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abundance here (Winchester) about five years ago (1868), and 

 of which individuals have occasionally been taken since, 

 especially during the past season, when they occurred in 

 some plenty. They were not merely faded specimens, as 

 some might be induced to say, because I myself have bred 

 at least one such individual, which, when just out of the 

 chrysalis, was of the yellow colour: it is also worth notice 

 that specimens occurred partly red and partly yellow. — IV, 

 A. Forbes; Culverlea, Wincliesler, March 1, 1873. 



Variety oflodis vernarin, S^c. — Another insect, which I have 

 taken here sometimes, has also puzzled me not a little. It 

 appears to be a variety of lodis vernaria, which is abundant 

 here, but the usual green of the fore wings is replaced by a 

 pale yellowish green, in which the usual markings are nearly 

 obliterated, approaching in one specimen I have to a pale 

 yellow stone-colour; the hind wings are of the usual beautiful 

 green. This, however, after all, may possibly be only a faded 

 specimen, the hind wings, which of course are protected by the 

 upper ones when at rest, having escaped fading, whilst the 

 fore wings have not. Amongst insects, which I hare taken 

 here during the past season, may be mentioned Anticlea 

 sinuata, P^pione advenaria, and Diasemia literalis, which 

 have all occurred once, either in or near Crabbe Wood. 

 Erastria fuscula and Aventia flexula have also been taken: 

 the former in the Hursley Woods; the latter, I believe, 

 in Crabbe Wood. — Id. 



Dasi/campa rnhiyinea. — I had the good fortune to take 

 three specimens of Kubiginea at sugar here last October, two 

 one night at the same tree. E. nigra and X. rhizolitha were 

 fairly common about the same time. Salellitia, Vaccinii, and 

 Spadicea, were positively a nuisance. Last season was as 

 bad as it could be, if I except the heath insects, which were 

 common enough, Cribrura being abundant in its locality. 

 The warm weather is fast bringing the larvae out of their 

 winter quarters : Villica, B. Rubi, Littoralis, and several 

 common species, being on the move. Larvae of B. Rubi that 

 I hybernated out of doors are flourishing, but those that 

 I tried to feed through the winter in-doors have died, to 

 a caterpillar. So I conclude that a warm, dry air is not 

 so good for them as roughing it, and that they have not the 

 power of spinning until alter hybernation. — [Rev.] A. C. 

 Hervey ; Pokesdown. 



