THE YOUNG 



specimen of Mr. Marriotts, taken at Finch- 

 ley, 1876. The coppery band on the hind 

 wing varies, being very small on Mr. Steven's 

 dark specimen, named above, reduced to a 

 few red streaks on a specimen of Mr. Greg- 

 son's, and entirely wanting in another in the 

 same cabinet. These may be called natural 

 changes, but many very abnormal varieties 

 exist. Mr. Gregson and Mr. Sidebottom 

 have each one with the forewings like Sch- 

 midtii, but the hind wings are of the normal 

 form. Mr. Gregson has another with 

 only a part of one forewing silvery, and 

 all the rest as usual, and others similar 

 exist in other collections, Mr. Bond has 

 a wonderful variety, which has the 

 black spots and copper portions of 

 the wing as usual, but the costa and hind 

 margin of the forewing and basal portion of 

 the hind wing are smoky grey. Mr Side- 

 botham has one with the whole half of 

 the fore wing dark smoky. This was 

 taken at Colchester, where he also got a 

 dark one similar to that of Mr. Steven's, 

 named above. Mr. Vaughan has one, in 

 which the coppery portion of the wing is 

 pale smoky brown, with the veins of the 

 forewing paler ; but the two most extraordin- 

 ary aberrations are in the collections of Mr. 

 Stevens and Mr. S. Webb. Mr. Stevens' 

 specimen has all the wings pale smoky red, 

 the hind margin of the forewings, and basal 

 portion of the hind wings, smoky grey, the 

 red band of the hind wing being very pale 

 grey. The locality of this specimen is not 

 known. Mr. Webb's specimen is still more 

 wonderful and more difficult to describe in 

 words. The costa and hind margin of the 

 forewing, usually black, are pale drab, the 

 spots are paler, and the veins are also paler 

 drab, giving the insect a reticulated appear- 

 ance. The hind wings are all pale drab, 

 except that there are a few small red spots 

 to indicate where the band should be. 

 Other named forms given in Kirby are 

 Chinensis, Feld, occuring at Shanghai; 



NATURALIST. 261 



Pseudo phloeas, Que., from Abyssinia; 

 Americana, D'Urb., from Massachusets, and 

 Hypophlaas Boisd, from California. I am not 

 acquainted with any of these except Ameri- 

 cana, which is orange yellow instead of 

 copper colour, but does not differ so much 

 as many British specimens that are not 

 considered to be worthy of being called 

 varieties. 



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 Terrace, West Hartlepool; or to S. L. Mosley, Beau- 

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EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates. — Fine specimens of Nebu- 

 losa, Herbida, &c, also hand-painted 

 drawings of 40 remarkable varities of Caja, 

 on cards suitable for albums. Desiderata 

 Larvae. — S. L. Mosely, Beaumont Park, 

 Huddersfield. 



NOTES, &c. 



A. Alni Bred.— On June 1st a beautiful 

 Acronycta Alni emerged from a chrysalis 

 which we had found in the autumn. 



A. leporina.— On July 6th, we took a 

 beautiful specimen of Acronycta Leporina 

 at rest on a birch tree.-R. Prescott Decie, 

 Brockleton Court, Tenbury, Worcestershire. 



Yellow variety of Z. Filipendulje. — I 

 am pleased to be able to record that I have 

 bred two specimens of the yellow variety of 

 Z.filipendida. The first emerged on Saturday, 

 the 2nd of July, and the other the next day. 

 I only had about thirty pupae. I have been 

 particularly fortunate with this variety ; 

 for the first year I collected I bred one and 

 captured another, which I gave to Messrs. 

 Gardiner and Robson here,— J. J. Dixon, 

 Alliance street, Hartlepool. 



