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Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, narrowed towards 

 base, costa sinuate, apex pointed, termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; 

 pale yellow overlaid with purple-bronzy-ochreous, costal edge pale 

 yellow from f to f ; diseal stigmata remote, rather dark fuscous, an 

 additional dot beneath and rather before second, these two partially 

 surrounded with pale yellowish ; a slender terminal streak of purple- 

 fuscous suffusion ; cilia whitish-yellowish, on costa suffused purple- 

 ochreous, darkest above apex, on dorsum pale ochreous tinged 

 purple, cilia extending to before middle of dorsum. Hind wings 

 and cilia ochreous- whitish. 



Wellington, in March, one specimen swept from forest growth by 

 a young collector, Edward C. Clarke, aged 14, and kindly forwarded 

 by Mr. Hudson. It is permissible to hope that the discoverer of this 

 very interesting species may be thus early inaugurating a distinguished 

 entomological career. 



Thornhanger, 

 Marlborough ; 



October 31st, 1922. 



RECORDS FROM A SOUTH HAMPSHIRE LEPIDOP- 

 TERIST'S LOG-BOOK FOR 1920. 



By A. T. Postans. 



(Continued from p. 254.) 



The 20th was calm and cloudy with a south-west breeze 

 during the day. At sunset I went to the downs and sugared 

 posts. Grammesia trigrammica and Mamestra dentina came in 

 abundance, and I took one female M. genistae, but there was 

 little else. My net gave me one or two Phibalapteryx vitalbata 

 and a male Agrotis cinerea, whilst Amoebe viridaria was flying 

 commonly and in superb condition. The 23rd was a beauti- 

 fully calm, sunny day, and the warmest of the year as yet. 

 I spent the day in the woods, and saw numerous C. ruin, 

 in fresh condition, disporting over short herbage in company 

 with Euclidia glyphica, E. mi, Aricia medon, etc., also several 

 P. cardui and V. io. Beating produced E. liastata, Epione 

 advenaria, etc., but this method of collecting was not so produc- 

 tive as it sometimes is. Larva-beating likewise was not very 

 encouraging; however, I obtained a few small Z. betulae from 

 sloe, and small larvae of Cucidlia verbasei were common on mullein. 

 The 24th was another bright day, and being a bank holiday 

 I went to the woods in another locality to look over the imagines 

 of Brenthis euphrosyne for varieties, but, although typical speci- 

 mens were numerous, I saw none worth taking. 1 netted a few 

 Nemeobius lucina, a solitary Hemaris fusifonnis, and Lithosi t 

 sororcula, but nothing else. I do not remember observing a 

 single specimen of C. rubi all day in this locality. 



