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taken in moist places in Darentli Wood and the New Forest. 

 Stainton, in his " Manual of British Butterflies and Moths," 

 gives Lyndhurst, Newnham, and Sanderstead as localities. 

 Several specimens were taken by Mr. Norcombe in Devon- 

 shire, in 1858, and a little later Mr. Reading captured about 

 twenty-four near Plymouth ; but Mr. C. G. Barrett reports it 

 in some numbers from Pembrokeshire, and gives the date of 

 its appearance as the first half of the months of June and 

 August ; and he subsequently mentions that after losing sight 

 of it for ten years, he took about a score in 1881, and seven- 

 teen in 1884. 



Morris figures this species (PI. 54, No. 19) ; but the notes 

 given under this number evidently refer to Nascia cilialis, 

 Hb., figured under No. 17 on the same plate; and if we 

 assume that the figures have been transposed, as appears 

 probable, we find that he adds Plymouth and Arundel to the 

 above list. 



Mr. J. J. Weir exhibited a variety of Vanessa carduz, L.» 

 from Grahamstown, South Africa, with a row of white spots 

 on the primary and secondary wings, the latter having the 

 nervures thickly edged with black, widening into blotches on 

 the hind margin, and he stated that a similar variety was 

 sometimes taken in England. A white and black specimen 

 of Colzas electra, from the same locality, showing that that 

 species exhibited a similar dimorphic condition of the female 

 to that which obtains in Colzas edusa, Fb. ; two specimens of 

 Lyccena corydon, Fb., from Lewes, the fringes of all the wings 

 of one being spotless white, and of the other inky grey. Mr. 

 Weir then made a communication to the Society to the effect 

 that Mr. F. F. Freeman, of Plymouth, had informed him that 

 he had just seen a specimen of Anosia plexippus, L., taken by 

 Miss Whipple at Downderry, on the southern coast of Corn- 

 wall. Adverting to a note of Mr. G. D. Hulst, "Entomologica 

 Americana," ii. 104, August, 1886, in which it was stated that 

 the name of this insect as given above is that which the 

 British Museum gives to what the rest of the Lepidoptero- 



