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Cat. Br. Tin. and Pter., 10 (1849), (? : Plutella macuJ ipennis , Stn., Syst. Cat. Br. 

 Till, and Pter., 10 (1849), ? ; Plutella hrassicella. Fitch, Rp. Nox. Ins. N. Y., I, 

 170-5 (1856) ; Plutella limbipennella, Clem., Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil., XII, 6 (1860), 

 S • Plutella mollipedella, Clem., Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil., XII, 6 (1860), ? ; Plutella 

 *xylosteUa, Stgr. and Wk. Cat., 281, No. 1626 (1871) : Plutella cruciferarum, Stgr. 

 and Wk. Cat., 425, No. 1626 (1871) ; Stn., Ent. Mo. Mag., XIX, 251 (1883) ; Tinea 

 galeatella, Mab., Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, 1882-83, VI, Zool. Ins. Lp., 34, PL III, 10 

 (1888). 



As the Diamond-back Moth, alias Pliotella cruciferarum, Z , is 

 probably the only Tineid known by name to the general public, having 

 been so freely mentioned in newspapers and the reports of economic 

 entomologists throughout the world, it is very sad to have to lead the 

 non-entomological student of insect scourges and pests into the regions 

 of synonymy, and to ask him to unleami. the name cruciferarum, 7i., 

 and to substitute for it maculipennis, Crt., an older and forgotten 



name. 



" Till old age and experience hand in hand 

 Lead him to death, and make him understand. 

 After a search so painful and so long. 

 That all his life he has been in the wrong." — Anon. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 

 June, 1897. 



MICRORRHAGUS PYGMMUS AND OTHER COLEOPTERA IN THE 

 BLEAN WOODS, KENT. • 



BY J. J. WALKER, R.N., F.L.S. 



On June 2lst I went to Whitstable for a day's collecting in the 

 extensive tract of woodland between that town and Canterbury, known 

 as the Blean Woods. These woods are chiefly composed of oak and 

 birch, with a good sprinkling of beech, hazel, sallow, and aspen, the 

 undergrowth in parts consisting largely of heather {Callmia vidt/aris), 

 and it looks a very promising locality for all orders of insects. In a 

 recent clearing, Goccinella distincta, Fald. {lahilis, Muls.), occurred in 

 fair numbers, chiefly on young shoots of oak and birch in the vicinity 

 of nests of Formica rw/a, which were exceedingly numerous throughout 

 the woods. This fine ladybird had been taken here many years ago 

 by Mr. G. C. Champion {cf Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. I, vol. iv, p. 187), 



