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time, N. centifnlieUa was mining the garden roses in Chiswick, A 

 week or so later the larvje of Coleophora arijentnla were gathered from 

 yarrow heads on the cliffs near Brighton. As usual, the year's pro- 

 ceedings were wound up with the capture of Tinea pallescentdla, but it 

 was rather late, being December 14th, and the moth occurred on a 

 lime trunk in a road instead of, as usual, in the house. — Alfred Sigh 

 (F.E.S.), Corney House, Chiswick. Janiiavji 25tk, 1915. 



CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



We learn that Mr. C. C. Best Gardner, F.E.S., has entered the 

 Admiralty Aeroplane Service. 



When last heard of Mr. K. G. Blair, F.E.S., was in Nq. 1 Con- 

 valescent Hospital at Boulogne. 



Mr. P. P. Graves, F.E.S., is now in Cairo, having with some 

 difficulty succeeded in getting away from Constantinople. 



Lieutenant Colonel Manders, R.A.M.C., has been for some time in 

 Egypt with the British forces. 



Dr. Burr, who is taking up an appointment in Russia, writes from 

 Stockholm. He says : "I am stopping here for a day en route for 

 Petrograd, and find it strange to be m a neutral country. The 

 hereditary fear of Russia inclines the Swedes, it seems, to sympathise 

 with Germany, though ready to listen to reasonable discussion of 

 pros and cons. I have enquired for news of enemy-entomologists and 

 am informed that Dr. Horn is at the front somewhere as a Regimental 

 Doctor; Dr. Speiser, who came to the Brussels and Oxford Congresses, 

 is a Doctor of a regiment of field artillery, he was in the advance 

 through Belgium, Aerschot, the Aisne and Ypres, and then moved on 

 to Poland." 



The volume of IJritish lA-jiidojitura left unfinished by the late Mr, 

 J. W. Tutt at his decease has now been finished, and is being delivered 

 to the subscribers. It is vol. xi. of the British Lepidoptera or vol. iv. 

 of British Butterfiies. We hope in a subsequent issue to publish a full 

 review of this important work. 



It will be remembered that previous to his turning his attention to 

 the British butterflies, Mr. Tutt had in vol. v. of British Lepidoptera 

 dealt with about half the species comprised in the family Aliicitides 

 [I'teroplid) ina). We have been unable to find among Mr. Tutt's papers 

 any material relating to the second half of this family, although there 

 must have been a considerable amount of MS. already accumulated 

 with the view of completion. Dr. Chapman has an amount of 

 microscopical and life-history matter relating to the remaining species, 

 which would no doubt be at the disposal of any one who would take 

 up the task of completing the section. The difficulty is, of course, to 

 find the student who has time, enthusiasm, and opportunity to com- 

 plete the monograph in the style of our lost friend, as the Rev. G. 

 Wheeler has so ably and successfully done in the recently published 

 vol. xi. with the British Lycienids. 



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London Natukal Histoky Socuety. — October 20th, 1914. — 



DiANTHCECIA LUTEAGO VAK. BARRETTII, AND BoARMIA REPANDATA, BRED. 



