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the line which runs sinuously across the wing towards the base 

 of the third space ; bright light silvery grey, having very light 

 faint irrorated patches, darkest near the margin, which has two 

 rows of well-defined streaks (not dots) at the inner edge of the 

 cilia, which is light coloured and long. Hind wings light silvery 

 grey. General form rather broad. This species is intermediate 

 between S. ingratella, Zell., and S. atomalis, Dbl. It sits 

 triangularly, and may be known from any other of the genus 

 when at rest by the peculiarly distinct light first space, standing 

 out as a white dot on the tree the insect is resting on. Imago 

 appears July and August. 



Spring Bank, Preston, August 26, 1881. 



[A figure of this species will be given in the November, 

 or an early, ' Entomologist,' in a plate with other new British 

 Lepidoptera. — Ed.] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c.. 



Varieties of Argynnis Paphia in the New Forest. — 

 Having just returned from the New Forest, I think it may be of 

 some interest to the i^eaders of the ' Entomologist' to record some 

 varieties of Argynnis Paphia which I had the fortune to take. 

 The variet}' Valezina was common, but very few in good condition. 

 I was very anxious to take this variety in copula, in order to see 

 if there was a corresponding variety of the male; but although 

 the ordinary t^q^e of A. Paphia were to be seen in great numbers 

 coupled, yet I did not even see a male following Valezina. Is 

 this variety sterile ? Secondly, a variety of the male : — The upper 

 surface like the type, but on the lower surface the silver streak 

 nearest the base is a mere spot, and the next silver streak is 

 entirely absent. The third variety' was of the male : — The mark- 

 ings are typical, except that each wing has a pale straw-coloured 

 patch ; that on the fore wing occupies a space immediately behind 

 the third black spot in the second submarginal row, and reaches 

 onwards between the nervures to the next black spot ; on the hind 

 wing the pale spot occupies a space between the fifth gibbous spot 

 and the median black line, enclosing the fourth round spot ; the 

 pale spots are visible on the u'lder surfnce, but are not so distinct 

 as on the upper. — H. H. Corbett; Efivenoak, Cheadle Hulme, 

 Stockport, August 17, 1881. 



