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a female with a widened black border of fore wings, with 

 extended dashes to the two black spots on the disk — these 

 are also united by a black suffusion. The whole of the base 

 and costa are exceptionally dark. It comes very near var. 

 Wollastoni, figured in Seitz's " Macrolepidoptera of the 

 World," as a Madeira form of our scourge of cabbage gardens. 

 I should also relate that I saw one Vanessa io. This beautiful 

 species the " Peacock " I can hardly think is always with us. 

 For years together it is not seen, and when seen only one or 

 two in a season. I do not think I could have taken, had I 

 wished it, ten specimens in the 36 years I have lived here. 

 So conspicuous an insect can hardly be overlooked. The 

 extraordinary quantity of the " Meadow Brown," Epinephile 

 jitrtina, is worthy of remark. A patch of ragwort some 

 twelve feet across in a neglected front garden of a cottage at 

 Torteval was one morning alive with these butterflies. They 

 were literally in hundreds. I examined them carefully for 

 aberrations and all wereju?*tina, with the exception of a single 

 male E. tithonus. 



ADDITIONS TO OUR GUERNSEY LIST. 



Pieris brassicse, var. Wollastoni (?). 

 Eumorpha elpenor, as larva, 

 Scotosia dubitata. 

 Noctua subsequa. 

 Hyponomeuta plumbellus. 



Frank E. Lowe, F.E.S., 



Secty. Entom. Section. 



Report of the Ornithological Section, 1915. 



All unconscious of the deadly conflict raging in Europe, 

 without passport, let, or hindrance, the birds have come to 

 us as usual this summer from far distant climes. The 

 ChifF-Chaff has uttered its sweetly melodious note in the 

 tree tops, the Cuckoo and the Wryneck have proclaimed 

 their presence in the same old way, we have seen and 

 heard Swallows and Swifts, and watched their aeriel frolics. 

 The arrival and sojourn with us for a while of these and 

 other feathered visitors has gladdened our over burdened 

 lives this year as never perhaps before. For have we not 

 envied them their freedom of travel, above all the happiness 

 and gladness revealed so clearly, to those who have eyes 

 to see and ears to hear, in the joyousness of their song 

 and the lightheadedness of their movements. 



