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black line generally very slightly represented, or even absent. Inner 

 band dark, not usually very broad in the centre. Light spot of 

 varying size and shape. Basal band has the second spot con- 

 spicuously the largest. The light bands vary in shade from white 

 to pale buff. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Zyg^na filipendul^ with Light Pink Spots and Hind 

 Wings. — On July 23rd I was walking on the hill at Lewes when a 

 very large Z. filipendulce settled on the grass just in front of me. Un- 

 fortunately I had neither net nor box available. It remained, how- 

 ever, long enough for me to see that the spots on fore wings and the 

 hind wings were of light pink instead of the usual carmine. — Joseph 

 Anderson ; September 23rd, 1908. 



Epinephele tithonus paired with E. hyperanthus. — The 

 above species were observed paired in North Cornwall on July 27th 

 by Mr. k. L. Rayward and myself. The male was E. tithonus. There 

 is a record in the 'Entomologist,' vol. xix. p. 230, by Mr. Percy 

 Rendall, of E. ianira being found paired with E. hyperanthus at 

 Brockenhurst. So far as I am aware, the pairing of E. tithonus with 

 E. hyperanthus has not previously been recorded. — A. Harrison ; 

 Delamere, Grove Road, South Woodford. 



OviPosiTioN OP a Hyperparasite (Chalcid) of Pieris brassic^. 

 — x\t the end of June, 1908, some larvae of P. brassicce were sent to 

 me from Yeovil, and on July 1st large numbers of the larvae of the 

 Braconid {Apanteles glomeratus) emerged from some of them. "Whilst 

 watching this process I chanced to notice that a small hymenopteron 

 was paying particular attention to an apparently healthy Pierid larva, 

 and seemed to be ovipositing therein. I isolated the larva and its 

 tormentor, and the ovipositing still continued. Two days later the 

 usual batch of Apanteles larvae left this caterpillar and spun their 

 cocoons. On July 13th several imagines emerged from these cocoons, 

 about half producing the parasite. On July 29th the expected hyper- 

 parasite emerged from the remaining cocoons. The point of this 

 note is to show that the hyperparasite oviposits in the larva of 

 Apanteles while the latter is still within the body of its host, and 

 not, as is often supposed, either in the Braconid larva soon after 

 emergence from the Pierid, or after it has spun its cocoon. — G. T. 

 Lyle ; Brockenhurst. 



Abraxas grossulariata, ab. — The pretty variety of this species 

 figured on Plate vii., fig. 1, was taken with three others at Saltaire, 

 Yorkshire, July 3rd, 1908, by Mr. J. A. Beck. The base, and outer 

 border of post median band on the fore wings is yellow; and there 

 is a tinge of the same colour about the middle of the band on the 

 hind wings. The specimen is rather larger than shown in the 

 photograph. — R. S. 



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