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edusa was taken at Folkestone in August and beginning of September, 

 one lad ^taking about 30 during a fortnight. I hope to sendTon'^full 

 details of my year's collecting later. — C. P. Pickett, F.E.S., 99, 

 Dawlish Road, Leyton, Essex. October Qth, 1906. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Gynandkomorphous specimen of Orgyia antiqua, Linn. — At the 

 meeting of the Berlin Section of the Tnternationales Entomologisches 

 Verein Guben on September 18th, 1906, a young member, Herr Alb. 

 Zehbe, exhibited a wonderful gynandromorphous specimen of this 

 species. The right side is male with fully developed wings, the left 

 femaie and wingless. The division could be plainly followed down the 

 middle of the thorax and abdomen, the sudden change of colour from 

 brown to grey being very remarkable. The left side of the abdomen, 

 being swollen and much larger than the right, gave a strange lopsided 

 look to the whole specimen. It was reared, as I understand, from a 

 Berlin larva. — E. M. Dadd, F.E.S., 71, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin. 

 September 22nd, 1906. 



A green Pieris pupa on the black trunk of a lime-tree at 

 Lewisham. — On the afternoon of September 19th, I saw, on 

 the trunk of a lime-tree, black with soot, a bright green spot, 

 of the tint of a fresh lime leaf, that, on examination, proved to be 

 a brilliantly coloured almost emerald-green pupa which I supposed 

 at first was a newly-formed chrysalis of Pieris rapae. It had, 

 however, very dark streaks on the wing-cases. These dark markings 

 made me doubt the species, and I thought afterwards it might be 

 P. napi. Being in a hurry, however, I took no further notice, until 

 two days after, I saw again the bright green pupa, brilliantly tinted 

 as before, and knew that this was its fixed adult coloration. I fully 

 determined to make a closer examination, but, having no knife with 

 me, and being desirous to have the pupa in sitii, I thought I might 

 postpone the matter. This I did, with the result that, on the evening 

 of the 30th, the pupa was clean gone, the silken pad alone denoting its 

 recent position. Two points struck me — (1) The marvellously bright 

 colour of the pupa on such a dismally tinted background. (2) Whether 

 the pupa was conspicuous to a bird and was stolen by one. Certainly, 

 not one in a hundred humans would have supposed it anything but a 

 leaf, yet it disappeared in little more than a week. — Ibid. 



Gynandromorphous Angerona prunaria. — I bred, this year, a 

 gynandromorphic Anc/erona prunaria, a most extraordinary specimen, 

 in that it varies greatly from the ordinary gynandromorphous examples 

 with one side S and the other ? . In this specimen the right forewing 

 is 2 , the left forewdng is ^ , the right hindwing is <y , the left hind- 

 wing is both $ and ? , the central portion being $ , and outer edges 

 being <? ; the body is yellow and more ? ; the right antenna 5 , the 

 left between g and 2 • It is of the sordiata (banded) form. — C. P. 

 Pickett, F.E.S., 99, Dawlish Road, Leyton, Essex. October Gth, 1906. 



®^URRENT NOTES. 



Dr. Carl Schawerda, 22, Gumpendorferstrasse, Vienna, VI., who is 

 at work on a brochure relating to Parasemia plantaginis, asks for help 



