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NOTES ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 101 



The varieties n'hich have turned up during the past season 

 possess considerable interest for those who take delight in 

 these freaks of nature : one, a white-belted variety of T. culi- 

 ■ciforme, is especially remarkable, the more so that it was 

 taken in copuld with an ordinary red-belted specimen. 



Lasiocampa callun^, Palmer, versus quercus, Linn. 



At page 36, vol. iv. Ent. Mo. Mag. Mr. Bond records the 

 fact of his having bred at any rate one decided specimen 

 of X. quey^cus from one of a number of pupag of B. callutKC, 

 received from Staffordshire. This individual, which with the 

 rest passed the winter in the pupal state, differs in no respect 

 from ordinary L. quercus that have only passed a month or 

 so as pupge. The darker and stronger markings of calluncB 

 cannot, therefore, be due to the longer duration of the pupal 

 stage. Then too neither is so distinct from the other as 

 L. rol)oris is from either. The subject is certainly one 

 for further investigation. 



Tapinostola Bondii, mihi, again. 

 Respecting this species my friend Mr. Doubleday thus 

 quotes from a letter received from Professor Zeller : " After 

 an examination of the figures and descriptions I cannot sup- 

 pose it \_Bondii^ to be the extrema of Hiibner. Treitschke 

 (v. ii. 316), who saw the originals, says, that the cilia, though 

 too darkly coloured, are reallu dark, as if singed, and adds 

 that in the least marked specimens there is always a dark dot 

 in the outer margin which is visible on the underside. 

 Moreover, the whole underside is white, sparingly dusted m 

 the intervals of the 'prominent veins. I hope that when I 

 am in Vienna I shall see the specimens in the Museum and 

 be able to inform you of the real difference of these two 

 species." 



