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latHs, L., Jerusalem, 6 : ix : '19, and an unnamed species of 

 Lithophilus, Haifa, 29 : vi : '19. 



The following complete my captures of Coleoptera to the 

 early part of this year : Ilister f/r(ecas, BruL, common on Mount 

 Carmel in November and December. Trox Juspidus, Pont., a 

 few at Haifa in November. T. pedatus, Goeze, Haifa, 3 : xi : '19. 

 Aphodiiis granarius, L., Mount Carmel, November, and Chryso- 

 mela chalcites, Germ., from the same locality. Derinestes 

 vulpinus, F., and Necrobia rii/ipes, deG., Haifa, July, 1919. 

 Melyris xiersicolor, Chev., common on flowers at Haifa, July, 

 1919. Lasiodenna serricorne, F., and Me.lanotus fiiscipes, Gyl., 

 Haifa, June, 1919. Cori/na birecurva, Mars, var.. Acre, July, 

 1919. Unnamed species of Arrhaphipterus, Agrypnus and 

 Ablattaria. 



(To be continued.) 



SOME NOTES ON THE COLLECTION OF BRITISH 



MACEO-LEPIDOPTERA IN THE HOPE DEPARTMENT 



OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. 



By F. C. Woodfordb, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 157.) 



Aglais urtkce. — Upwards of 120 with several remarkable 

 aberrations. The most striking is one from the Spilsbury 

 Collection with no data. The whole of the ground-colour is 

 creamy-white. A very perfect ab. ichniisoides almost exactly 

 corresponding to the figure in Seitz was taken wild in N. Staffs, 

 July 30th, 1918. In another ab. ichnusoides taken at Parsons- 

 town, in Ireland, by the Hon. G. L. Parsons, in August, 1886, 

 the black spot of the inner margin is greatly enlarged and 

 prolonged towards the inner angle of the fore wings and the 

 outer portion of the wing is much suffused with a dark shade, 

 thus greatly reducing the red ground-colour. Another remark- 

 able specimen of the same type has the outer margin of the 

 fore wings of what can only be described as a pale mud-colour. 

 It is from the Hope Collection, and is labelled " S. Wales, 

 St. David's, 1876." In two specimens taken wild on two 

 successive days in a garden in the town of Market Drayton, by 

 Mr. H. G. F. Onions, the ground-colour is of a pale ochreous brown, 

 as are also the usually yellow spaces between the black costal 

 spots. A series of five very similar specimens, but with the 

 yellow spaces of the normal colour, was bred by Mr. P. Tautz 

 from larvae found at Chorley Wood, Rickmansworth, in 1914. 

 Possibly the pupae of these, as well as the pupae of the specimens 

 of V. io referred to further on, were subjected to abnormal 

 conditions, but the labels attached make no mention of such 



