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assimilate with the seeds: green ones npon green unripe 

 seeds, and the red ones upon the purple ripe seeds. — Williani 

 Prest ; 13, Holgate Road, York, September 16, 1872. 



Variety of C. Xerampelina. — On the 22nd of August I 

 had the pleasure of taking a very fine variety of Xerampelina : 

 the ground colour, instead of being yellow, is of a dull 

 coppery red, the stigmata darker, and the lines forming the 

 central fascia pale bright yellow. It is identical w^ith speci- 

 mens from the Isle of Man, now in the possession of Mr. E. 

 Birchall. — William Prest. 



[I have this variety, and find it described in Guenee, 

 vol. V. p. 402. — Echvard Netvman.l 



Chorlodes Bondii and its Food-plant. — The addition of 

 the date of Mr. Poulton's capture of this species (Entom. vi. 

 191), would render his note more valuable. What does he 

 intend by wild rlucbarb ? The rhubarb so commonly culti- 

 vated is not a British plant, though a straggler may now and 

 then be seen growing apparently wild. Is it not the buck- 

 wheat (Fagopyrum) that he is referring to ? The yellow- 

 flowered plant described is probably the charlock, — at any 

 rate one of the common Crucifera3, — J. R. S. Clifford; 59, 

 Robert Street, Chelsea. 



Catocala Fraxini at Shrewsbury. — I have in my posses- 

 sion a specimen of this rare and beautiful insect, C. Fraxini, 

 which was brought to me alive by the Rev. R. Warren, the 

 Mount, Shrewsbury : it was taken by his daughters, while 

 playing on the lawn, about mid-day, on the 19th September. 

 This is the first specimen I have heard of, taken in the 

 neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. — T. Pickin ; Mount Fields^ 

 Shreivsbury. 



Catocala Fraxini near Wisbech. — On the 31st of August 

 I took, at sugar, a fine specimen of Catocala Fraxini. — G. 

 D. Armitage ; The Cottage, Tydd St. Mary, Wisbecli, Sep- 

 tember 23, 1872. 



Leucania L-Album and Catocala Fra.vini near Canter- 

 bury. — A fine specimen of L. L-Album was taken at Pine 

 Wood, Setllebourne, by Mr. E. Edney, a collector. On 

 Tuesday, the 24lh of September, I took one myself at sugar; 

 last evening, Saturday, in the same jdace, it was very windy, 

 when both were taken in the same wood, where my brother 

 took the only known specimen three years ago, which 



