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Change of name of a palaarciic Pyrale. — Having recently obtained from Natal 

 Cramer's venustalis (of which testiila. Wo., and divulsalis, Z., appear to be merely 

 synonyms), I find it to belong certainly to the genus Titanic. Hence Titanio 

 (^Noctuomorpha) venustal is , Ld., a very different species of the same genus from 

 Armenia, must receive a fresh name, and I propose for it that of echincea. — E. 

 Meyeiok, Ramsbury, Hungerford : January 13</t, 1891. 



Capfiire.i of Trifurcula pallidella and Anyhia Langiella. — Ou September 2nd, 

 1888, 1 captured a specimen of Trifurcula pallidella at Glanville's Wootton ; there 

 is plenty of Genista tinotoria in this parish. Of Anyhia Langiella I met with a 

 specimen at Glanville's Wootton on July loth, 1890, and on October 20th I took 

 another at Boscastle in Cornwall. — C. W. Dale, Grlanville's Wootton, Sherborne, 

 Dorsetshire : January 2th, 1891. 



Note on Sphaleroptera ictericana. — -On July 15th, 1890, I took five or sis 

 empty cases of Taleporia pseudo-bombycella on some old fencing at Aldeburgh, 

 Suffolk, and was much surprised about a fortnight later to see a specimen of 8. 

 ictericana emerge from one of them. The larva must have wriggled itself into the 

 case, and so saved itself the labour of constructing a cocoon. — C. T. Cruttvs'Ell, 

 Dinton, Norfolk : January, 1891. 



Note on Tortrix costana, var. latiorana. — On July 14th, 1890, I took two speci- 

 mens of this variety on the salt marshes near Aldeburgh, Suffolk, flying in company 

 with T. vihurnana, which was abundant. — Id. 



"A query as to hihernation." — In reply to Dr. Chapman (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxvii, 

 p. 22), I can at any rate vouch for one hibernating Lepidopteron in which the 

 pairing takes place in the autumn, viz., Dasypolia Templi. When eggs of this species 

 are wanted, the ? are almost always collected in October and November, and kept 

 alive singly in chip boxes until spring, when they freely deposit their eggs. I have 

 kept the $ alive through the winter myself, and sent numbers away to friends in the 

 autumn, and except in cases where the moths have died before spring through un- 

 suitable treatment during the winter, they have always, so far as my friends have 

 told me, deposited fertile eggs in the spring. This fact is so well and has been so 

 long known, indeed (see the late William Buckler's description of the larva, Ent- 

 Mo. Mag., iv, p. 251), that Dr. Cliapman must have overlooked it when writing his 

 note. I had a very strong impression too that the same thing occurred with several 

 of the species mentioned by Dr. Chapman, but this is simply an inference from the 

 fact that most of the spring species taken (I am alluding to the Noctuce more particu- 

 larly) appear to be ? , and however early they may be taken, the eggs obtained are 

 always counted on as fertile. But as Dr. Chapman " knows fertilization takes place 

 in the spring," I cannot gainsay it, as no doubt he has seen the various species paired 

 after hibernation. But if not in the case of every species he mentions, I would 

 point out that the fact of a few ^ being found in spring does not by any means 

 prove his theory. The ^ of D. templi hibernate under stones along with the $ , 

 and are found with them well into the winter ; and I have no doubt that in a mild 

 winter some of them survive and fly again in spring. I believe, indeed, but am not 



