251 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Lybianteia monacha, ab. — I have been crossing and breeding a 

 strain of Lymantria monacha for tlie past two or three years, with 

 the object of obtaining dark and banded forms, in which I am 

 meeting witli some success. This year one brood produced several 

 specimens with the crimson bands on the body replaced with yellow% 

 a change which is of course most striking in the female, making it 

 look almost a different moth. None of my entomological friends 

 hereabouts have ever seen such a variety before, and I cannot find 

 any mention of yellow bodied L. monacha in any of the books I 

 possess. I may mention that the strain I am dealing with shows no 

 sign of deterioration as yet, the imagines I have bred this year being 

 for the most part much larger than those captured wild, while the 

 fertility of the ova and the proportion of larvaB to feed up were very 

 high. — C. RiPPON, F.E.S. ; Springfield House, Abingdon-on-Thames, 

 August 10th, 1914. 



Vaeietibs of Lyc^na coeydon, L. icaeus, &c. — I had the 

 pleasure of taking in Bucks a very remarkable specimen of Lyccena 

 corydon var. striata, the spots on the under side being replaced 

 by beautiful streaks. A very similar form of L. icarus likewise 

 fell to my net in Oxon. In May I captured two fine speci- 

 mens of the unicolorous form of Ematurga (Fidonia) atoviaria (var. 

 unicolorata). They were taken within a few yards of the place 

 where I obtained two similar forms in 1890, and recorded in the 

 ' Entomologist ' for January, 1891. — A. J. Spillee ; Chinnor, Oxon. 



Eaely Bmeegence op Smeeinthus ocellatus X Amoepha 

 popuLi (hybeidus, Steph.). — I think it may be of interest to 

 record the emergence yesterday (August 18th) of a fine specimen 

 of the above-mentioned hybrid. The larva went down on July 17th — 

 only a month and a day before the appearance of the imago. I 

 should much like to know if this is a record for this hybrid. No 

 forcing was attempted. I might add that from a pairing that I 

 obtained (by assembling for wild ocellatus males, in preference to 

 using bred males, and then caging with poimli female) on May 30th 

 of this year, eighty-one ova resulted, forty-seven hatched, and of 

 these thirty-seven successfully pupated between July 15th and 

 August 10th. — Sydney Whichee ; Westmead, Liss, Hants. 



Euchloe caedamines in East Cumbeeland. — The orange tip is 

 not a common insect in this part of the country. It may therefore 

 be of interest to note that on June 15th, 1914, 1 saw two males upon 

 the wing together on the banks of the Tyne close to Alston. The 

 food-plant {Gardamine pratensis) is common all over the district, 

 and, incidentally, it may be remarked that the double-flowered form 

 of it is fairly numerous in the district. — Geoege Bolam ; Alston, 

 Cumberland. 



Ammophila sabulosa, Linn., and Dasypoda hietipes, Latr., in 

 WoECESTEESHiEE. — I think it may be worth while placing on per- 

 manent record that I have taken this summer these two species of 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera in Worcestershire ; the former on August 



