366 NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
summer to no purpose, but on a sunny but breezy afternoon
towards the end of August I was on Sandy Point, St. Osyth, and
noticed a solitary io hovering over a patch of sea lavender. This
specimen, on being boxed, proved to be the long-sought for
cyanostica. I carefully examined a large number of specimens
until the middle of September, but could not find another.
Vanessa atalanta and V. Urticae were common in the clover-
fields, but I saw only two C. cardui.—B. G. Cole, Buck-
hurst Hill.
Aberrations of Epinephele Janira and E. Tithonus.—
At St. Osyth last August I met with two or three nice
aberrations of these species. E. janira was, of course, very
abundant. Two specimens of the female were caught, in which
the usual fulvous patch was of a yellowish-white colour. Among
the thousands of E. tithonus which were fluttering over the
blackberry bushes I picked out a female specimen, the left
forewing of which was of a silvery-white colour, the other wings
being normal. In meadows, near Chigwell Row, occurred (in
1902) a male of E. janira in which the light patches were
putty-coloured.—B. G. Cole, Buckhurst Hill.
BOTANY.
Uncommon Plants in Epping Forest.—Among the
plants observed in recent years by the students of the Leyton
County School are, Orobanche major, on roots of broom, Epping
Forest, near Cook's Folly, 1902 ; Utricularia (vulgaris ?), common
in ponds in Epping Forest, 1903-4 ; Bee Orchis, Ophrys apifera,
Epping Forest, June 19th, 1904., Miss L. Berry. The
Utricularia has not been observed in flower.—T. Petch, Ley-
tonstone.
GEOLOGY.
Changes in the Essex Coast.—For several years the
British Association has been receiving, by permission of the
Admiralty, systematic reports from the Coastguards, with
reference to changes in the coast of Great Britain. A great
mass of matter has thus accumulated in the form of tabular
returns, and an analysis of this material, by Mr. John Parkinson,
has recently been published by the Association. The following
is the only information given with regard to Essex :—
" Concerning the coast from Harwich to the Roach River, observations from