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crown your efforts. With regard to the position of pinastri on the 

 trunk, I found one three feet from the ground, one nineteen feet from 

 the ground, and the rest were nearly all about nine feet from the 

 ground. With two exceptions they all were on the sunny side of the 

 trunk, and received the full glare and heat of the sun. I worked 

 from Aldeburgh, which was my headquarters, to Thorpness, Leiston, 

 Saxmundham, Wickham Market, etc., but undoubtedly the large 

 woods near to Saxmundham are the stronghold of the moth. There 

 was very little variation in the markings, but one male was of a fine 

 reddish-chocolate tint. — E. Crisp ; " Heathcote," Heathfield, Sussex. 

 Hyloicus pinastri in Suffolk. — On September 19th my 

 children found a larva of the Pine Hawk moth, nearly full grown, 

 feeding on a pine tree on Hazelwood Common, near Aldeburgh. I 

 do not know whether this is a capture of any special interest but am 

 writing you in case it should be. — H. M. Sillar ; 11, Egerton 

 Gardens,' Hendon, N.W. 4, September 23rd, 1919. 



Crocallis elinguaria, form signatipennis. — Under the descrip- 

 tion of this form (' Entomologist,' October, 1919, p. 227), referring to 

 the sharp point of the transverse band at the inner margin, we read— 

 " One fails to find reference to any marked variation in the shape of 

 the transverse band." I shall be surprised if it turns out that this 

 form is not well known to lepidopterists throughout the country. 

 Here, I believe, it is fairly common ; at any rate, out of the eleven 

 Huddersfield specimens in my series, two are of the form, and two 

 others as near it as possible, the united cross-lines all but forming a 

 sharp point at the inner margin. One of my specimens is figured in 

 Barrett's ' Lepidoptera of the British Islands,' vol. vii, pi. ccxciii, 

 fig. 1 g. Here we have never regarded the form as much out of the 

 ordinary. But the ground-colour of the wings in my specimens is 

 normal ; the only one I have with a decidedly dark buff ground-colour 

 was bred from the only larva of the species I brought away from 

 Eannoch many years ago, and in it the band is of the more usual shape. 

 —Geo. T. Porritt : Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield, October 8th, 1919. 



[Since writing the foregoing I find that a very fine specimen of the 

 form, taken by the late Mr. John Grassham, presumably at Leeds, is 

 figured in Mosley's ' Varieties of British Lepidoptera ' on the plate 

 of C. elinguaria at fig. 5. In this figure the resemblance of the 

 shape of the band to the head and Ijill of a bird is still more pro- 

 nounced than in the Delamere specimen. It maybe that the form is 

 more common in the northern than the southern counties. — G. T. P.] 



Notes on Lepidoptera around Alton, Hants. — Limenitis 

 sibylla has undoubtedly increased and spread widely of late. It is 

 an insect noticed by non-entomological country-lovers, and though it 

 abounds now in Alice Holt, they tell me it was not so a few 

 years ago. Apart from the Holt, I myself noted it near Tilford, in 

 woods near Alton, on Bramdean Common, and it was reported near 

 xAlresford. First seen June 21st. Dryas paphia was common in parts 

 of the Holt, where I took a good var. valezina and a worn specimen 

 with the black spots expanded into blotches. On September 6th 

 I found numerous Zephijrus hetulcB on bramble blossom about 4 p.m. 

 (summer time), but they were worn, the males hopelessly so. I took 



