206 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
NOTES FROM THE NEW FOREST. 
By J. Jenner Weire, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
I vistrep the New Forest on 28rd July, and remained 
at Brockenhurst until 9th August. Except during the first 
three days the weather was very wet, and many parts became 
swamps. 
Argynnis Paphia.—This species was, as usual, abundant, but 
much earlier in its appearance than last year; the first seen 
in 1879 was on 19th July, but on 28rd of that month this year 
most of the males were already worn. The variety Valezina was 
out in fair proportion; one was seen perfectly hermaphrodite, 
the wings on one side being of the normal colour of the male. 
Charles Gulliver took a very singular hermaphrodite; the 
two left wings were male, and the right female; but the upper 
edge of the primary wing on the latter side was of the usual 
tawny colour, and one-third of the secondary wing was so coloured ; 
so that in one insect both gynandromorphism and dimorphism 
existed. I do not remember ever to have met with so remarkable 
acase. I took a female with a greenish spot on each of the lower 
wings, and one male with a well-defined white spot on each wing, 
the spots on the lower wings being somewhat greenish. I observed 
several females depositing their eggs at some distance from the 
ground under the lichens growing on the trunks of the oaks, and 
proved the fact by finding the egg; the young must in these 
cases often have to travel down the stem ten feet or more before 
they could reach their food, the leaves of Viola canina. ‘The 
appearance yearly of this insect with white spots on the wings is 
worthy of remark. Last year I was equally fortunate in taking 
specimens so coloured. 
Vanessa Io.—Of this species I saw several with a minute blue 
spot on the secondary wings between the ocellus and the inner 
edge of the wing. 
Apatura Iris—This insect has been less rare than usual; 
a female was taken by myself from a beech tree ; Charles Gulliver 
took six, and I heard of and saw others. One taken by Gulliver 
had settled on his cottage, and at Lady Cross a fine male was 
taken from the door-step. 
Lithosia quadra.—Last year this insect was confined mostly 
