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'The 



of 



group 

 contains a singular 



insects under the above name 

 medley : one species placed 

 here was long referred to the order Neuro- 

 ptera, one little group the Nojidae that contains 

 the Shoi't Cloaked is by many recent authors 

 and perhaps with reason referred to the Bomby- 

 cina, another little group the Choreutidae which 

 contains the Nettle Tap is placed by some among 

 the Tortricina and by othei'S among the Tineina, 

 in the Hydrocampidae or China Marks we meet 

 with the anomalous circumstance of aquatic le- 

 pidopterous larvae, one species indeed being fur- 

 nished with branchiae'. Mr. Stainton also notices 

 that in addition to the lines , which I once half 

 persuaded him were the fundamental wing pattern 

 of the moths and buttertlies suggesting descent 

 by variation from some ancient ancestor ; that 

 the Botydae posses the three stigma marks the 

 heart , dart and kidney spot, the escutcheons of 

 the progenitor of th" Noi'tuina. 



Consonantly the Pyralidina which are cosmo- 

 politan appear to be the descendant of a group 

 in which the scent fans were early developed for 

 they are here found in as strange positions as 

 the atom once the subject of a story, or tlie stray 

 scrap of paper that suggested the intrigue of a 

 comedy : one insensibly reverts to the days when 

 Asia was connected with northern America and 

 southern Asia was in nearer proximity with 

 Australia. Mr. W. Warren has told us that a male 

 of Bertiila biciliata, that flew to light at Gavio in 

 the l)asin of the Amazons on the 10 of November 

 1874 , has a membrane at the end of its palpi 

 clothed with silky hairs that were wont to ex- 

 pand and form a large fan, a means of fascina- 

 tion familiar to Spanish ladies ; Mr. Meryick has 

 discovered that the males of Mee.viia polygoualis 

 common in Southern Australia and Tasmania 

 have a groove on the tibiae of the middle legs 

 that contains an exertible tuft of woolly hair 

 and what is strange he mentions this species has 

 been found in vSouthern Europe: Sir (ienrge 

 Hampson remarks that Amtna trychostilalis 

 from Celebes has also this fold and tuft of long 

 hair on the tibiae of the middle pair of legs as 

 have likewise the species of Partheiiodes found 

 in India , Sambawa and New (luinea ; Ijut that 

 the males of Oligostigma and Aulacodes , rela- 

 tives of the China Marks of our English ponds, 

 and inhabiting India, China and Malaga ; as also 

 the male of Mixopiiila clirysias lound in Amboina, 

 Banda and (luinea, have their hind legs grooved 

 with tufts of yellow hair. So in I'egard to the 

 European Pyralidina the male of the White Spot, 

 Eun.vchia octomaculata, sometimes met with in 

 grassy woods has scent fans enclosed in a pouch 

 on its Vi^hite front legs ; and the male of Herminia 

 barbalis, that frequents bru.shwood has two fans, 

 one on the tibiae of the fore leg and another on 

 the first joint of its tarsus that confers a some- 



what comical aspect , Mr. Meldola has assured 

 us they diffuse a scent of jargonelle pear or amyl 

 acetate: its European cogeners have also acquired 

 names from their Fans which Mr. F. F. Pierce 

 finds are modified scales and on the Plume Moths 

 sometimes referred to this group the transition 

 of wing scales to hairs has been also noticed. 

 Further the male of Spectratrota fimbrialis found 

 in Australia has tufts of hair it is said at the 

 base of the fore wing ; and the males of Dayscopa 

 homogenes from x4.ssam and the Straits, Alnioiiia 

 trinicatalis from Ceylon and Java, and Mestolobes 

 abaormis from Hawaii , are said to liave tufts 

 on the hin.br. Arvea laticilia found in Venezuela 

 and referred by Mr. Butler to the Litliosiidae 

 has a radiating brush of liairs on its fore wings. 

 (to lie continupil.) 



.57 : OS 



Entomologische Neuigkeiten. 



Bei Lysiphlebus tritici. einem Parasiten von 

 Toxoptera gramineum, ist Parthenogenesis be- 

 obachtet worden. 



Die Eichenbestäude des waadtländer Jura 

 sind wieder vom Eichenwickler heimgesucht 

 worden. Die Invasion begann im Jahre 1903, 

 seit welcher Zeit der Frass jährlich stattfindet. 

 Es sind die Wälder bis Savoyen und die fran- 

 zösische Ebene betroffen. 



Isie Insektensammlung Dr. Ei'gimbarts ist zu 

 verkaufen. Auskunft erteilt Mdme. veuve 

 Régimbart, 12 rue de l'Horloge, à Evreux, 

 France. 



Herrn H. Schmitz in Maastricht ist es ge- 

 lungen, das 2 von Drilus flavescens Fourcr. aus 

 Gehäusen von Helix zu erhalten, diesen entnahm 

 er auch Puppen verschiedener Phora-Arten wie 

 maculata, bcrgenstammi, bohenianni und excisa. 



Calodera protensa Mann, ist der englisclien 

 Fauna als neu einzureihen. 



Halictus longulus Smith erweist sich als eine 

 kleine Form des H. malachurus Kirby. 



Eine Sammlung von Schmetterlingen aus den 

 Ardennen ist zu verkaufen durch R. Boxho in 

 Verviers. 



Briefl<asten der Redaktion. 



Herrn F. H. m K. Die liluiphidieii sind keine Dipteren, 

 sondern oeliöreu zu den Neuropteren in die Familie Sialidae. 



Herren Dr. B. in G., Seh. in 15., P. B. in H.. H. St. 

 in B.. Dr. v. H. in B., B. S. in B., AV. Si-li, in (i. Danke 

 für Einsendung von Manuskripten. 



Herrn J. St. in B. Erwarte weitere Sendungen; suclien 

 Sie soviele der Cocons als Ihnen möglich ist. 



Ersuche die Leser der „Societas entomologica" 

 mir Mitteilung zir machen , falls ihnen bekannt 

 sein sollte, an welchen Orten heuer eine Invasion 

 von GalernceUn luteola stattgehalit hat. 



M. Rühl. 



