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Parallel variation in lakva and pupa. — Has anyone when breeding 

 Ennomoa fmcantaria noticed that the brown larva changes to a bro\vn 

 IDupa, and the green larva to an apple-green pupa ? I have not 

 hitherto noticed this although I have bred this species repeatedly from 

 ova? — S, Walker, Eddercliffe, Queen Anne's Koad, York. September 



25f/(, 1899. 



Aberration of IIoarmia gemmaria (rhomboidaria) . — A brief account 

 of a melanic aberration of lloannia rhonihoidaria I have bred may be of 

 interest : — Fore- and hindwings and antennte of the colour of the lines in 

 typical specimens, with first and subterminal lines ochreous, thorax and 

 extreme base of forewings as in type ; body and legs same colour as 

 wings, with ochreous markings at segments and joints. Eight of 

 these aberrations were bred in a brood of seventeen moths. The 

 parent was taken at Bexley on August 12th, 1898, and when fresh was 

 no doubt similar to her progeny, but at the time of capture she was 

 much worn and I had not the slightest notion what species I had 

 secured. There seems to be an idea prevailing that aberrations appear 

 at the end of an emergence, but as it did not hold good in this case I 

 append the dates on which the two forms came out ■.^Ti/inral. — June 

 28th (1), 30th (1), July Brd (1), 5th (1), 8th (1), 9th (2), 10th (2). 

 Aben-athms.— June 29th (1), 30th (1), July 1st (1), 4th (1), 5th (1), 

 7th (1), 12th (1).— B. A. Bower, F.E.S., Eltham Eoad, Lee. Atunoit 



lOth, 1899. ^ , ^ 



Dark mjerrations of Hemerophila abruptaria. — The dark aberra- 

 tions of H. abruptaria have been exceedingly rare in their usual 

 locality this year. I know of only two captures — one, a female, by 

 Mr. Pearce in his garden, another, a male, taken just off the Camden 

 Koad, Holloway.— W. A. Southey, 51, Crossley Street, Liverpool 

 Koad, N. September 'drd, 1899. 



Erebia aethiops ab. obsoleta. — Among a number of specimens of 

 F. aethiopn captured about thirty miles from here, I obtained a fine 

 male E. aethiops, which is practically ab. (ihsoleta on the hmdwmgs, 

 and on the forewings has only the faintest tinge of fulvous round the 

 apical spot.— H. Mousley, F.E.S., 10, Selborne Terrace, Bradford. 



September 2n(I, 1899. ^ t nr- u t 



Small aberration of Euchloe cardamines. — On June 1/th 1 

 captured a very small specimen of Euchloe cardamines, in Bucks. It 

 measures only 33mm.— A. M. Swain, 5, Kelvin Terrace, Sydenham, 

 S.E. 



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Hybrid "Clostera curtula X reclusa.— With regard to my note 

 on the cross of C curtula x reclusa (ante, p. 239) I have to state that I 

 have had eight imagines out during the last few days, and they are rather 

 like r. rurtula, only much darker. I find I made a slight error in 

 saying the colour of the ova was " brown like (,'. curtula,' I should have 

 said -brown like C reelusa." Of course that of (.'.curtula ^h davk 

 green, not brown.— L. W. Newman, 41, Salisbury Eoad, Bexley. 



September 18th, 1899. 



Cross-puring of Anthrocera lonicekae and a. filipendulae.— 

 Durin" July I found Anthmcera hmicerae very abundant in a locality 



