236 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Nove oN THE OccuRRENCE oF HeEprALus vELLEDA.— While 
staying at Okehampton, in Devon, last June, I took on the moors 
near there several fine specimens of the above insect. I have 
also taken it in two localities in Surrey, and have seen specimens 
from Sussex; thus it can no longer be regarded as a purely 
northern insect.—J. EversuED, jun.; Kenley, Surrey, Sept. 21. 
VARIETY OF CIRRH@DIA XERAMPELINA.—I have recently had 
the pleasure of adding to my collection a remarkable dark variety 
of C. xerampelina, which I found, on the 25th of August, at rest 
on an ash, evidently from its fine condition quite recently 
emerged from the pupa, probably not more than an hour or two 
before I had the satisfaction of transferring it to one of my chip 
boxes. The colour of the front wing is ferruginous-purple, 
faintly tinged with orange-yellow on the costal margin near the 
tips. ‘The median band is not excavated on the inner border, and 
is shown distinctly by a thread-like orange line on each border, 
which extends from the costa to the inner margin. The hind 
wing is slightly darker, more rosy than in normal specimens.— 
T. Mextprum; 13, Skellgarths, Ripon, September 21, 1883. 
(This variety occurs regularly in the Isle of Man, and has 
been taken by Mr. Prest at York.—J. T. C.] 
Tue DisrTriBpuTION oF ABRAXAS ULMATA.—It may interest 
Mr. J. H. Jenner (Entom. xvi. 211) to know that this species is 
by no means confined to the midland counties. I have seen 
specimens taken on the Addington Hills, near Croydon, and it 
occurs in the garden of my friend, Mr. A. R. Wallace, at 
Godalming, in Surrey. To my knowledge it is taken also in the 
neighbourhood of Horsham, in Sussex. References to entomo- 
logical literature would no doubt add many other localities in the 
south of England. From the western counties I have received it 
from near Newnham, in Gloucestershire. Its occurrence in 
Epping Forest and at St. Osyth, in Essex, is recorded in the 
‘Transactions of the Essex Field Club’ (vol. ii. p. Ilviiii.)— 
R. Metpona; September 38, 1883. 
Leripoprera or Uns'r.—Mr. McArthur has recently returned 
from this, the most northern of the Shetland Islands, with an 
exceedingly fine lot of Lepidoptera. Although he considers the 
past to have been a bad season, his captures are of a very 
interesting character, and appear to be a typical series of the 
