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In another variety which I have noticed in this colony the 

 colour is orange-red or brick-red. This form, unlike the yellow 

 one, does vary in the shade of colour : some of them are almost 

 of the normal crimson-red, whilst others are very decidedly 

 distinct in colour from the ordinary form. 



Another variation is one that reminds me very much of 

 Zygana pilosellte ? —the Irish burnet. The red colour occupies 

 the greater part of the fore wings, and the blotch is specially 

 wide towards the hind margin, where it shades off imperceptibly 

 into the green margin. The wing-rays appear greenish, running 

 into the red blotch from the hind margin ; this gives the red 

 blotch an undefined and feathery edge. I have taken two of 

 these at this colony, and another, years ago, at another place 

 near by. This remarkable colony also produces a few specimens 

 imperfectly provided with wings, some even without wings at all. 

 I have one specimen which has one well-developed hind wing, 

 but the other three wings are entirely absent. Another example 

 bears two good wings on one side and a rather bleached and 

 imperfect hind wing only on the other. 



Most curious of all, perhaps, are specimens with their wings 

 considerably shortened or cropped off, the hind or outer parts 

 being left with deep wedge-shaped notches cut out of them. 



Some bred specimens with dwarfed wings ought perhaps also 

 to be mentioned ; two of these have full-sized bodies, but the 

 wings are only half their proper length. Yet these wings show 

 all the spots clearly, but in miniature and rather crowded. 



Watergate, Euisworth. 



WHY NOT COLLECT TORTKICINA? 



During the past twenty years or so there has certainly been 

 some increase in the number of micro-lepidopterists, and the 

 results have been the discovery of many new species, together 

 with a considerable addition to our knowledge of the group as a 

 whole ; but much still remains to be done. For several species 

 of Tortricina, for example, only a few British localities (some- 

 times only a single one) have been recorded ; but most probably, if 

 there were a greater number of collectors of this family, it would 

 be found that such species were more widely distributed. The 

 life-histories of certain species in the same family have yet to 

 be made known, and the much-vexed question of species versus 

 variety has yet to be decided in not a few cases. 



There is no doubt that if collectors of British Lepidoptera 

 were more generally interested in Tortricina than they appear 

 to be, they would have fewer barren excursions than often falls 

 to their lot. All the species are very interesting, and many are 



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