 eighty specimens in one brood. 



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