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the large yellow spots upon the costa are represented by a minute 
dull yellow spot near the apex; the fringes are dull orange, tinged 
with pink, instead of the clear yellow of typical specimens. I propose 
unipunctalis as a varietal name for this striking form. It is a very 
common species here, and I have often seen it swarming at sugar on 
old pollard willow trees—GERVASE F'’. MatHew; Lee House, Dover- 
court, Essex, February 24th, 1914. 
Some VARIETIES OF GONODONTIS BIDENTATA. — In the early 
summer of 1911 Commander Gwatkin- Williams, R.N., sent me some 
ova of bidentata from County Cork, and I placed them in a large 
sleeve over the branch of an ash tree in my garden. In due course 
the larve hatched, fed up, and pupated. The following spring a 
number of moths emerged ; these were a very varied lot, hardly one 
of them being typical, and there were some very beautiful forms 
among them, the following being the most conspicuous :—(1) A pale 
straw colour, something the shade of Crocalis elinguaria, with very 
faint transverse lines, the discoidal spots very small, and all the wings 
sparsely dusted with very minute brownish atoms. A very beautiful 
variety. (2) Somewhat similar to the above but slightly darker— 
biscuit colour would perhaps best describe it; the transverse lines 
and discoidal spots more distinct, and the irrorations more pro- 
nounced. (3) This is much the same colour, but of a slightly richer 
tone, and with the transverse lines and discal spots very distinct. 
(4) Pale ochreous, transverse lines and discal spots rather faint; 
irrorations very distinct, and grouped in patches towards the outer 
margin of fore wings. (5) Golden-brown, transverse lines rather 
distinct, and in one or two specimens outwardly edged with white ; 
irrorations obsolete. (6) Warm brown, transverse lines somewhat 
faint, the outer one dotted with white spots; irrorations indistinct.— 
GeRvAsE EF. Matuew; March 9th, 1914. 
BuTTERFLY COLLECTING IN SICILY AND CALABRIA IN 1912 AND 
1913.—It is a truism that the weather often makes or mars the 
success of an excursion in search of butterflies, and my recollections 
of a visit to Sicily in 1912, where I spent the month of April, chiefly 
comprise high winds, dust, and torrents of rain. Contrary to my 
usual experience I left England bathed in sunshine, and on the 
railway banks between Modane and Turin I saw several specimens 
of Huchloé ewphenoides flying about gently (March 29th), and during 
a compulsory stop of six hours at Rome I watched females of Pierts 
rape depositing their eggs on the herbage in the grounds of the 
Villa Borghese (March 30th), but south of Naples clouds hid the 
sun, and in Sicily (March 31st) rain and wind held sway. My 
record of the weather for the month of April is nine wet days, nine 
showery or dull days, six bright sunny days, and six days with 
occasional sunshine. To be detained indoors by rain or wind was 
very provoking, at a time too when the newpapers brought news of 
sunshine in England. On April 5th I took train via Catania to 
Randazzo at the back of Mount Etna for the week-end, but my visit 
was a failure, as clouds hid the summit of the voleano. On former 
visits I have found a great scarcity of larvae, the plants showing no 
signs of having been eaten, but this season the patches of nettles 
