4i0 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Varieties of Limenitis Sibylla and Argynnis Paphia. — I 

 have had the good fortune to take three of the black variety 

 of Limenitis Sibylla this year, and a good variety of a male 

 Paphia, very similar to the one figured in ' British Butter- 

 flies.' I may mention Mr. Farn has seen the latter, and 

 thinks it a very good one ; but it is, I am sorry to say, not 

 perfect. — Edward F. Bisshopp. 



necla W-Alhum at Bristol. — T. W-Album has occurred 

 in tolerable plenty the last two seasons in the larval state, 

 feeding on wych elm, at Coombe Glen, Bristol. — F, D. 

 Wheeler ; 2, Chester Place, St. Giles, Norwich, August 11, 

 1871. 



Larva of Argiolus. — While reading the account given in 

 your 'British Butterflies' of the life-history of Argiolus, it 

 occurred to me that the following particulars might be worth 

 noting. I find on referring to my journal, that while beating 

 ivy for moths at Bristol, in the autumn of 1869, I took, 

 on October 9th, one larva of P. Argiolus, and, on October 

 lllh and 13th, two more, all of which turned to pupae 

 November 1st to 3rd, and in that state passed the winter. 

 One of them died; the other two emerged in April, 1870. 

 Again, in September last year, I took another small larva on 

 ivy, at Norwich, which, however, died before arriving at 

 maturity. I think this tends to prove the existence of at 

 least two broods in the year, which is rendered more probable 

 by the freshness of the April specimens, very difl"erent from 

 what we should expect in hybernated insects. Both my 

 bred specimens were females, and both crippled in the hind 

 wings. — Id. 



Lyccena Salmacis in Berwickshire —Berwickshire seems to 

 be a pretty good county for butterflies and moths, but being 

 a beginner, and having little time at command, I have made, 

 as yet, comparatively few captures. On Monday the 10th, 

 however, having a half-holiday, 1 captured what I thought to 

 be Arlaxerxes, having heard that it occurred in the neigh- 

 bourhood, but which I find on looking up to be Salmacis, 

 having the scalloped bar on the upper wings, and wanting 

 th^ central spot on the under wings. I saw one specimen of 

 Blandina, which I failed to capture ; while 1 caught five 

 specimens of Aglaia in grand condition. — F. Burder ; 

 DunsCf July 19, 1871. 



