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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
extremities of the fore wings, which are sometimes said to be found in 
varieties of fhamni. — James Warren, Jun., Capel House, Waltham 
Cross. 
Protective resemblance in Iodis vernaria larvae. — Referring 
to Mr. Hewett’s note {ante, p. 138) on /. vernaria larvae, what strikes 
me as interesting (from my own observations) is that they hatch green, 
turn brown in the autumn, hybernate that colour, retain it in the spring, 
until, with their last skin, they re-assume the bright green colour of the 
newly-hatched larvae, which they retain in the pupal stage. The ova 
are also most interesting, flat, cylindrical, and deposited one upon 
another in little steeples of about ten in each, looking, under a glass, 
like so many cheeses piled one upon another. — W. Farren, Cam- 
bridge. July, 1891. 
Mr. Farren is quite right about Iodis vernaria. I kept a female to 
lay, and the eggs are, or were, most extraordinary, and they hatched 
green. — G. M. A. Hewett, Winchester. 
^fOTES ON collecting, Etc. 
Notes of the Season. — Ca 7 nbridge. — In addition to my captures 
noted in the Record (p. 134), I have taken a nice set of Gelechia 
ncBinferella, Ditula hart 77 ianniana, A 7 itithesia salicella, and many odd 
things, macro and micro ; notably four specimens one evening of 
Xanthosetia zoegana yds. ferrugana on a dry bank in the Fen, no other 
specimens of the species being seen, typical or otherwise. They are 
very striking, their brown colour being so different to the yellow of the 
type. Bryophila wipar seems to have been scarce this year. I only 
took ten specimens, although I worked hard for them nearly every 
morning for over three weeks. Three were found on July 30th, the 
rest singly, with the exception of two on August 17th, and Messrs. Tutt 
and Porritt, who were with me on that day took one each. I captured 
the last one two days later. Nonagria neu 7 'ica has been conspicuous by its 
absence, partly owing to the weather having been too bad for me to go 
after it regularly. The only specimens I know to have been taken this 
year were two taken by Mr. Jones of this town last week. — W. Farren, 
Fern House, Union Road, Cambridge. August, 1891. 
The Island of Eigg. — On the loth of July, two or three hours spent 
in collecting on this island (situaW on the west coast of Scotland) 
resulted in the capture of the following eight species of insects : 
Vanessa urticce. Satyr us se 77 iele, Coenonympha pamphilus. Abraxas 
grossulariata, A 7 iaitis plagiata, E^ibolia Iwiitata, Ca 7 nptogra 77 ima 
bilimata, and Cidaria wunatiata. As the climate is extremely humid, 
I hoped to find some melanic varieties, but the i 77 i 7 na 7 iata alone exhibits 
much tendency in this direction. The two specimens of Vanessa urticce 
which I took are unusually large and well marked, but, on the other 
hand, the A. grossulariata are small and pale, measuring in fact but 
in. across the wings, while the same species taken here expands 
ij in., and Newman’s figure is nearly 2 inches. These insects were 
abundant, sitting on the fronds of the bracken — what the larva finds 
there to feed upon I do not know. On the mainland — in the neigh- 
bourhood of Arisaig — Erebia cethiops swarmed ; I took one handsome 
