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But his views are not shared by Herrich-Schaeffer, who in the 

 preceding or same year once more restores Epiphron to the 

 rank of a species separate from Cassiope ; while G. H. Hey den - 

 reich (' Syst. Yerz. Europ. Schmett.,' second edition) in 1846 not 

 only separates them, but attributes Enoch's name of Epiphron 

 to Fabricius. 



(To be continued.) 



SOME NOTES ON THE COLLECTION OF BRITISH 



MACRO-LEPIDOPTEEA IN THE HOPE DEPARTMENT 



OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. 



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



(Continued from p. 177.) 



LYC.ENID/E. 



Zeplujrus hehd/e. — A long and fine series chiefly from Devon, 

 Hants and Oxford, in all about 80, with only one remarkable 

 aberration. This is a male specimen from the Spilsbury Collec- 

 tion in which the white line on underside of the fore wing is 

 entirely wanting, as is also the outer white line of the hind wing. 

 It has no data. 



Z. quercus. — A fine series of upwards of 60, mostly bred 

 chieflj' from Devon, Hants and the New Forest. There are two 

 indications of aberration, and both seem to be pathological. One 

 is a <? bred by myself in the New Forest, and the other, unlabelled, 

 from the Meldola Collection. In both the aberration is in one of 

 the hind wings. A large proportion of the normally blue scales are 

 white, giving a rubbed appearance, but a lens shows that this is 

 not the case. In the New Forest specimen the aberration is on 

 the right side, in the other on the left. In both specimens the 

 shape of the afi'ected wing is abnormal, the edge of the wing from 

 the angle to the tail being straight instead of curved. 



Thecla pruni. — Thirty specimens, labelled, from Northants, 

 Huntingdon and Oxford. Twenty, unlabelled, from the Hope, 

 Spilsbury and other Collections. 



T. w-album. — A series of 45. Thirty, with data, from several 

 localities. 



Callophri/s ruhi. — A long series of upwards of 100. One under- 

 side from Cumberland, with a row of white spots in the fore as 

 well as in the hind wings. Another has the underside altogether 

 spotless ; this is from Cornwall. 



Clirysophanus diispar. — A very fine series of 27 — 14 male, 

 13 female. Most of them are in perfect condition, even with 

 respect to antennae. With them are two ichneumons, labelled by 

 Prof. Westwood as " ichneumons of C. dispar/' The species has 

 not yet been determined. 



C. virgaurece. — A specimen, not in very good condition, 

 from the Hope Collection, is the one referred to in Humphreys 



