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border of brown along the hind margin, this colour again represented 

 on the basal area, with a distinct white baud crossing the centre of 

 the wing, and becoming narrower towards the costal margin. Under 

 side. Basal area of the primaries brown, with fine wavy lines of white 

 in the discoidal cell ; the yellow band distinctly indicated, and extend- 

 ing to the hind margin between the first and second median nervules ; 

 the apical area lighter brown, thickly covered with wavy hnes of 

 brownish white. Basal area and costal margin of the secondaries deep 

 reddish brown, relieved by five lines of black, somewhat disconnected 

 towards the extreme base ; the white band streaked on the inner margin 

 with brown ; the broad hind marginal border of brown thickly traversed 

 by innumerable wavy lines of brownish white. Expanse, 3 in. 



$ . Primaries. General colour brown, relieved by a large white 

 band near the apical area, extending just over the first median nervule ; 

 a faint streak of white visible near the centre of the inner margin. 

 Secondaries. Ground colour brown, with an almost obsolete band of 

 greyish white crossing the central area of the wing ; this colour most 

 strongly pronounced towards the inner margin. Under side. Primaries 

 similar to those of the male, with the exception that the white band 

 is replaced by a yellow one ; between the first and second median ner- 

 vules are two tawny yellow spots. Secondaries not different in colour 

 and markings from those of the male above described. Expanse, 

 3-1 in. 



Hab. Entebbe, Uganda, June, 1900 {Capt. H. B. Rattray). 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



GoRDius IN A Butterfly. — In the 'Entomologist,' vol. xxv. (1892), 

 p. 247 and 291, is a notice of a hair-worm emerging from a butterfly. 

 I have met with a precisely similar case. A specimen of Erebia 

 euryale, female, taken at Mendel (Tyrol) in 1895, presents, on being 

 taken out of paper, two ends (of one or two worms ?) of Gordius pro- 

 jecting from the cephalo-thoracic joint ; they are brown, coiled, and 

 shrivelled, but, even so, are each between a half and three-quarters of 

 an inch long, and would probably be about one inch and one and a half 

 inch respectively, if straightened out. One often meets with these 

 worms emerging from larvas, especially in some seasons, but they are 

 decidedly rarer in imagines. These two cases are curiously parallel in 

 both being Satyrids, in the worm emerging at the same point, and in 

 their giving no evidence of their existence at the time the insect was 

 captured. The interest 'of these specimens is chiefly in their being 

 exceptions to the almost invariable rule, that parasites in the Lepido- 

 ptera destroy their hosts before they reach the imaginal stage. — T. A. 

 Chapman ; Betula, Reigate, January, 1902. 



NoTODONTA DRYiNOPA, Lower. — It has already been shown how the 

 large Anthere^e cut out of their hard and tough cocoons {ante, p. 10). 

 I now have pleasure in furnishing notes upon the above insect, which 

 also constructs a hard but more breakable cocoon. These cocoons are 

 formed mostly of small fragments of bark and wood, bitten out of the 



