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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
Variety of Epinephele janira. — On the 28th of July I took a 
curious variety of this insect. It was a ? . The upper wings are much 
darker than usual, being almost black, whilst the under wings are nearly 
white. The upper part of the right underwing is slightly drab in colour, 
but in the rest of this wing and in the whole of the other underwing 
the colouring matter seems to be entirely absent, as if it had all got into 
the upper wings. I beat this insect out of a hedge, and its appearance 
when flying was most peculiar, the contrast between the two pairs of 
wings being so marked. —John Williams Vaughan, Jun., The Skreen, 
Radnorshire, Erwood, R.S.O. August 22nd^ 1891. 
Varieties of Saturnia pavonia (carpini). — I have this season 
bred some of the strangest aberrations of this species, reared from 
larvae taken on the Longmynds, the principal range of hills here. The 
first to emerge of this species was a very dark <^ , which I propose to 
call ah. infu 7 nata., owing to the very dark colour of all the wings, this 
dark shade has so far invaded the whole colouring, that it has nearly 
expelled the ordinary orange colour from the hind-wings. Of this ah. 
I obtained two (Js. In a very diminutive pair, ^ and ?, a brilliant 
rosy-crimson has suffused the principal markings ; this colour so far 
predominating that the bluish part of the crescent of the eye is altogether 
wanting, and this crescent reduced to a broad rich crimson arc. The 
usually serrated line is scarcely indented at all, and broadly suffused 
with crimson. This charming ah. might well be styled rosacea. The 
larvae of pavonia also vary a great deal ; some have broad velvety rings 
around each segment ; in others these are reduced to small rings 
around each tubercle ; while the tubercles themselves offer a great 
many gradations. I have now feeding larvae with the following tuber- 
cular colours ; the type appears to be bright yellow, the next common 
colour is orange, then pink ; while white, black, and purple are of rarer 
occurrence. The foodplants appear to be in this neighbourhood, meadow- 
sweet {SpircEct ul? 7 iaria) in the valleys, and the two sorts of heath {Erica 
tetralix and E. cwe 7 'ea) on the hills. I find that the pupa often remains 
two years before yielding the imago. — F. B. Newnham, Church 
Stretton, Salop. 
Black var. of Melit^ea atahlia. — The weather in the “ Landes ” 
has been very stormy for some days, much rain and wind breaking 
down trees, but it is now pleasantly cool. WTen the sun is out, MelitcEa 
athalia is in swarms, especially on the flowers of heath. Only one black 
specimen with the red reduced to a marginal row of marks was seen. — 
T. A. Chapman. Septe 77 iber^ 1891. 
Luperina testacfa var. gueneei. On rearranging my L. testacea, 
I at once recognised a fine specimen of var. gueneei. It was taken, no 
doubt, by the late T. P. Brockholes, who used to collect on the banks 
of the Dee. It is identical with the only three taken at Rhyl. Mr. 
Baxter looked at it to-day, he noted it as distinct from his so-called 
7 iickerlii — var. incerta {British NocUke and their Varieties, vol. i., 
p. 140). — J. B. Hodgkinson, Ellerslie, Ashton-on-Ribble. J^uiy, 1891. 
Gynandrous specimen of Fidonia piNiARiA. — A friend of mine 
took a specimen of Fido 7 iia pmiaria this season, with the wings on one 
side the colour of a male and on the other side of the female; one of 
the antennae also being pectinated, the other simple. — James AV^arren, 
Jun., Capel House, Waltham Cross. 
