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observation. The whole process lasted about twelve hours. The case 
hardens gradually upon exposure, the portion still retained in the 
oviduct being soft and putty coloured. It seemed to me that when 
the whole capsule was ripe the ¢ could no longer retain it. Amongst 
others, Blatchley says (The Blattidae of Indiana) that the 2 B. orientalis 
carries its ootheca fora week orlonger; Phyllodromia germanica, for several 
days with half or three-fourths of its length protruding, and mentions 
that from one with protruding ootheca placed in a bottle at 11 p.m. 
the young had emerged at 8 the following morning. J. orientalis 
takes longer to hatch (here again authors differ—from any time up to a 
year). My difficulties are these (a): Can the 2 carry a fully ripe 
capsule? (b) If the portion retained in the body of the ? remains soft, 
can the young beas fully developed there as in the part extruded a con- 
siderable time before? I have always understood that the young emerge 
much about the same time as one another, but have had no opportunity 
for testing it.—Harry Moors, F.E.8., 12, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, 
February 19th, 1900. 
NZ ARIATION. 
ANTHROCERID ABERRATIONS WITH DARK INSTEAD OF RED spors.—In 
British Lepidoptera, vol. 1., p. 428, [noticed those species of Anthrocera 
of which aberrations with brown-coloured (instead of red) spots had 
been recorded. To these M. C. Oberthtr adds A. achilleae, bringing the 
total number up to six species. The specimen was captured at 
Cauterets last summer.—J. W. Turr. 
PaRALLEL COLOUR VARIATION IN LARVA AND PUPEH.—I observe that 
Mr. Walker asks (ante, vol. xi., p. 269) whether the brown larve of 
Ennomos fuscantaria always produce brown pupe, and green larve 
green pup. I can answer it in the affirmative as to both Zonosoma 
annulata and 4. porata. The larvee of 7. annulata are generally green, 
but we occasionally meet with brown ones. These latter are most 
common among autumnal broods, and when breeding the var. obsoleta 
last autumn (a third brood) I found a third of the larve were brown, 
and their pupe also are similarly coloured. Doubtless the change from 
type is protective, assimilating the larve to the dying leaves of the 
maple, but in this case, though the maples were already changing a 
good deal, the larve were supplied throughout with green leaves only. 
A hereditary tendency to the seasonal change must, therefore, be well 
established.—W. 8. Ripine, M.D., F.E.S., Buckerell, E. Devon. 
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
Hyponmnas misippus, LInn., TAKEN IN THE ATLANTIC Ocran.—Of the 
five specimens of Hypolimnas missipus, Linn., sent to me (and mentioned 
ante, vol. xi., p. 822) as part of aswarm taken by Captain Ellis in the 
Atlantic Ocean, two are males and three females. Of the latter one is 
typical misippus, while two are the var. inaria, Cr. This preponder- 
ance of the variety over the type, strongly indicates that the specimens 
had flown from some part of the Ethiopian region, and probably either 
from the tropical west coast or from the north-east or east coast. 
Thus inaria is very common at Aden, and abundant at Dar-es-Salaam. 
At Ashanti on the west, it seems to be the dominant form, as five 
