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empty pupa-skin, after the imago has left it, is of a pale green colour, 
much like the fresh tint of the wings of Metrocampa margaritaria.— 
J. C. Mosrrty, M.A., F.E.S., Woodlands, Bassett, Southampton. 
November 20th, 1900. 
GY URRENT NOTES. 
Mr. H. J. Elwes and Miss Fountaine exhibited, at the meeting 
of the Ent. Society of London, October 8rd, 1900, a collection of 
lepidoptera from Greece, taken this season in the Morea and in 
the Parnassus region. Mr. Elwes remarked that the country about 
Athens was much dried up and overrun with goats and herds, and that, 
therefore, the lepidopterous fauna there was poor. On the south side 
of the Gulf of Corinth, however, the Pieridi were well represented, and 
out of eight European species seven were taken in three weeks. The 
Spring and summer broods of Pieris krueperi this year were flying 
together—an unusual occurrence, possibly due to the rainy spring. 
Among otaer notable species, albinos of Colias heldreichi (female) were 
taken, Gonepteryx rhamni var. farinosa, and Chrysophanus ottomanus, while 
Mr. Elwes further expressed his opinion that a Lycenid taken and 
generally assumed to be a var. of Nomiades semiargus was a distinct 
species. Miss Fountaine mentioned in connection with these exhibits 
that Colias heldreicht swarmed on Mount Kelmos from 4000 to 7000 
feet; and Mr. Elwes remarked that Miss Fountaine was the first 
British collector known to have captured this insect. 
There is an old-world flavour about the record by Lieut.-Colonel 
Haworth-Booth (a grandson of A. H. Haworth, the renowned author 
of Lepidoptera Britannica), in the Naturalist, p. 800, of the capture of a 
disabled Choerocampa porcellus at Hull on July 17th last, the recorder 
observing that this is ‘‘ according to Donovan (pl. cccxiv) one of the 
searcest of the British Sphinges.’’ Donovan must have written this at 
least a century ago, and the species is now known to be quite abundant 
in many parts of Yorkshire. 
Hntomologists will be grieved to learn that Auguste de Bormans 
has been obliged to give up work. For many years he held the unique 
position of being the only serious student of the WMorficularia, upon 
which group he is the highest authority, but for some time past his 
health has been failing, and a serious illness in the summer has left 
his right side paralysed. His retirement will be a great loss to students, 
though his greatest work is at this moment in the press. His collection 
of Forficularia has been acquired in part by the British Museum, and 
in part by Mr. Malcolm Burr. 
Brunner von Wattenwyl has published in pamphlet* form the main 
points of his great work ‘‘ Observations on the colours of Insects.’’+ 
In a handy little brochure, of 14 pages, with five plates, the author 
gives an outline of some of the more striking colour arrangements and 
patterns of the insect world. Though of course, less complete, especially 
* “Die Farbung der Insekten,” mit 5 Tafeln, von Karl Brunner von Wattenwyl 
(Vortrage des Vereines zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse in Wien, 
xxxix Jahrgang, Heft 11, Vienna, 1899.) 
+ ‘“Betrachtungen itiber die Farbenpracht der Insekten,” mit 9 Tafeln in 
Buntdriick, Leipsig, 1897. English Trans. by Edward J. Bles, B.Sc., King’s 
College, Cambridge, 1897. 
