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Variety of Chrysophanus PHLiEAs near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. — 

 A friend has just brought to me a recently caught specimen ofC. 

 iMaas schmidtii. It is the first I have seen taken in this district, 

 where C. phlaas is somewhat common. Both hind wings are slightly 

 damaged, otherwise it is in good condition — pearly white, as distinct 

 from the cream-tinted variety. — Frank Brown; Bath Street, Ashby- 

 de-la-Zouch, September 17th, 1914. 



Gynandrous p. ICARUS. — Whilst on the look-out for female vars. 

 of P. icarus here on the 4th inst., I took a fine example of the 

 gynandrous form, in which the left pair of wings are male and the 

 other pair female. The latter have only a few blue scales, although 

 at this spot most females are of the lovely ab. ccerulea form. Except- 

 ing the upper male wing, the under sides have the usual female 

 coloration. — Martin J. Harding; Oakdene, Church Stretton, Septem- 

 ber 21st, 1914. 



Leucania favicolor in Hants. — I should like to record the 

 capture at sugar on our local marram-grass, of three specimens 

 of L. favicolor — two on June 29th (one fair and one good), and one 

 on July 4th (poor). — A. L. Burras; 3, Connaught Eoad, North End, 

 Portsmouth. 



Cerura bifida in August. — A larva of C. bifida pupated July 

 17th, 1914, and the moth emerged to-day, August 13th. — H. C. 

 Jeddere-Fisher ; Apsleytown, East Grinstead. 



Note on Hecatera dysodea.— I shall be glad if any of your 

 readers will say if they ever come across H. dysodea now. A few 

 years ago the larvae were to be found regularly every year about 

 here, in greater or lesser immbers. But since, I think, the year 1905 

 I have never been able to find a larva, and I beheve the same thing 

 has been noticed at Wicken, where also they used to be common. 

 Has this insect unaccountably become extinct ? — Percy C. Eeid ; 

 Feeringbury, Kelvedon, September 10th, 1914. 



EuvANEssA antiopa IN NoRFOLK. — I think it will interest you to 

 know that on Tuesday morning last my little girl of six years 

 captured a specimen of E. antiopa in Gaywood. She has a net, but 

 on that occasion she did not have it, so she got a big-necked bottle 

 from a friend's house and put it over the butterfly which was sitting 

 upon some wood. I am afraid it got a bit mauled, because she 

 transferred it to other receptacles once or twice ; but Mr. Atmore, to 

 whom I showed it, says it is a fine big specimen. — C. G. Barrett ; 

 Pleasant House, Gaywood, near King's Lynn, September 17th, 1914. 



Larvae of Acherontia atropos near Norwich. — During the 

 last two wrecks of August larvas of Acherontia atropos have been 

 found, not infrequently, in this district ; and I have heard of at least 

 three other specimens from the neighbourhood of Wymondham, 

 which brings the number I have come across up to ten examples. 

 They were apparently all found on rather large fields of potatoes, and 

 I have heard of none from small patches of the food-plant. The 

 Norfolk yokel is usually terrified of anything out of the ordinary, 

 and immediately destroys it, and one larva was cut in half by the 



