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from other sources that I was mistaken, and have ascertained the range 

 of P. Glaucus, £.,to be more northern than I. had believed. The larva 

 and pupa of both as drawn by Abbott are identical. Henceforth the 

 name Glaucus must be dropped. The merit of the discovery belongs 

 not to any scientific naturalist, but to one whose only book has been 

 the best of all books — that of Nature. 



Genus. — Lobophora . 



Lobophora polycommata. There is a misstatement in Mr. Hum- 

 phreys' ' British Moths,' relative to a specimen of this insect in the 

 33ritish Museum, and which is figured in that work. Mr. Westwood 

 states that this specimen belongs neither to the genus nor the species. 

 Now the correct figure is from the Museum specimen, the incorrect 

 one from Hubner, the error being in copying Hubner's figure, Geom. 

 89, which is A. iEscularia, by mistake for his fig. 90, which is L. po- 

 lycommata. Of this fact Mr. Westwood is well aware. Why the 

 reference to the figure was reversed I cannot say. 



Edward Doubleday. 



Note on a remarkable Variety of Hipparchia Galathea. At the latter end of last 

 July I captured a very remarkable variety of the common Hipparchia Galathea, in a 

 field on the heights between Dover and Walmer. The specimen is a male, of a clear 

 milky white colour, and has not, on either the upper or under side of its wings, the 

 smallest speck of black. Its thorax, abdomen and palpi are also entirely clothed with 

 white. The varieties of this insect heretofore described appear to have been more than 

 usually suffused with black or dark brown. My specimen so decidedly agrees with 

 Galathea in form, that I have no hesitation in referring it to that species, which was 

 very abundant at the spot. It is in perfectly fine condition. — Thos. Marshall ; Kin;) 

 William St., City, November 4, 1843. 



Note on a singular Variety of the large Cabbage Butterfly. The enclosed sketch is 

 of an unusual variety of a male 

 Pontia Brassicce. It was cap- 

 tured in a garden in Leicester 

 last year, and is now deposited 

 in our local cabinet'at'the mu- 

 seum of the Philosophical So- 

 ciety. — J. Plant ; Leicester, 

 January 17, 1844. 



Note on the occurrence of 

 Colias Edusa in the Isle of 

 Wight. The following record 

 of my own brief experience of 



the periodical appearance of Variety of the large Cabbage-butterfly. 



Colias Edusa may be considered as rather corroborative, than otherwise, ?! the quad- 



