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The costal patch is elongated and reaches to the middle. The angu- 
lated basal patch in the other forms is marked in outline only, it is the 
same here, but at the angle there is a large dark spot, which some- 
times has a pale centre. This subbasal spot is the most distinctive 
feature of this aberration. One specimen approaches straw colour and 
has the first portion of the central fascia only in outline. This spotted 
form is mentioned by Stainton (Manual, vol. ii., p. 227). The fourth 
form is a very dark insect. The ground colour rich chestnut, clouded 
at the base with very dark grey. The central fascia and the whole of 
the apical part of the wing blackish grey. The hindwings are decidedly 
erey, much darker than those of any of the other forms. In some 
specimens the forewings show an almost even mixture of black and 
chestnut. This form I take to be the rhombana mentioned by Wilkin- 
son. The most interesting specimens are those which connect the 
different forms. Among these are two ab. ciliana in which the costal 
spot joins the central fascia, making thus the Y-like mark. A third, 
which is distinctly of the Y form, shows the dorsal enlargement of the 
fascia, the basal spot and prolonged costal spot, which are the distinc- 
tions of the spotted form. One ciliana connects this with rhombana, 
and one rhombana has the basal spot. I should be glad to know if 
there are any other distinct forms of this variable species, for among 
the specimens collected here some show further possibilities. For 
instance have the following ever occurred: the only marking, a dark 
costal triangle; any form with a thick streak from the central fascia 
to the base; with three dark fascie, a basal, the central and the costal 
spot prolonged to the dorsum, and lastly with forewings entirely black? 
In conclusion I will note the figures in Barrett’s work (Lep. Brit. Isles, 
vol. x., plate 450). Figure 3 shows the form I have alluded to as 
ciliana, figure 8a the Y-form, and 3b a pale and poorly marked speci- 
men of what I have quoted as rhombana. I have never seen a figure 
of the handsome spotted form.—Aurrep Sicu. March 18th, 1918. 
Some Fiextp Nores ror 1916-17 (Continued).—On August 23rd, 
1916, about 20 g Orgyia antiqua were observed assembling to a @ in 
a small tree at Hast Dulwich, at about eleven o’clock in the morning, 
and on the 24th three batches of Porthesta chrysorrhoea ova hatched. 
When in the Isle of Wight in September, a friend informed me 
that in the previous winter, when doing some repairs to a building, 
172 queen wasps were found hibernating under the ridge along the top 
of the roof. 
On October 12th worn specimens of Hpirrita (Oporabia) dilutata 
were found at rest on fences at Hast Dulwich. At Midhurst, Sussex, 
on November 13th, specimens of Xylina ornithopus (rhizolitha) were 
resting on fir trunks, and in a road through a wood I discovered a 
number of wings of Hibernia aurantiaria lying on the ground. 
Specimens of Cheimatobia brumata were resting on fences at Hast 
Dulwich on December 1st, and up to December 31st ova obtained from 
a 2 B. trifolii, from Dorset, were still unhatched, but on February 
24th, 1917, the first four larve hatched out, and they continued to 
hatch at intervals until April 7th, when the last two appeared. They 
all took very kindly to the ordinary grass found in a garden. 
At Three Bridges, Sussex, on February 28th, I saw the first Hibernia 
leucophaearia at rest on a fence, as against January 11th in the previous 
