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able to the same species, merely differing from the type in having slightly longer 

 elytra. It has been suggested that S. oscillator may be a hybrid between 

 S. latifrons and 8. paganus ; but neither Eye nor any other Coleopterist appears 

 to have observed the extraordinary close resemblance to S. bifoveolatus, with 

 which it agrees in every respect except in the incompletely margined hind body 

 The femoi-a and tibiae it is true are black in S. oscillator, but amongst my series 

 of S. bifoveolatus there is one (a 9 ) from Woking, with the legs similarly 

 coloured. It is probable that the two examples of the former are of the female 

 sex. — G. C. Champion : March, 1913. 



Coleophora agrammella. Wood, in Sussex. — In 1892 Dr. John H. Wood 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. XXVIII, p. 282, et seq.) brought forward a spocies, new to 

 science, of the rush-feeding section of the genus Coleophora, to which lie gave 

 the name of agrammella. This insect he took in the neighbourhood of Ledbury, 

 Herefordshire, and till last year, I believe, it has not occurred elsewhere. 

 When on May 18th, 1912, my brother, H. Leonard Sich, took me to a deep lane 

 leading to a wood in the Hailsham district, I disturbed a small pale Coleophorid 

 from a rixsh plant. It was not C. murinipennella and the date appeared to be 

 too early for C. casspititiella, and thus the long sought for C. agrammella came 

 to mind. We re- visited this lane on the same day at diisk and secured over a 

 dozen specimens. We fovmd them flying qiiietly, and frequently resting on the 

 herbage. From the ringed antennae, I felt sure of their identity, and a 

 subsequent examination of the ventral plate of the 8th abdominal segment in 

 the female, proved them to be C. agrammella. To make doubly sure, I 

 forwarded a pair to Dr. Wood, who agreed as to their identity. Having now 

 come across this species, I shall hope to fiind it in other localities. — Alfred 

 Sich, Corney House, Chiswick, W. : March 5th, 1913. 



Phoxopteryx biarcuana : a correction. — My thanks are due to Mr. A. Thurnall 

 for suggesting that I recorded Phoxopterijx inornatana erroneously as P. biar- 

 cuana in Ent. Mo Mag., February, 1913, p. 35, and for confirming his suggestion 

 by examining the specimens in question. — H. G. Champion, New College, 

 Oxford: March 9th, 1913. 



Conveyance of a semi-apterous female moth by the male. — Concerning 

 Mr. Porritt's remarks (Ent. Mo. Mag., March, 1913) on the conveyance of 

 apteroiis and semi-apterous females by their males, it may be worth mention 

 that while collecting in the evening of April 7th, 1909, in this district, a male 

 Hyhernia marginaria was disturbed out of a fence conveying an attached 

 female flying high, and some little distance before capture. As the pair were 

 disturbed into moving, this is of course only evidence that the male can carry 

 a female if so disposed, but it would seem that Mr. Porritt's supposition as to 

 the method of distribution of this and some other species in which the females 

 are apterous or semi-apterous, is strengthened thereby. — Rupeet Stenton, 

 St. Edwards, St. Mary Church, Torquay : March lOth, 1913. 



Note on the distribution of Polygonia-c-album. — In view of the gradual 

 disappearance of this butterfly, which was once fairly widespread in England 



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