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time or I should probably have turned up more of eaeh, since these marshes are 

 undoubtedlj a fine liabitat of Iseiwoptera generally. Beceles is now ten miles 

 inland. — Claude Morlet, Everton House, Ipswich : March 2.1th, 1897. 



Astata atiqma, Panz., tf'c, near Ryde. — I was able to give but very little time 

 to entomology last summer, and what few days I could spare were mostly rainy. 

 Towards the end of June, howevei-, I got a few Aculeates, the best being a $ Astata 

 stigma on the sandhills at St. Helen's. Pompilus ritftpes was plentiful at the same 

 place, iioth sexes of Colletes picistignia occurred at Spring Vale on ^cAJ^/ea. At 

 St. Helen's I got C.fodiens and C. marginata ; of the latter only two males. An- 

 drena pilipes and Caelioxgs vectis on Ruhus at Sandown. — Gr. E. Feisby, Leonie 

 Villas, Park Koad, Ryde, Isle of Wight : March I8th, 1897. 



Tephrosia bistortata {c rep use til aria), and T. crepiixcularia (biitndularia). — It will 

 be remembered that last year Mr. Barrett, in writing of specimens of a second brood 

 of one of the Tephrosice captured in a wood near Reading in July, referred them to 

 T. crepuscularia (biandularia) because T. bistortata did not occur in this particular 

 wood. The specimens to which I refer were exhibited on September 10th last at a 

 Meeting of the South London Entomological Society. Being doubtful as to the 

 absence of T. bistortata {crepuscularia) from this wood, I went on the 22nd inst. 

 to look for it, and took two, one in a larch plantation, the other from a beech 

 trunk near the same plantation. I again visited the wood on the 24tli inst. and 

 captured two more ; this time both specimens were taken from larch trunks. The 

 assumption that T. bistortata was absent from this wood is, therefore, erroneous, 

 and the insects taken last July should in all probability be referred, not to a second 

 generation of T. crepuscularia (biundularia). but to a second generation of T. bis- 

 tortata (crepuscularia). — J. Claeke, Reading : March ^Ith, 1897. 



[Received before the publication of the editorial note on p. 79 ante. — Eds.]. 



lUuieiu. 



Monograph of the Bombtcine Moths of Ameeica Noeth of Mexico. 

 Part I, Family I, NotodontidcB : by Alpheus S. Packaed. 4to, pp. 287, with 49 

 plates and 10 maps. Washington : National Academy of Sciences. 1895. 



There is every reason to believe that this important memoir, although dated 

 1895, was not distributed until 1896 was well advanced. This is unfortunate, because 

 it did not enable writers of papers dealing with similar subjects to embody the 

 author's views, but some of the conclusions were foreshadowed in separate papers. 

 It is necessary to deal with the work from two standpoints. Firstly, Dr. Packard 

 tells us that for some years he has been collecting materials for a general work on 

 N. A. Bombycine Moths, of which this is the first instalment. It is exhaustive in 

 the highest degree, the descriptions are minute, the local information of the fullest 

 (so far as obtainable), and the plates are mostly excellent. The figures of the perfect 

 insects are executed from photographs (a plan we think not entirely free from 

 objection) ; those of the transformations are coloured ; the anatomical details are 

 very full ; and as a somewhat novel feature the disti-ibution of the species of the 

 larger genera is indicated on maps. But the systematic portion is preceded by a 



