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outer edge of the last being close to the broad spiraeular stripe ; legs and prolegs 

 greyish-yellow, the latter marked on the outside with rust-colour. 



Manner of feeding, walking, &c, just as when last described. The 

 last two larvae went down September 21st, but no imagines afterwards 

 emerged from any of them. 



Huddersfield : 



May 9th, 1888. 



Note on Argyrolepia zephyrana, Tr. — On reading Mr. Barrett's account of 

 A. maritimana and this species (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiv, p. 219), it occurred to me that 

 the confusion between them may have arisen from the fact that there are two forms 

 of zephyrana. One of these is the small grizzled insect with the ground colour of the 

 fore-wings very pale yellowish-white, and their whole surface thickly sprinkled with 

 dark brown scales which greatly obscure the distinctness of the fasciae. This form seems 

 everywhere common in chalky and shingly places ; the other form has the fore-wings 

 of a rather bright primrose-yellow, with the fasciae in some instances almost obsolete, 

 except a small dark spot on the costa near the apex, while the dark scales are but 

 slightly represented. Its size has, to my knowledge, sometimes led to its being taken 

 for A. maritimana, my largest specimen of which measures about 19 mm. from tip 

 to tip, while my largest A. zephyrana extends about 16 mm., fully as much as 

 average-sized specimens of its ally. I have only met with the larvse of this large 

 form of A. zephyrana in a gross variety of Daucus carota growing on a crumbly, and 

 no doubt in winter very muddy, cliff in the Isle of Wight. I may, perhaps, be 

 allowed to mention that, in addition to the characters pointed out by Mr. Barrett, 

 the fringes of A. maritimana are streaked with dark brown, while those of 

 A. zephyrana are entirely pale yellow. — W. H. B. Fxetchek, Fairlawn House, 

 Worthing : April 16th, 1888. 



On the food plant of Thecla rubi, L. — Mr. Barrett's remarks on this species 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiii, p. 197), in his interesting account of his visit to Cannock 

 Chase, lead me, though rather late in the day, to record the circumstances of my 

 first meeting with its larva. In the summer of 1884, Mr. Salvage sent me from 

 Eannoch a bag of shoots of Vaccinium vitis-idcea on which larvse of Uuchromia 

 arbutana were feeding. After a while some Lyccena-like larvse crawled up. On 

 writing to ask Mr. Salvage what species of that genus occurred among the plant, he 

 told me that Thecla rubi was common where the shoots were picked, and that he had 

 most likely sent me its larva by accident. This was duly confirmed by the appearance 

 of some butterflies the following spring. A parallel case of a British butterfly feeding 

 on plants of both the Natural Orders Leguminosce and Ericaceae, is afforded by the 

 larvse of Lycana Agestis, which the late Mr. Buckler once told me is taken from 

 Calluna vulgaris on the Continent, while he himself reared it on Ornithopus 

 perpusillus. Mr. Barrett once obtained eggs laid on " twigs of heather," and I also 

 once found the larvse on Ling in the New Forest, so that I am inclined to think 

 that this is the usual food plant of the insect. — Id. 



Occurrence in Sussex of Butalis laminella, H.-S., new to Britain. — Among some 

 specimens of B.fuscocuprea swept in Arundel Park, in July, 1886, were a few others of 



