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green, with a black dash on the summit of each lobe. Legs purplish 
black. First pair of prolegs purple; anal prolegs green. Var. 3. Pale 
green, the sides broadly shaded with hazel-brown, forming an irregular 
series of pale green dorsal and lateral blotches. Head and legs black, 
face green. Both pairs of prolegs tinged with dark purplish brown. 
Belly purplish or hazel-brown with a paler or greenish central band. 
All the varieties graduate into each other. — C. Fenn. March 2nd, 1891. 
Dianthcecia carpophaga and D. capsophila. — I think this 'latter 
was claimed as a species in 1868, bred specimens were given me by 
Dr. Warren Wright in 1869, and the insect challenged as a species the 
same year. Mr. Gregson entered very warmly into the matter, and his 
series now before me is so thoroughly graduated that 1 will defy any- 
one to point out the border-line between one and the other. I bred 
specimens identical with the darkest Manx capsophila from sweet- 
william heads out of my garden last year. Where we find one species 
of lepidoptera, corresponding with the larva and imago of another 
so-called species, I am content to consider them identical. — Sydney 
Webb, Dover. February, 1891. 
Eupithecia albipunctata var. angelicata. — Last September I 
took a fair quantity of larvae of this species at Bishop’s Wood, which 
are now coming out. A large percentage of them are the W2cc. angelicata. 
It is strange that there are no intermediate forms ; the two are quite 
distinct, and had the larvae not been carefully examined, I should be 
inclined to think that it is a separate species, but no difference was 
noticed, except the usual variation in colouring. — George Jackson, 
1 15, Nunnery Lane, York. 
I am now breeding Eupithecia albipunctata var. angelicata from larvae 
collected in Askham bog. So far, about one-third are of the variety. 
The old idea of its having been confined to Bishop’s Wood has therefore 
proved to be incorrect. The variety is figured in the Entomologist, vol. 
xi., August, 1878. — G. Dennis, n. Tower Street, York. May ^th, 1891. 
. [The figure in the Entojjiologist, taken from a specimen bred by Mr. 
Prest, who obtained the larvae at Bishop’s Wood, Selby, is not at all a 
satisfactory one, and until bred by Mr. Dennis from Askham, was sup- 
posed by the York collectors to be restricted to Bishop’s Wood. A 
parallel black variety of E. virgaureata is, I believe, bred at Burton-on- 
Trent, and similar melanic vars. of this latter species are occasionally 
taken by the Paisley collectors. — Ed.] 
Erratum. — Page 7, line ii from bottom, for Xanthia aurago vox . 
fuscata, read Xanthia aurago fucatal’’ 
^fOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 
Early Spring Notes. — Wisbech. — In company with a young friend 
— Mr. F. Glenny — I left Wisbech early on Easter Monday, for a day’s 
pupae digging just over the boundary of the adjoining county of 
Norfolk. We had not gone far before we found we had got a tough 
job before us, and one which would require a little enthusiasm to 
help us through : the wind blowing a gale from the north, with oc- 
