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Angerona prunaria. — Owing to illness since 1887 I have been 

 unable to continue the experiments shadowed forth in my article (Entom. xx. 

 36j, and, as I do not see any likelihood of my resuming them, perhaps 

 some other entomologist will kindly take up the subject and render it more 

 j ustice than I have been enabled to do. I have, however, managed to rear 

 a few more notable aberrations of prunaria described below, viz., a speckled 

 variety of the male with irrorated spots on basal half of hind wings, 

 suffused, forming a sooty blotch ; a palish example of the banded variety of 

 the male, with hind wings, colour and markings resembling the ordinary 

 female variety ; and a specimen of the common type of the female form of 

 a very pale straw-colour, with a few indistinct spots of the palest orange 

 chiefly at costal and outer edges of wings. — Geo. J. Grapes ; Berkeley 

 Villa, 34, Charlwood Road, Putney, S.W., February 6, 1890. 



Chcerocampa celerio in Queensland. — This insect is fairly common 

 here, and it is, I think, interesting to note that the imago appears in Sep- 

 tember (our spring) and October. The larva occurs in the following month, 

 and feeds up very rapidly ; all mine had pupated before the end of Novem- 

 ber. A green variety of the larva is found commonly, as in the case of C. 

 porcellus and C. elpenor. Here the larva feeds on grape-vine, a species of 

 wild vine, and on fuchsia. I send this note, because I see that Mr. Hellius, in 

 Buckler's 'Larvae,' only mentions vine as food-plant, while only the brown 

 variety of the larva is figured. To the accuracy of that figure I can bear 

 testimony. — (Rev.) C. D. Ash ; Southport, Queensland, Dec. 16, 1889. 



Is Ccenontmpha arcania, Linn., a casual visitor? — On overlooking 

 a cabinet containing Rhopalocera collected by me when a boy, and which 

 had not been added to or even opened, except to add fresh camphor, for 

 nearly twenty-four years, I found two specimens of the above-mentioned 

 insect. I cannot account for their presence in my cabinet, except that I 

 may have caught them, not knowing what they were ; certainly I have no 

 recollection of buying any as a schoolboy. Most of my collection was made 

 on the borders of Dorset and Devon, within a few miles of the sea. — John 

 H. Still; Langstone, Horrabridge. 



[Although it has a wide distribution throughout Europe, Ccenonympha 

 arcania is a local species, but in nearly all places where it occurs it is 

 common. Mr. De Vismes Kane, in his ' European Butterflies,' says that it 

 is abundant in most parts of France. A form of the species, known as 

 satyrion, Esp., affects the more elevated meadows of Switzerland, whilst at 

 lower altitudes darwiniana, Staud., another form, is found. This last is 

 intermediate between var. satyrion and the type. Stephens, in ' Illus- 

 trations of British Entomology,' Haustellata, i. p. 69 (1828), includes 

 this species, under the name of Hipparchia arcanius, on the slender 

 evidence of a single specimen in Mr. Plastead's collection, which was sup- 

 posed to have been captured in England. Wood and Curtis both figure 

 this specimen, and the last-named author, in his ' British Entomology,' Lep. 

 i. p. 205, says of it : — " captured by Mr. Plastead, it is understood, on the 

 borders of Ashdown Forest." — Ed.]. 



Variation of Chrysolophus spectabilis. — During a lengthened 

 stay in Victoria, in the present year, I had good opportunities for collecting 

 and observing the habits of several species of Australian Coleoptera. Soon 

 after commencing to collect, in January, I became impressed with the great 



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