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the members of which now wish to get into touch with iepidopterists 

 of other countries for the purpose of exchanging specimens, and 

 of comparing observations, and I should be greatly obliged if, through 

 the medium of your journal, you could introduce us to some British 

 entomologists to whom we shall be pleased to send a list of the lepi- 

 doptera and insects of other orders, which we have for exchange. — 

 Raymond de Saussure, Geneva. Xovember 15t/i, 1910. 



Proposed new work on " British Galls." — I am preparing for 

 early publication a text-book of " British Galls." Will any of your 

 readers in any way l<indly help by advising me where to obtain speci- 

 mens of any lepidopterous galls for my artist to sketch ? I particularly 

 want to see the " galls " caused by Laveina decorella and Asijchna 

 aeratella. Ever}" care would be taken of the specimens, and they 

 would be returned as soon as possible. — E. W. Swanton, Brockton, 

 Haslemere. November lltli, 1910. 



A CURIOUS case of positive phototropism. — On September 9th, 1910, 

 at Holmesley, in the New Forest, I was working a light trap, and to 

 my intense surprise at 9.30 in the evening, on a dark night, a Bithyi^ 

 tjiierctis put in an appearance. I have seen \'aiiesf<a atalanta and Af/laia 

 nrticae flying at lamps in the street, and have had I'ieris napi come 

 to light early in the evening, but it had been dark for about 2^ hours 

 before />'. iinerciis came. Sunset was 6.27. — W. Parkinson Curtis^ 

 F.E.S., Aysgarth, Poole. December 8th, 1910. — [For a similar case 

 see A NatKral History of the British Lepidoptera, vol. Ix., p. 265. — Ed.] 



PoLYGONiA c-album IN THE New Forest. — On July 18th, 1909, Mr. 

 E. Harker Curtis captured the above insect sunning itself on an oak 

 bough. I can offer no explanation for its appearance, except the 

 hypothesis that some local breeder had allowed larvae to escape or put 

 pupfe down. According to my collecting experience of about 15 years. 

 }'. v-aibum is certainly not a Forest insect. — Ibid. 



Gastropacha ilicifolia not IN Devonshire. — With regard to my 

 record of this species in Devonshire on September 2nd last {antea, p. 

 240), I find I am wrong in calling the specimen (i . ilicifulia. It is one 

 of the Prominents, which I am not sure at present, although I fancy 

 it is I'tilophora ])lnmii/era. — W. J. Monk, Tavistock. Ik'cember 2»(/, 

 1910. 



®^URRENT NOTES. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice records {l\)it. Mo. Mat/.) Crabro (Coelucrabro) 

 inermis, Thomson, as a British species from specimens captured at 

 Clandon, August, 1900, and at Woodham, June, 1902, both 2 s ; also 

 Crabro {SoleniKs) larratiis, Wasm., from specimens taken in the New 

 Forest, June, 1900, and in the Woking district, June and July, 1899- 

 1902; he also distinguished Crabro {Cli/torhrysns) planifrons, Thorns., 

 as British on the strength of a single ? taken at Hillmorton, in 

 August, 1894. 



j\Ir. J. Collins records the capture of a pair of ('ouojis [Brachtj- 

 ijlossiwi) sii/uata, Wied., at Tubney, Berks, on September 11th last. 

 Mr. J. Collins gives some details of this latest addition to our list. 



Dr. D. Sharp adds Microdon et/tjeri, Mik., to the British list on the 

 strength of a single specimen captured at Rannoch early in June last, 

 he also adds Emoneara an/us, Zett., to the British list from a specimen 



