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Prof. Hudson Beare sailed by the steamship " Euripides," for 

 Australia, on July 1st, and will not be back till the end of November. 

 We hope to get an account of his entomological experiences. 



In the Bull. Soc. Knt. Fnmce is a short but interesting account of 

 Coennnijnipha oedipiis, with a plate of a dozen varied forms. M. Gelin 

 has been accustomed to take this species for many years past among 

 the dense vegetation of the marshes of Sevre Niortaise, la Charent, la 

 G^onde and I'Adour on the west Atlantic coast of France. He says 

 that the females are large and very strongly marked on the underside, 

 the band inside the ocelli on the hindwings being much emphasised, 

 characteristic of ab. )////-/,s. Fab. Usually the upperside of the hind- 

 wings has three or four ocelli, that of the forewings being generally 

 without. M. Gelin names a form in which there' are four incipient 

 ocelli on the latter and four well developed ones on the former as ab. 

 ocdlarls. It is noted that M. Oberthlir in IJpiil. cmup., iii., 397, names 

 a Boisduvalian form in which all the ocelli are of a deep velvet with 

 white pupillation, as ab. i/elini. M. Gelin calls attention to and figures 

 the form named by him in 1912 as ab. lucasi, in which there is com- 

 plete absence of ocelli on the upperside of all four wings. 



In a paper published in the Bull. Soc Ent. Fiance, p. 182, M. 

 Gelin gives notes on new and rare forms of French Rhopalocera. 

 (1) He names an aberration of the brilliant race coclestia, Obtr., of 

 Aj/riadea thetis {hellar//ns) indigenous over the calcareous area of the 

 Atlantic coast of France, as ab. hiculor, characterised by black scales 

 being grouped and concentrated in the intraneural spaces. (2) He 

 figures two specimens he calls hermaphrodites of A. thetis, in one of 

 which the dark female ground colour is streaked irregularly on all the 

 wings, while in the other specimen the brown colour of the female 

 predominates, the male coloration only showing in a few scattered 

 scales and streaks. (8) He names an aberration of the ftipu/rapha 2 

 form of Aipiades coridnn as ab. uhertlniri, characterised by considerable 

 scattered dark coloration in the bright blue area of the wings and by 

 very pronounced discoidal spots on all the wings. (4) An evident 

 teratological and small specimen of I'ieiis hrasnicae with elongated 

 wings is named ab. elowjata, and another small specimen with total 

 absence of the inner marginal black line on the forewings and the 

 costal spot on the hindwings, as ab. colli nrensis. 



In the Canadian Entoniolot/ist for April, A. W. Hanham gives his 

 experience of sunflowers as a lure for moths. Last autumn in Duncan, 

 British Columbia, he took no less than eleven species of the Noctuid 

 family Plnsiidae, as well as many other species at these flower heads. 



In the Bevue Mens. Nanntr., M. I'Abbe J. de Joannis, in discussing 

 the forms of Ellopia prosapian'a, especially the forms var. prasinaiia 

 (green) and var. grisearia (grey), says that the former does not occur 

 around Paris, and suggests to M. Guerin, who has taken and bred all 

 three forms around Raismes, Belgium, that he should carry out his 

 breeding with a view to obtain, if possible, some Mendelian result. 

 M. de Joannis considers that probably the type form (rose) is the 

 dominant, and that the prasinaria from (green) is the recessive. 



In the Ent. Mo. Ma;/, for May, Mr. D. Sharp describes a new 

 species of Coleoptera, Helophurus ytenensis, which he has dift'erentiated 

 from its very close ally, tl. (jranularis. It was first taken in 1869 in 

 Dumfries-shire, but is apparently very rare although occurring also in 



