916 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 
and one female—are very beautiful examples of the anceolate var.: the 
males are exceptionally rich in colour, and the large lanceolate markings 
stand out in bold relief on the dark colouring of the under surface. The 
female is the grandest example I have seen, the largest marking measuring 
In diameter a quarter of an inch. The space in normal specimens between 
the second and third spots on the secondaries is in this individual occupied 
by a circular sprinkling of yellow scales forming an additional spot, thereby 
completing the band ; the spots on the primaries are also connected. The 
specimen is a most striking and beautiful varietv, the markings even sur- 
passing in magnitude those of the exceptionally large female I captured in 
the Forest in 1890, which T then believed to be the finest lanceolate var. : 
but that specimen is now eclipsed by the example which emerged on the 
13th Julv last. The two males emerged on the 5th and 6th respectively. 
All three have the markings on the upper side lanceolate in form and clearly 
defined. I think it must be an unusual thing to obtain three such rich 
vars. out of so small a number as seven specimens, and can only account 
for it by supposing that probably the markings of the male parent were of 
the same lanceolate type. — F. W. Fronawe ; 9, Dornton Road, Balham, 
S.W., August, 1892. 
VARIETY OF SESIA FORMICIFORMIS.—I bred, on the 26th June last, a 
curious but beautiful var. of 8. formiciformis. The usual deep red colouring 
of the species, viz., the apical portion of the wings and abdominal band 
being in this specimen replaced by a metallic bronze-gold, in no way 
approaching a red or orange, quite distinct in colour, and giving the 
insect a delicate, refined appearance. It is a male.—F. W. Frouawx; 
August, 1892. 
Xantuic Variety oF Evucuenta sAcopke.—A beautiful yellow, or, 
more correctly, dull orange, specimen of this moth was captured by my 
voung friend and neighbour Edgar H. Purchase, in their garden on May 
21st. From the limpness of the wings and perfect condition of the cilia, it 
had apparently only just left the pupa. It forms a good acquisition to my 
cabinet. It is a female, and I was almost inclined to try for eggs. Fearing, 
however, damage to the insect. I determined not to hazard the experiment. 
—JosepH ANDERSON, JuN.; Chichester. 
PstLURA MONACHA var. EREMITA, Ochs.—Last year I received, through 
Mr. Edmunds, of Windsor, larve of P. monacha from Fontainebleau, and 
from these I bred several male specimens of the eremita form. With one 
or two exceptions, in which the hind wings were fuscous, all the female 
specimens reared from these larvae were of the typical monacha form. <A 
few males were intermediate between the type and var. eremita, and others 
were of the typical coloration, but the black waved lines on the middle third 
of the fore wing were more or less confluent. A number of ova were 
deposited in clusters about the cage in which the moths emerged, and from 
these IT am now breeding imagines. So far the variation exhibited is 
exactly identical with that to which I have referred as occurring last year. 
The larve in 1891 were fed on apple and hawthorn principally, but oak 
was given occasionally ; this year the larve were supplied with oak only.— 
Ricnarp Sourn; Aug. 20, 1892. 
Nore on CrpaRIA surFuMATA. — In my note on this species (Entom. 
xxiv. 171-2), I mentioned that I had pupe from three pairs of moths. 
