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tracts the ventral area and falls oft food-plant, but does not form a ring ; crawls 

 very slowly ; length when full grown about three-fourths of an inch. 



On June 3rcl both larvre spun up, in a very slight web composed of 

 apparently just a few single strands of white silk, hardly visible to the 

 naked eye, and on June 6th pupated without any attachment, lying in 

 their webs on their backs in a horizontal position. 



PoPi. — Colour green, abdomen yellowish-green ; markings brown ; a brown 

 central stripe over head and thorax, nine or ten brown stripes on wing-cases ; 

 antennse and legs brown ; five rows of paired brown specks (tubercular points), and 

 oae row (the lowest on each side) of single spots, also numbers of dots sprinkled all 

 over the abdomen, slightly thicker on the ventral area. Length ^'jin., thickness 

 barely ^^'^.in. 



The above description was made from one of the pupae, the other 

 one being slightly more w^hitish on the dorsal surface of the abdomen ; 

 soon afterwards both turned slightly whiter. On June 11th the pupae 

 commenced to darken ; on the 13th the pups were nearly black ; on 

 the 14th a ? emerged, 15th a ^ emerged, thus proving that the larvae 

 were what I had taken them for, viz., M. epiphron var. casfiiope. — H. A. 

 Beadle, 6, Station Street, Keswick. October 11th, 1899. 



^^ARI ATION. 



Diminutive Macroglossa stellatarum. — Miss Doris Green, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. J. F. Green, of Blackheath, captured a specimen of 

 Macroglossa stellatarum on September 8th, 1899, at Sandgate, Kent, 

 measuring only 30mm. from tip to tip of its forewings. As this is the 

 smallest example I have seen of this moth it appears worthy of notice. 

 Thanks to the liberality of the captor this specimen has found a resting- 

 place in my collection. — B. A. Bower, F.E.S., Lee. October Idth, 

 1899. 



Aberration of Cyaniris argiolus. — This spring I captured a ? 

 specimen of C. anjiolus, in which the ordinary violet-blue colour of the 

 wings was replaced by a bright metallic blue, very similar to the colour 

 of Pohjommatus beUargns. — S. G. Hills, Public Library, Folkestone, 



Variation of Eupithecia pulchellata with description of var. 

 HEBUDiuM, N. VAR. — During July, 1898, whilst staying on the west 

 coast of Scotland, I collected on one of the smaller of the Inner 

 Hebrides a bag of foxglove flowers containing larva; of Kujiithecia 

 pulchellata, and from these emerged in due course a magnificent series of 

 forms quite different from any I have ever seen. The whole of the 

 specimens are much darker than our southern types, and this darken- 

 ing is brought about by the bands, which, in the type, are bright chest- 

 nut, being brown of several shades in the difierent specimens. The 

 extreme form, which comprises about 20 per cent, of the whole, is so 

 distinct from the type of this usually constant species that I would 

 propose for it the varietal name of hebudium, n. var., and would describe 

 it as follows : 



The transverse bands which in the type are chestnut-coloured, are, in this 

 variety, very dark brown, of a tint which artists would call " cold sepia." They are 

 much more distinct, and about half the width of those in the type, and the space 

 left by this reduction of width is white, the result is a decidedly grey-looking 

 insect. 



The island on which the larva? occurred is almost treeless, and E. 

 pulchellata rests upon the rocks, which are grey, and is thus protected 

 by its environment. — W. G. Sheldon. September, 1899. 



