. British naturalist. i»93-] THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 17 Any hymenopterists, who may be present this evening, will be interested to learn that a species of Bombus was observed flying briskly about a sunlit slope at the very head of this Furka Pass— 8,000 feet above sea level. Before retiring for the night, a short stroll was taken to the point of the Rhone valley fortifications, whence, under the light of the full moon, we had a view of the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa, and other peaks of that grand range of Alps. (To be continued). RANDOM NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. BY JOHN E. ROBSON, S
. British naturalist. i»93-] THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 17 Any hymenopterists, who may be present this evening, will be interested to learn that a species of Bombus was observed flying briskly about a sunlit slope at the very head of this Furka Pass— 8,000 feet above sea level. Before retiring for the night, a short stroll was taken to the point of the Rhone valley fortifications, whence, under the light of the full moon, we had a view of the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa, and other peaks of that grand range of Alps. (To be continued). RANDOM NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. BY JOHN E. ROBSON, Some time ago Mr. McRae, of Bournemouth, sent round in the Ex- change Club Basket connected with this Magazine, some very beautiful varieties of Cosmia trapezina. The most striking of these he kindly lent me for figuring, and after an unprecedented series of accidents, in which drawing, engraving, everything in fact but the insect itself, was lost, 1 am at last enabled to present it to my readers. Though the figure is a very good one, it really does not convey an idea of the extreme beauty of the specimen itself. In colour it is pale-fawn, with the band deep velvetty black, very slightly sprinkled with fawn- coloured scales. It was taken at sugar in the New Forest, on 12th August, 1888. Concerning its capture Mr. McRae writes :—"It presented an appearance so totally unlike Trapezina that I had no idea it was that species until I had examined it on the following day. 1 took three or four other specimens off the same tree, at the same time, all having the band unusually dark, and all probably belonging to the same brood. In August, Trapezina usually swarms at sugar in the New Forest. I have often counted fifty or sixty on one tree, with an almost equal number of Pyramided" I have seen some of these specimens, and no doubt they would be considered very good varieties, were it not that they are so completely eclipsed by the specimen figured, which is probably the gran
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