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ab. punctata with well-marked eye-spots quite common, also a nice 
ab. marginata and another subsuffusa. Many of the males were of 
the pale sky-blue colour as against the silver blue of normal years. 
The females, as in 4. bellargus, were with very little blue scaling: I 
only saw two with any amount of blue out of perhaps 100 examined. 
I found the colour a dark brown, not so dark as A. bellargus, and the 
normal blue scale replaced with light grey. This, again, I take it, is 
typical of the very hot season. Among the females ab. parisiensis was 
‘quite common, with well-marked deep black arch joining the two spots. 
Polyommatus icarus, Rott., was another species that showed a great 
‘difference in first and second broods; there was also a well-developed 
third brood in September. The first noticed was a male on May 
23rd. From the 24th onwards they were in swarms everywhere. 
The females were of a particularly dark bright blue and well scaled. 
The blue females preponderated to a large extent; I only took two all- 
brown females and three or four with a few blue scales only. Ab. 
melanotora was common and well marked, but only in females; 
among the males were many underside ab. flavescens, the yellow 
being particularly pale coloured, in one almost white. The second 
brood was well out on July 14th and continued till the end of the 
month, when they were worn. The chief thing noted about this 
brood was the almost total absence of blue females. Out of more 
than 100 examined only two were well scaled and some twelve 
with blue scales at all. All were very dark fuscous brown with well- 
marked orange lunules on upper-sides. In males ab. candzope and 
ecarimus were in about equal numbers. Another point was that in 
first brood, the underside in males was normal light coloured, in 
second was much darker, and in many cases the hind wings were a 
deep yellow-brown; I also took two male ab. melanotoxa. Female 
abs. were much as in last brood; I took two very fine dwarf ab. 
minor with well-marked melanotora. The difference in size between 
two broods was not of a marked character. The third brood 
appeared on August 30th, and was, though not so numerous as the 
other two, well marked. Both males and females of this brood were 
very small as compared to the others, nor out of some thirty females 
examined did I see a single all-brown specimen and two very deep 
all-blue females ; all the rest were with blue scales well shown. Of 
the undersides nothing of note and no especial variation. <Avicva 
medon, Esp., was not common in either brood; and the only point of 
notice was that the second brood was very small. I took one male 
of first brood with orange-red marks on upper side replaced by pale 
lemon spots. It has been a most interesting season, and in my 
opinion the most prominent is the dark colouring of females of all 
double-brooded species and absence of blue colouring in these and in 
A. corydon, thus showing the effect of a very hot, dry summer on 
colour—R. H. Rarrray (Colonel); 68, Dry Hill Park Road, 
‘Tonbridge, Kent. 
D#IOPEIA PULCHELLA IN SussEX.—I have to report the capture of 
‘a Crimson Speckled Footman Moth (Detopeia pulchella) on Beachy 
Head, on October 7th. It appears to be a female-—GrraLp Hucu 
Brown ; The Swingle, Brenchley, Kent. 
