112 (October, 
Larve of Deilephila galii, §c., at Brighton.—I have been so fortunate as to take 18 
larvee of D. galii, and 70 of C. porcellus near here this season. Those of Acherontia/ 
Atropos are also common.—W. Epwarps, 18, Bosses Gardens, Brighton, 19th August, | 
1871. 
Singular variety of Argynnis Aglaia.—While on an excursion upon the Norfolk 
Broads, during the latter part of last July, I found Argynnis Aglaia abundantly in 
one small marshy field, flying about thistle-heads, &c., and am informed by the 
“natives ” that it occurs there every year. 
I have recorded this both because Aglaia is of exceedingly rare occurrence in _ 
Norfolk—if, indeed, it be recorded from that county at all,—and because among the | 
captures is a var. so distinct and beautiful as to deserve special notice. 
On the upper-side nearly all the usual markings are obliterated, with the excep- 
tion of those which cross the discoidal cell, of which the double bar, or irregular ob- 
long ring, nearest the base, is present, as is the broad bar nearest the hind margin, 
but not the narrow mark, which, in Aglaia, crosses the cell between the other two. 
The two short, black bars or square blotches in the central area of the fore-wing of 
Aglaia, immediately below the discoidal cell, are faintly indicated; the series of 
round spots, crossing both fore and hind-wings, parallel to hind margin, is repre- ~ 
sented in the fore-wing by a row of obscure, cloudy blotches, forming a faint brown 
fascia: on the hind-wing two of the spots are visible near the anal angle, the 
others are absorbed in a broad, deep-black fascia crossing the (hind) wing, parallel 
to hind margin. Inside this fascia is the fulyous ground colour, marked with a dis- 
tinct and broad, but irregular, black ring, instead of the black clouding which occu- 
pies the base of the hind-wings of Aglaia. 
All the nervures (or wing rays) are conspicuously powdered with black, so as 
to form a series of black streaks bordering the hind margin of all the wings, where 
the ordinary lunules are entirely absent. 
These streaks are especially distinct toward the apical angle of the fore-wings, 
and on the hind-wings, where they extend from the black fascia to the hind margin. © 
The general appearance is that the basal and central markings are absent, or 
almost imperceptible, while those of the hind margin are enormously exaggerated 
and extended toward the centre. 
The under-side agrees far more nearly with Haworth’s var. Charlotta than 
with Aglaia; the large, basal, silvery blotches of that var. are present, but the cen- 
tral row of silver markings is represented only by four small spots, while the apical 
row is extended into a series of seven large, oval spots, about half the size of the 
basal blotches. —F. D. WHEELER, Chester Place, St. Giles’ Road, Norwich, Aug., 1871. 
Capture of Noctua sobrina and other Lepidoptera at Rannoch.—My brother and 
I visited this most productive hunting ground again this summer, about the middle 
of August, and had the pleasure of taking arother specimen of N. sobrina, together 
with the following rather local species :— 
E. Blandina, C. Davus, D. obfuscata, T. pinetaria, L. olivata, M. rubiginata (var. 
plumbata), C. munitata, C. testata, C. populata, C. imbutata, X. rurea, (var. com- 
busta), C. graminis, OC. Haworthii, A. porphyrea, N. glareosa, N. conflua, N. Dahli, 
N. neglecta, O. suspecta, EL. viminalis, A. occulta, A. tincta, H. adusta, C. solidaginis, 
P. interrogationis, S. anomala, A. alpinalis, C. margaritellus. 
