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flies,' of Pajnlio machaon having been caught at Battersea, but 

 there is no recorded capture anywhere else in Surrey. — Bruce G. 

 Seton ; Derwent House, Anerley, Surrey, May 13, 1884. 



Pieris brassic.e, var. — Out of 1(50 larvae of Pieris brass'ica 

 taken in October three have up till now safely reached the imago 

 stage. One of these is a curious variety, the extreme expanse of 

 wings being 1-f-J in., and the specimen having none of the usual 

 markings, this being a male, except the tips of the fore wings, 

 which are very faintly marked with black. The other two are 

 ordinaiy male and female specimens. — G. F. G. Wildes ; Kirtling, 

 Newmarket, May 7, 1884. 



Reported Capture of Pyrameis huntera. — It may interest 

 some of your readers to know that I took a variety of Pyrameis 

 cardui, var. Pyrameis huntera, about four years ago in a lavender 

 field at Hitchin. — F. H. Barclay; Leyton, Essex. 



[Pyrameis huntera, Fab., is a synonym of P. virginiensis, Dru., 

 a North American species. It was formerly a reputed British 

 species, but no one holds that view now. It is possible that 

 Mr. Barclay has taken a variety of P. cardui, but we imagine not 

 P. huntera, which is not a variety, but a good species. — Ed.] 



LiYCiENA ARGIOLUS AND THECLA RUBI IN N. WARWICKSHIRE. 



— These two species were extremely plentiful this year in Sutton 

 Park (N. Warwickshire). The males of the former, as usual, 

 average about twelve to one to the females. They were rather 

 late in making their appearance this year, perhaps owing to the 

 recent rough weather, and many of the nights in April were 

 frosty. In 1882 L. argiolus was seen on April 7th; this year it 

 was a month later. — W. Harcourt Bath; 2, Edmund Street, 

 Birmingham, May 16, 1884. 



Deiopeia pulchella and Acronycta alni.— When I began 

 collecting Lepidoptera some few years ago I formed the nucleus 

 of my collection with a few species my elder brother had taken at 

 Repton, in Derbyshire ; amongst them was the rare Deiopeia 

 pidchella. When he returned from abroad this year, where he 

 has been for some time, I asked him about it. He took it, he 

 said, on a brick wall in the autumn of 1874 at Repton. I am not 

 aware that it has been captured in that neighbourhood before. 

 On June 9th, 1883, I took a finely-marked, but small, specimen of 



