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Pyrameis atalanta, ab. — Referring to Mr. A. W. Lynn's note in 

 ' Entomologist ' for November, asking for previous records of the 

 above ab., I beg to state that I have a similar one in my collection, 

 captured in Guildford, Surrey, and exhibited at the South London 

 Natural History Society (see ' Entomologist,' vol. xxxix. p. 111). — 

 W. E. Butler ; Hayling House, Reading. 



Second Brood of Boarmia repandata. — Larvae from the usual 

 summer brood of B. repandata fed up and pupated, and produced 

 perfect insects during September and October. One of the moths, a 

 male, is a black specimen. All were strongly and beautifully marked, 

 and some were intermediate between strongly marked and black — 

 the black showing on the basal half of the wings. The parents 

 of the first brood were reared from Delamere Forest larvae, and I have 

 caterpillars now from eggs laid by females of the second brood of 

 moths. — J. Thompson ; 20, South View, Chester. 



Catocala nupta, ab. — At the end of August last a specimen of 

 C. oiupta, in which the usual reddish colour of the hind wings was 

 replaced by dusky brown, came to light. — B. Harold Smith; Edge- 

 hill, Warlingham, Surrey. 



Chrysophanus phl^as, ab. — C. 2McBas was in great numbers 

 near the Lizard, Cornwall, last September. I took one female which 

 had the right fore wing mainly white instead of the usual copper 

 colour. — B. Harold Smith. 



Dragonflies bred in 1911. — I have bred this year ^schna 

 grandis, ^. cyanea, Ischnura elegans, Agrion puella, Erytliromma 

 naias, Pyrrliosoma nymphida. I did not find it a good season for 

 nymphs ; a week-end at Wicken Fen at Whitsuntide produced but a 

 few ; it was of course rather late for them. Brachytron pratense was 

 flying in fair numbers. — Harold Hodge. 



Notes on Durham Lepidoptera. — Eupitheciainnotata. I obtained 

 a few larvae last year in Durham from scabious and rose, that I took 

 to be E. fraxinata. However, when the insects emerged this year they 

 proved to be E. innotata. My friend, Mr. Johnson, of Gateshead, 

 deserves the credit for detecting these larvae on scabious, for he took 

 a fair number in 1909 from which no moths were reared the following 

 year. These food-plants seem unusual, but the larvae from ova laid 

 by bred females fed readily on a potted plant of Artemisia absinthium 

 I had ready for them. The females pair readily enough, but they 

 have a decided objection to depositing their ova. I secured about 

 two dozen and have nine pup®. A point worthy of note is that the 

 insect is double-brooded in captivity, although perhaps the present 

 season has not been suitable for giving one a general rule. I was 

 unable to go for wild larvae this year. — Oporahia autumnata. I have 

 discovered this species in tolerable abundance in a mixed birch and 

 alder wood at Birtley, North Durham. The forms were quite typical. 

 — 0. filigrammaria. This too occurs not uncommonly at Birtley. 

 One locality is on heather, but what it feeds on at the other, unless it 

 is elder or hawthorn, is a mystery to me. — 0. christyi. One female 

 on a telegraph pole at Birtley. — Hydriomene ruherata. — Very common 

 indeed at Birtley. Nearly all are of the red form, but the type occurs 



