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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
LYMANTRIA MONACHA, ab.—I have been crossing and breeding a 
strain of Lymantria monacha for the past two or three years, with 
the object of obtaining dark and banded forms, in which I am 
meeting with some success. This year one brood produced several 
specimens with the crimson bands on the body replaced with yellow, 
a change which is of course most striking in the female, making it 
look almost a different moth. None of my entomological friends 
hereabouts have ever seen such a variety before, and I cannot find 
any mention of yellow bodied L. monacha in any of the books I 
possess. I may mention that the strain I am dealing with shows no 
sign of deterioration as yet, the imagines I have bred this year being 
for the most part much larger than those captured wild, while the 
fertility of the ova and the proportion of larvee to feed up were very 
high. —C. Rippon, F.E.S.; Springfield House, Abingdon-on-Thames, 
August 10th, 1914. 
VARIETIES OF Lyca#NA corypon, L. Icarus, &e.—I had the 
pleasure of taking in Bucks a very remarkable specimen of Lycena 
corydon var. striata, the spots on the under side being replaced 
by beautiful streaks. A very similar form of L. zcarus likewise 
fell to my net in Oxon. In May I captured two fine speci- 
mens of the unicolorous form of Hmaturga (fidonia) atomaria (var. 
unicolorata). They were taken within a few yards of the place 
where I obtained two similar forms in 1890, and recorded in the 
‘ Entomologist’ for January, 1891.—A. J. SprmuteR; Chinnor, Oxon. 
Harty HEMeRGENCE OF SMERINTHUS OCELLATUS xX AMORPHA 
POPULI (HYBRIDUS, Steph.).—I think it may be of interest to 
record the emergence yesterday (August 18th) of a fine specimen 
of the above-mentioned hybrid. The larva went down on July 17th— 
only a month and a day before the appearance of the imago. I 
should much like to know if this is a record for this hybrid. No 
forcing was attempted. I might add that from a pairing that I 
obtained (by assembling for wild ocellatws males, in preference to 
using bred males, and then caging with populs female) on May 30th 
of this year, eighty-one ova resulted, forty-seven hatched, and of 
these thirty-seven successfully pupated between July 1ldth and 
August 10th.—Sypney WuicHER; Westmead, Liss, Hants. 
EUCHLO® CARDAMINES IN Hast CumBertAND.—The orange tip is 
not a common insect in this part of the country. It may therefore 
be of interest to note that on June 15th, 1914, I saw two males upon 
the wing together on the banks of the Tyne close to Alston. The 
food-plant (Cardamine pratensis) is common all over the district, 
and, incidentally, it may be remarked that the double-flowered form 
of it is fairly numerous in the district.—GrorGE Bonam; Alston, 
Cumberland. 
AMMOPHILA SABULOSA, Linn., AND DASsYPODA HIRTIPES, Latyr., IN 
WOoRCESTERSHIRE.—I think it may be worth while placing on per- 
manent record that I have taken this summer these two species of 
Aculeate Hymenoptera in Worcestershire ; the former on August 
