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Pieris Daplidice at Eastbourne. — I beg to inform jou that on Sunday last, 

 July 9th, at Eastbourne, I captured a fine specimen of Pieris Daplidice ? . Mr. 

 Percy Hutchison and Miss Lillias Earle, both Members of this Company, were 

 present and saw the insect alive. — Chahles Masters, Theatre Royal, Aldershot : 

 July \^th, 1893. 



G-ynandrous aberration in Argymiis Paphia. — A very remarkable example of 

 this ha? been sent up for examination by Mr. P. Cardew, taken by himself in the 

 New Forest. It is not evenly divided — half male and half female — but is fully 

 thi'ee-fourths female, both wings on the right side and two-thirds of the hind-wing 

 on the left being of that sex, with the usual olive tinge and shading on the dark 

 fulvous colour, the larger spots, and simple nervures ; while the left fore-wing is 

 male, with bright fulvous colour, smaller black spots, and the usual broad black suffu- 

 sions on the middle portions of the nervures, and only the base shows a slight 

 clouding of female colour. The left hind-wmg is more curious ; the anterior portion 

 to between the second and third nervures from that margin, is of the male colour, 

 the remainder female, and the line of distinction is sharply drawn the whole length 

 of the wing. There is a patch of fulvous male colour also on the left shoulder of the 

 thorax. The structure of the apex of the abdomen is i-ather obscure ; one harpe 

 (clasper) is present, belonging to the left side, but the rest is rather shrunken and 

 twisted, and hardly presents the appearance of the structure of the other sex. — 

 Chas. GI-. Barrett, Nunhead : July, 1893. 



Argymiis Paphia, var. Valezina, near Basingstoke. — A friend and myself have 

 taken six Argynnis Paphia, var. Valezina, in a beech wood, near Basingstoke, this 

 season, in the same spot where we took them two years ago ; on July 8th we netted 

 five, and my friend had taken one a day or two previously, but the most notable 

 fact about them was that while Valezina was in fine condition, the type was very 

 ragged and worn, not a good one to be seen, so that Valezina seems to be much later 

 in emerging. I had the same experience two years ago. The var. seemed as plentiful 

 as the typical females, for we certainly saw as many of the former as the latter. — 

 A. H. Hamm, 24, Halherley Road, Reading : July, 1893. 



The second hrood of Leucophasia sinapis. — This species was well out here on 

 July 2nd, and had probably been so from the last week in June, by the worn ap- 

 pearance of several taken ; and, judging by the short time I was amongst them, 

 appeared quite as plentiful as the first brood, and equal to it in size. — Id. 



An unusual habitat for Leucophasia sinapis. — ■! have never hitherto seen this 

 species except in or on the bordei-s of woods ; and my experience of it has been 

 limited to the woods of Sussex, Hampshire (New Forest), Herefordshire, and North 

 Lancashire. From the woods of this neighbourhood the " wood white " appears to 

 be absent ; but it occurs plentifully on the beach at the base and up the slopes of the 

 cliffs about three miles east of this place, its range extending thence some miles 

 towards Beer Regis. The commonest species of Leyuminosce in the locality is 



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