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their pretty white pupa-cases, the green colour having disappeared 

 after the emergence of the butterfly, as is the case with other 

 species. I also exhibited some of the remaining larvae of Telea 

 polypliemus and Hyperchiria io, reared in the open air. 

 Tudor Villa, Tudor Road, Norbiton, Surrey, October, 1883. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Epunda lutulenta and vars. — My amusement consists in 

 collecting specimens of our insular Noctuae from different parts 

 of Europe, and I think that I can assist Mr. Kane. The typical 

 Epunda lutulenta of continental authors is a relatively light- 

 coloured insect {vide the figures of H.-S., 83 and 405, and of 

 Hubner, 159; and also specimens in my collection), which we 

 seldom see. Their luneburgensis (vide H.-S., 429 and 430) is our 

 lutulenta proper in its various shades of depth of colour, and I 

 doubt whether any one of these is sufficiently dark to justify its 

 being set up as a distinct variety, for I have seen Kent specimens 

 as dark as those from Morayshire. Sedi is no doubt the ash-gray 

 variety passing here as luneburgensis (but why ?). I certainly 

 have received sedi from Germany under the name of luneburgensis, 

 but I have set that down as done in deference to our English 

 acceptance of the word ; and this is probably the case with Mr. 

 Doubleday's specimen. Herrich-Schaffer gives a figure, No. 428, 

 which is a fair representation of sedi, and probably intended as 

 such ; but unfortunately, in the text below, the number is quite 

 omitted. I have observed in other instances that our typical form 

 is classed abroad as a dark variety, with a consequent confusion 

 of names — ex. gr., Acronycta leporina : the continental typical 

 insect is of a dead white ground colour; their bradyporina is just 

 such as our leporina. Writing in a general way, I may add that 

 many of the continental forms are so many shades lighter in 

 colour, as well as larger in size, that were they found in Britain 

 they would rank as light varieties. This is merely a confirmation 

 of the well-known tendency to melanism generally observed in 

 northern insects — I mean Britain contrasted with Central Europe. 

 — N. F. Dobree ; Beverley, East Yorks. 



Dasycampa rubiginea in Somerset. — It was my good fortune 

 to take an excellent specimen of this moth on the 24th of last 



