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VARIETY OF CHRYSOPHANUS PHLHIAS NEAR ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH.— 
A friend has just brought to me a recently caught specimen of C. 
phleas schmidtit. It is the first I have seen taken in this district, 
where C. phleas is somewhat common. Both hind wings are slightly 
damaged, otherwise it is in good condition—pearly white, as distinct 
from the cream-tinted variety. —F rank Brown; Bath Street, Ashby- 
de-la-Zouch, September 17th, 1914. 
Gynanprous P. tcArus.—Whilst on the look-out for female vars. 
of P. icarus here on the 4th inst., I took a fine example of the 
gynandrous form, in which the left pair of wings are male and the 
other pair female. The latter have only a few blue scales, although 
at this spot most females are of the lovely ab. cwrulea form. Hxcept- 
ing the upper male wing, the under sides have the usual female 
coloration.— Martin J. HarpiInG; Oakdene, Church Stretton, Septem- 
ber 21st, 1914. 
LeucaNIA FAvIcoLoR IN Hants.—I should like to record the 
capture at sugar on our local marram-grass, of three specimens 
of L. favicolor—two on June 29th (one fair and one good), and one 
on July 4th (poor).—A. L. Burras; 3, Connaught Road, North End, 
Portsmouth. 
CERURA BIFIDA IN Aucust.—A larva of C. bifida pupated July 
17th, 1914, and the moth emerged to-day, August 13th.—H. C. 
JEDDERE-FisHER; Apsleytown, East Grinstead. 
Note on Hecatera pysopEA.—I shall be glad if any of your 
readers will say if they ever come across H. dysodea now. A few 
years ago the larve were to be found regularly every year about 
here, in greater or lesser numbers. But since, I think, the year 1905 
I have never been able to find a larva, and I believe the same thing 
has been noticed at Wicken, where also they used to be common. 
Has this insect unaccountably become extinct ?—PrErcy C. Rern ; 
Feeringbury, Kelvedon, September 10th, 1914. 
KuvaNessA ANTIOPA IN NorFrouK.—lI think it will interest you to 
know that on Tuesday morning last my little girl of six years 
captured a specimen of H. antiopa in Gaywood. She has a net, but 
on that occasion she did not have it, so she got a big-necked bottle 
from a friend’s house and put it over the butterfly which was sitting 
upon some wood. I am afraid it got a bit mauled, because she 
transferred it to other receptacles once or twice; but Mr. Atmore, to 
whom I showed it, says it is a fine big specimen —C. G. Barrett ; 
Pleasant House, Gaywood, near King’s Lynn, September 17th, 1914. 
LARv# OF ACHERONTIA ATROPOS NEAR Norwicu.—During the 
last two weeks of August larvae of Acherontia atropos have been 
found, not infrequently, in this district; and I have heard of at least 
three other specimens from the neighbourhood of Wymondham, 
which brings the number I have come across up to ten examples. 
They were apparently all found on rather large fields of potatoes, and 
I have heard of none from small patches of the food-plant. The 
Norfolk yokel is usually terrified of anything out of the ordinary, 
and immediately destroys it, and one larva was cut in half by the 
