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as a form of ambigqualis, and it is also so treated in Staudinger’s 
calalogue. Mr.J. C. Hayward has been good enough to send me for 
inspection his series of 14 specimens of wlmella, taken on trunks 
of wych-elm at Repton, where he finds it very local; it appears in 
July after ambigualis is over. This excellent material has enabled 
me to ascertain that wlmella is without doubt a good species. The 
character most easily apprehended is in the two posterior cloudy 
white lines (second and subterminal) of the fore wings, which in 
ulmella are confluent or close together throughout, whilst in 
ambigualis they are separated by considerable spaces of ground- 
colour towards costa and below middle. Additional distinctions of 
ulmella are the rather smaller size, the more strongly and evenly 
curved first line, the different form of the second line (which in 
ambigualis makes a characteristic angle above middle, whilst in 
ulmella it is evenly rounded at this point), and the more whitish (less 
grey) hind wings. Fortified with this knowledge I was able to detect 
a specimen of ulmella in my series of ambiqualis, taken by myself at 
Ramsbury on July 10th, 1887, whereas my latest date for ambzqualis 
is July 2nd. The insect will therefore probably be found widely 
distributed but local. I hope that Mr. Hayward will now shortly 
discover the larva.—Epwarp Meyrick; Thornhanger, Marlborough, 
January 5th, 1921. 
Nore oN Breton EPINEPHELE JURTINA.—I find that in my paper 
on “August Butterflies at Lannion” (‘ Entom.,’ vol. li, p. 277) I 
omitted to record an ab. of H. jurtina, 9, which approached the 
South Huropean form hispulla. The fore wings with the exception 
of the outer margin were completely fulvous, the bases being tinged 
with brownish; there was also a distinct fulvous band on the hind 
wings. I took the insect at Trestrignel, August 6th, 1920. H.7urtina 
ab. tancta, Blackie, is practically speaking synonymous with ab. alba, 
Blackie. I therefore wish to sink the former name.—Joun EH. H. 
BuacxiE ; The Vicarage, Windsor. 
LAMPROPTERYX (CIDARIA) OTREGIATA IN SouTH DEVONSHIRE.— 
I think I ought to record the capture of Cidaria otregiata, second 
brood, which has been kindly identified for me by the Rey. J. W. 
Metcalf, in a locality near Dawlish in South Devon, in August, 1920.— 
A. R. Haywarp; Mount Radford, Misterton, S.O., Somerset. 
Metanic EUPITHECIA LARICIATA FROM CHESHIRE.—Last May I 
bred a short serres of H. lariciata from larve I had beaten in 1919 
from a small fir wood in which there are a few larches. Three of 
them were pure melanic specimens similar to those occurring at 
Sutton Coldfield. Last August I again beat a few larve (they are 
far from common), and hope to breed the melanic form again this 
year. The wood is about half a mile from Alderley Edge.—B. H. 
CraBTREE; Holly Bank, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, January 3rd, 1920. 
ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA, SECOND Broop.—I took a ¢ flying in a 
thick fog at Barnes on the morningtof October 21st, and saw another 
at the same place on October 28th. On the latter morning at 
Putney I found larve in all stages, hibernating to full-fed.— 
H. Worstry Woop ; 31, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W. 
