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The perfect insect varies very much indeed. The typical form 
is almost white, some pure white, without a mark on the wings 
save the button-like scales ; others are grey, with a darker central 
grey band. ‘'T'wo or three have the usual lines of the superior 
wings, but no grey shading, the strongest marking generally being 
the line next to and parallel with the hind margin. 
3, Lewisham Road, Greenwich, Jan. 1, 1880. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, é&c. 
REOCCURRENCE OF CHRYSOPHANUS VIRGAUREA IN ENGLAND.— 
On August 26th, 1878, during my stay at Cromer, I had the good 
fortune to catch a female specimen of Chrysophanus virgaurea. 
At first I took it to be a variety of Polyommatus phleas ; and it 
was not till last Easter, when I saw the C. virgaurea figured in _ 
Mr. Kirby’s ‘European Butterflies and Moths,’ that I had any 
idea what a prize I had secured. I was not able, however, to 
obtain any decisive judgment as to its true character, until I had 
the opportunity a few days ago of consulting Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 
of the British Museum. After a careful examination Mr. Water- 
house pronounced it to be an undoubted female specimen of 
Chrysophanus virgaurea. Myr. Kirby says in his book that 
“although there seems little reason to doubt that it formerly 
inhabited this country, it has in all probability been long extinct.” 
Iam informed that since Doubleday’s Catalogue of 1850 it has 
been altogether excluded from the lists of British butterflies. — 
C. H. Caren Cure; St. George’s Rectory, 15, Grosvenor 
Street, W., December 31, 1879. 
[The specimen above referred to, although a pale variety, is 
undoubtedly Chrysophanus virgaurea, and has the characteristic 
white line on the under side of the posterior wings well marked. 
Cuas. O. WATERHOUSE.] 
LIFE-HISTORY OF PERONEA PERMUTANA.—LHegs laid in small 
patches on the leaves and stems of Rosa spinosissima, &c., in 
August and September. Larva amongst bound-together leaves of 
Rosa spinosissima, on which plant it feeds, generally feeding upon 
lateral shoots. In form it is slightly appressed, attenuate to 
anus from the 9th segment. Size three-eighths of an inch. The 
colour is dull yellowish drab, inclining to olive. Head bright, 
light-coloured, rather narrow; dorsal region rather darker than 
the general colour of the creature. Anal plate horn-like, bright ; 
