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Forest is famous. In Wickcii Fen, the favourite food-plant is yellow 

 loosestrife, but it is there also found ou S/iirai'a nhiiaria, the snioolh- 

 leaved dwarf willow, and })rol)ably other i>lants, Init 1 have not seen it 

 on sallow, either there or elsewhere. In coniiuement, 1 have fed it 

 suecessfnlly upon sallow, birch, dock and lettuce. Those fed upon the 

 latter i)lants ))roduced the largest moths. — W. M. Christy, M.A., F.E.S., 

 Watergate, Enisworth. [A later note on this subject, from Mr. 

 Christy, will api)ear in our next No. — Ei>.] 



I once found the larviu of 7'. i/rarilis in gi'cat abundance in Hert- 

 fordshire, feedinij;' on white osier, and had no difficulty inrearinj>- them. 

 Some of the resulting iuiai^ines were very strongly marked. I have 

 since found the larviy on dwarf sallow, Ijut have had only moderate 

 success in getting them through to the imaginal state. — A. W. AIeua, 

 75*, Ca|)el Uoad, Fijrest Gate, E. 



Zy(1.^ena FiLiPENDULiE VAR. LUTESCENS. — A quantity o4' puptc of Z. 

 JUipoiduhte collected at AVrotham, Kent, on July 20th last, jjroduced 

 among many of the normal type, six of the yellow var. lutc.scois, the 

 red on all the wings being replaced by yellow. These emerged on 

 July 25th, 28tli, 2!)tli, August 5th, 7th (two), whilst the last api)eared 

 yesterday, x\ugust 2Sth. I have collected over the ground fourteen 

 years, and never knew the yellow form to occur tiiere before. — W. 

 Smart, 29, Siemen's lload, Woolwich. Auyust 2dth, 18ii8. 



®^URRENT NOTES. 



Lord Walsingham (K.M.M.) has added Aristotelia servella, Z., 

 to the Britisli fauna. Tlie specimens on which the identification of the 

 species as British lias been based were captured by Mr. E. A. Atmorc, 

 near King's Lynn. 



Mr. J\L L. Thomjjson, Diamond Street, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, York- 

 shire, asks {Nafuralist) for the hel}) of coleopterists in the completi(m 

 of the " List of Yorkshire Coleoi)tera," commenced by the Rev. W. C. 

 Hey, The group in hand at the present time is the Clavicornia, and 

 coleo])terists who have Yorkshire si)eciniens belonging to this division 

 are kindly requested to send particulars as to the ca})tnre as above. 

 Of course, in compiling a list, the records of the most common, are as 

 important as those of the most rare, s})ecies. 



A most exhaustive and excellent summary of the life-history, habits, 

 and distribution of Cicada septemlccim, by Mr. C. L. Marlatt, M.S., is 

 sent to us from the Government Printing Office, Washington, U.S.A. 



The division of entomology of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture has pul)lished a Bibliography of "The more important 

 contriljutions to American Economic Entomology," I't. vi., which 

 includes the more im})ortant contributions to this branch of knowledge 

 puljlished between June 30th, 1888, and December 30th, I8i)0. This 

 useful i)ublication has been prepared by ]\Ir. Nathan Banks. Tiie 

 catalogue runs to 273 pp., has a good index, and will be exceedingly 

 useful to all those })ractically interested in the subject of economic 

 entomology. 



.Mr. Kane notes the occurrence of l'/<ifi/j)ti/i(i, tt'ssrradachjid, from 

 Ardrahan, ClonJjroek, and Dromoland Castle, eo. (Mare. He rennirks 

 that it is easily disturbed from its food-plant, .luti'iinaria diuica on a 

 sunny day. 



