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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
almost imagine himself fishing, rather than looking for “Burnets;’ 
however, I was very lucky in finding a yellow d' in cop. with a 
barred 2 , from which I also succeeded in obtaining ova, but unfor- 
tunately all the larvae are since dead. Like Mr. Abbott’s Z. filipendulce, 
my Z. trifolii is of a very beautiful lemon yellow, showing no trace 
whatever of red. 1 gathered a large number of cocoons, and was much 
pleased in breeding another pure yellow variety, but unfortunately it 
is somewhat a cripple, although quite good enough to keep. In 
addition to the above two varieties, I found on the next day, viz..^ the 
17th, two others which may fairly be said to be intermediate between 
the yellow form and the type, the first has the spots and underwings of 
a deep orange tinged with red, but still very different from the brilliant 
crimson of the type ; the second has the spots on the upper wing of 
the normal coloration, but the underwings of the deep orange red as in 
the first. Yet another curious form is one in which the top basal spot 
on the left wing is yellow, all the rest typical. I also found a number 
of the blotched varieties, although by no means as commonly as Mr. 
Abbott, the type being much the more prevalent. — W. Bond Smith, 
Potton. September^ 1891. [I took this yellow variety some years ago 
in North Kent, and named it luiescens in the Young Naturalist. — Ed.] 
Varieties of Polia chi in the Leeds district. — During the last 
three weeks I have taken a large number of this insect at rest on stone 
walls, never in any other position. I have taken only three good 
examples of the var. olivacea., but have fresh specimens of every shade 
connecting it with the type. A local collector told me that one in 
twelve was the usual proportion ; with me it has been about one in 
twenty-five. As to the form suffusa^ noted by Mr. Robson, it seems 
to be almost as common as the type, and, as we find in the case of 
olivacea., intermediate specimens occur. Mr. Carrington informed me 
that black ” chi were taken in a certain wood near Leeds ; so far, 
however, I have not met with this variety, though I possess some very 
dark suffusa. In var. suffusa the under-wings are smoky ; in var. 
olivacea they are white, with at most a small blackish blotch on the 
margin. — W. Mansbridge, Luther Place, Horsforth, near Leeds. 
Variety of Coremia ferrugata. — When collecting at Edlington 
Wood, near Doncaster, one day this spring, I captured a specimen of 
C. ferrugata^ in which the costal half of the normal purplish bar in the 
right wing is obliterated, its place being occupied by ferruginous, 
which thus forms a broad dash along the costal margin, the left wing 
being perfectly normal. The specimen is quite fresh and in good 
condition. — Id. 
Thyatira batis (type). — With reference to the note, Entom. Record, 
vol. ii., p. 108, I may say that two or three years ago I bred a Thyatira 
batis with the spots a delicate light brown, like that described by 
Mr. Alderson. It was the last to emerge of a few pupae which I had, 
and is without the faintest trace of the rosy colour of the ordinary 
form. This gives it somewhat of a “washed-out” appearance, and to 
my taste detracts considerably from its beauty. — Joseph Anderson, 
JuN., Chichester. 
Variety of the Larva of Smerinthus tili^e. — I had a rather 
curious variety of this larva, found on August 25th, which, instead of 
the normal green colour, was a dingy violet shade. I am not aware 
