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specimen, evidently benumbed by the cold, ina street in Green- 
wich on October 12th. In ‘Land and Water’ there is only one 
record of a capture this season, by Mr. R. Marken, at Combe, near 
Honiton, Devon. In ‘Science Gossip’ for October, Mr. Collis 
Willmott gives a lively account of seeing a couple of Vanessa 
Antiopa in copula while flying through the air, but as he gives 
neither date nor locality the record may refer to another season. 
—Joun T. Carrineton; October 22, 1880. 
Tuecita W-aLbum.—This butterfly appeared in plenty in one 
particular spot in July, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877; and in 1875 it 
literally swarmed on some elm trees. In 1878, 1879 and 1880 it 
has totally disappeared. This instance proves that an insect will 
disappear from other causes than slaughter.—W. H. Scort; 
Eastwood Villas, Humberstone Road, Leicester. 
Avatura Iris var. Inta.—While collecting in Abbot’s Wood, 
Sussex, during the last week in July, I captured a variety of Iris 
with the usual white band on the under wings absent, and the 
spots on the upper wings smaller, than in the normal type. 
Unfortunately the specimen was very much shattered, so much 
so as to be worthless. A. Jris was plentiful, but difficult to 
obtain, owing to the dense undergrowth. ‘Three specimens only 
fell to my share, all females. Other butterflies were not so 
common as usual.—J. A. Cooper; 82, Bingfield Street, Barnes- 
bury, N. 
VARIETY OF Potyommatus Puuaas.—I recently captured near 
Shanklin a variety of P. Phileas, with the copper colouring super- 
seded by silvery white.—J. H. Lrrcu; Shanklin, Oct. 9, 1880. 
Pyrametis Huntrra.—Referring to Mr. P. H. Gosse’s “ Notes 
on the Butterflies of Paraguay, &c.” (Entom. xiii. 198), I would 
remark that Pyrameis Huntera (the scarce painted lady of this 
country) is not uncommon in Canada, where several years since I 
took some very fine specimens of this exquisitely marked insect on 
clover (Trifolium), in a field near the’ plains of Abraham, 
Quebec, the site of the famous battle between Wolfe and 
Montcalm. I also captured similar specimens in the suburbs of 
Montreal, on cotton thistle (Onopordum acanthiwm), and smaller 
and more soberly coloured specimens (probably of the second 
brood) on a grassy bank at the base of Mount Royal, on the 
