about away from the food; hut this only happens when you 

 take, their house away from them when chanfjing their food/^ 



"Dec. 21, 1919. 



" Only one of luy Morpho caterpillars died, all the Test 

 have turned into chrysalids. I found them in two bunclies* 

 one of 11 and the other of 22, but 7 or 8 of the chrysalids went 

 black a couple of days after turning. I have opened two of 

 these, but can't find any signs of ichneumon ' grugs ' iiisidfi; 

 The first caterpillar when it wanted to turn crawled uhder 

 some paper I had put into the bottom of the cage to facilitate! 

 cleaning — a place where it had no room to turn in. So after 

 that T pasted a 3" strip of paper round the top of the cage 

 on the outside so as to darken it, and after that they mostl)^ 

 suspended themselves from the top of the cage, except a few 

 that suspended from the leaves of the food. When I found 

 them most of them had changed their skin for the last time, 

 and they fed for five or six weeks after that. I enclose a photo 

 of a group which will give you a fair idea of what they are 

 like. Unfortunately I could not get a panchromatic plate, 

 which would havfe brought out better the different shades of 

 colouring. The first chrysalis is now changing colour, and 

 will probably come out during the next week." 



Some Italian Eaces op Zygaena transalpina, Esp. — Mr. 

 Hy. -1 . Turner also exhibited several races of the very variable 

 Zygaena transalpina from peninsular Italy, sent to him by 

 Signot Querci, and stated the relationship of the various forms 

 as explained by Dr. Verity of Florence. He said : 



" Dr. Verity identifies the Z. Inii of Esper with the somewhat 

 later-described Z. framalpina -oi the same author, th'e former 

 being of small size, and comparatively frail build with much 

 extent of red scaling on the underside of the fore-wing, made 

 up of the group of Central European races ; the latter of CovA- 

 paratively larger size and istOut build without the' red scaling 

 on the underside of the fore-wings, niade up of the group of 

 more brilliantly coloured races of Italy south of the riVer Pbi 

 - ■ " The race of the Alps and Pyrenees, called alpina bvM. 

 Oberthiir, Dr. Verity calls alpicola. In the Po valley and the 

 loWer localities of the Alps there is a'somewh'at more robust 



