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(6) MELITAEA AURINIA. Has, I am glad to say, re- 

 appeared in Dorset at a number of stations in some abund- 

 ance. (W.P.C.) 



(7) CHRYSOPHANUS PHLAEAS. Var. schmidtii At Little 

 Windsor, by Mrs. W. Parkinson Curtis, on 4 June, 1917, and 

 on 7 June at Drake North, one with no copper band in the 

 hindwings. 



