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C. Xerampelina v. Unicolob. — /imong the Xerampelina taken by Mr. 

 Meldrum, of Ripon, this year, in an example of the variety TJnicolor. The 

 entire wings are as described, reddish-orange, the dark band is wanting, but 

 two yellow lines show its place. It is rather a small specimen, and slightly 

 damaged in the hindwings, but it is an interesting addition to my series, 

 Mr. Meldrum having most kindly given it to me. — Joh^ E. Robson, 

 Hartlepool. 



Calocampa Exoleta. — Is it generally known that the larva of this species 

 will eat the blossoms and leaves of the Scarlet Geranium ? Two noble larvse 

 were found this summer on plants growing close to this house. In confine- 

 ment they preferred the blossoms to the leaves, but at both ate freely, and in 

 due time produced fine imagines. — (Mrs.) E. S. Hutchinson, Grantsfield. 



Ennomos Euscantaria. — I had the pleasure of rearing this pretty insect 

 this year. I found a larva crawling up the trunk of an ash tree in Newby 

 Park, Bipon, after a gale of wind, from which on the 28th September, I bred 

 a fine imago. This is the second time I have found the larva under similar 

 circumstances. — Thomas Meldrum, Ripon. 



Eupithecia sitccenturiata. — To find this larva beat corner patches of 

 the food-plant. Should this fail, gather all the dead leaves at the base 

 of the stems, strip them off and examine them at night. If, however, 

 you beat the plant from 10th to 20th September, you ought to find the larva. 

 It is long and slender, and is very often ichneumoned. — C. S. Gregson, 

 Liverpool. 



Melanic Yariety of Melanippe Montanata. — Mr. Meldrum, of 

 Ripon, has brought for my examination a melanic variety of the common 

 Silver-ground Carpet, taken by Mr. Waite, in June, 1886, in a lane near 

 that city. It is a very extreme form, the whole of the wings being dark, 

 unicolorous, greyish-black. At first sight it appears to be devoid of mark- 

 ings, but on closer examination, the central band may be distinctly seen as a 

 darker shade across the centre of the wing. Those who are familiar with 

 melanic forms of Arctia caja y will know how the pattern of the forewings, 

 and the spots on the hindwings, appear on the unicolorous surface. In the 

 same manner the central band appears on this specimen, but perhaps scarcely 

 so distinctly. — John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



Semabia Wosbebana. — I should hardly call this a southern insect. It 

 occurs freely in my garden, and feeds in the trunks of old pear trees. I 

 have no old apple trees, but plenty of old plums, none of the latter, however, 

 are attacked by this species. — Philip B. Mason, Burton-on-Trent. 



