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which is only about 100 yards over the Derbyshire border, the insect 

 never having been taken in North Staffordshire before. The nearest 

 recorded captures are Market Drayton and Eepton. Could any 

 reader of the Entomologist tell me if the following variety of 

 Euchloe cardamines has been named. In all cases but one that 

 I have seen the insect is of typical size and has the ordinary 

 markings, but, in addition, a distinct black spot on each hind wing. 

 The exception, however, is a $ of the hesperidis form, which is 

 absolutely ordinary with the exception of very heavy basal spots 

 on the fore wings and the same curious black spots on the hind 

 wings. This is certainly no fresh occurrence, as the following 

 dates of occurrence indicate : 9 /■ hesperidis, Denstone, June 4th, 

 1922 ; $ , Denstone, during May, 1922 ; <$ , Dovedale, by Mr. T. 

 Smith, during June, 1920. Also there is one 9 in the Daltry 

 Collection without data. I should be interested to hear if other 

 specimens of this variety have been taken. The extraordinary large 

 number of Pieris napi of the sabellicae form that have been flying in 

 this district this year also is worthy of record. Nearly 25 per cent, 

 of the P. napi flying in May were melanic. — Guy Stanton ; Den- 

 stone College, Rocester, Staffs. 



A Record Capture of Blues (antea, p. 211). — On August 29th 

 I went to a clover field at the foot of Wolstonbury Hill (Sussex 

 Downs) to look for C. croceus. At one spot in the rough grass 

 margin of the field, covered with flowering knap-weed, thistles, rag- 

 wort, etc., and bounded by a hedge of holly, privet and whitethorn, 

 we netted six species of blues within a few paces. They were 

 L. astrarche, icarus, bellargus, corydon, argiohts, and minima. This, 

 I think, goes one better than your correspondent. — (Major) J. J. 

 Jacobs ; Holmesleigh, Burgess Hill, Sussex, September 12th, 1922. 



Two Gynandromorphs of Argynnis paphia taken in the New 

 Forest. — On July 18th Mr. W. S. Brocklehurst took a paphia with 

 left wings male and right the typical female, and on July 24th- I 

 took one with the left wings male and the right var. valezina. Both 

 were in perfect condition. — W. Gifford Nash ; Clavering House, 

 Bedford. 



Teratological Specimen of Catocala nupta. — On September 

 3rd I took a specimen of G. nupta on a fence here with the left-hand 

 uncler-wing of an extremely light red, merging into almost yellow in 

 the centre, the colouring of the other wings being normal. — George 

 C. Holroyd ; " Ganges Lodge," Oriental Road, Woking. 



Labidura riparia, Pallas. — While spending the first two weeks 

 of August at Bournemouth I hunted up the giant shore-earwig — 

 Labidura riparia, Pallas — and was pleased to find it fairly common. 

 Examples were to be met with under stones in the daytime, from 

 the water's edge up to the foot of the sand cliff, and in all stages of 

 development from nymphs f in. long to full-grown adults. On 

 the sand the young nymphs are much more difficult to see than 

 the adults, as the markings which are dark in the adult are very 

 faint in the young. These nymphs when exposed to the light 

 run very swiftly away; the adults either crouch down flat on the 



