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These should be thrown away at once, as to use them for cabinet specimens 

 of Lepidoptera would almost certainly result in the subsequent distortion 

 of the insects. In pulling apart these " geminated " pins, the enamel would 

 be stripped from one or the other, perhaps both, at the point or points of 

 cohesion, and, as the pins are made of brass, corrosion would be sure to 

 ensue when the abraded portions came in contact with moisture of any kind. 

 Whilst makers continue to fashion our pins of brass they will never 

 succeed in giving entomologists a thoroughly satisfactory pin, i.e., one 

 which is practically incorrodible, will not collapse under moderate pressure, 

 and bearing withal a point capable not only of piercing the thorax of an 

 insect, but of penetrating any substance not harder than deal. Mr. Leech 

 has had a pin made for him in continental sizes (supplied by Watkins and 

 Doncaster) which possesses all these desirable qualities, and there appears 

 to be no valid reason why the same makers should not turn out as good a 

 pin in English sizes. — Kichaed South. 



Gynandromorphous Argynnis paphia. — While collecting in the New 

 Forest I captured a very curious variety of Argynnis paphia, the wings on 

 the right hand being decided female, while those on the left are decided 

 male, giving the insect a very peculiar appearance. — C. H. Williams ; 

 7, Carburton Street, Great Portland Street, W., August 19, 1891. 



Gynandromorphous Colias eleotra. — Kecently I received a small 

 collection of Rhopalocera from the Transvaal, and amongst them there 

 is a singular aberration of C. electra. The right side is male, and 

 the left is female ; and while the male wings are normal in colour, the 

 female side differs altogether from the type, in being the pale, almost 

 white, variety that corresponds to our var. helice of C. edusa. — Robert 

 Service ; Maxwelltown, Dumfries, August 18, 1891. 



Variety of Vanessa c-album. — On the 26th of July last I captured, 

 on the banks of the Wye, near here, a curious variety of V. c-album. The 

 specimen is smaller than is usual. Colouring very dark. The right fore 

 wing has the two large spots on the costal margin coalesced, also the two on 

 the inner margin ; all much suffused. The left fore wing has the spots 

 distinct, but large and suffused. The hind wings are suffused with deep 

 black at the base, and without distinct spots. I may add that the species is 

 fairly plentiful here this year. — (Rev.) Gerard W. Palmer; The Vicarage, 

 Monmouth. [Our correspondent has very kindly sent us a coloured sketch 

 of this interesting aberration. It appears to be a modification of the form 

 figured, Entom. xxii. pi. viii. fig. 5. — Ed.] 



Xanthic Variety of Epinephele ianira. — I captured in the New 

 Forest, 21st July last, a beautiful partially bleached (xanthic) form of 

 E. ianira, having the right primary of a glistening creamy white blending 

 into pale smoky brown at the base ; the ocellus is normal, excepting the 

 black pupil, which is not so deep in colour. It is a male, in the very finest 

 condition ; apparently it had not flown before I secured it, as its flight was 

 slow and weak. " Bleached " is hardly a correct term for this particular 

 form of variation, as it is caused by the want of colouring pigment in the 

 scales, which, I should say, is not bleaching. The term xanthic or xanthine, 

 therefore, would be more appropriate for this constant phase of variation in 

 the Satyridis.— F. W. Frohawk; Balham, S.W., August, 1891. 



