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It is interesting to learn from Mr. Webb tliat tlie original s)3eciinens were 

 captured as early as April. My inaccurate assertion {ante p. 121) that they were 

 taken " early in May " was based on a comparison of the statements by Mr. Douglas 

 [Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., N. S., i, 67 (1850)], whose description oi littorella as n. sp. 

 was published two years after its first discovery, and Mr. Stainton [Ins. Brit. 

 Lep. Tin., 128 (1854)], that the insect was taken by Mr. Stevens " in May," with 

 Mr. Stevens' own i-emark {in lift., 7/10/86) that the " end of April, or early in May, 

 is the time." 



In the absence of any evidence to support it, it seems to me most probable that 

 Stainton's inclusion, in Man. ii, 341, of Birkenhead as a locality for littorella is 

 untrustworthy, and that it was based on an error of identification on the part of 

 the correspondent who furnished him with the list of Lepidoptera reputed to occur 

 in that neighbourhood. — Id. : June 20th, 1901. 



Hemerobitis concinniis, var. qiiadrifasciatii^. — Referring to Mr. Kenneth J. 

 Morton's interesting paper in the current number of the Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 163, Mr. 

 Morton has evidently overlooked a " List of the Neuroptera and Trichoptera of 

 Yorkshire " I publislied in the " Naturalist" of April, 1897, where this form only 

 is i-ecorded as occurring at Sledmere. In that locality it is abundant, but I have 

 never seen the typical form there ; and the " variety " is so different in appearance 

 that ever since I first took it I have had a strong suspicion that it must be a distinct 

 species. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, near Huddersfield : July 13<A, 1901. 



[Neither at home nor on the continent have I ever found the two " forms " 

 together. On the continent qtiadrifasciatus is by far the more abundant according 

 to my experience, and in the high alps it is almost black. Dr. Eeuter and Mr. 

 Morton draw a comparison with H. nernosiis, but to my mind confusion is far more 

 likely with H. Mortoni ; cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 1899, p. 80.— R. McLachlan]. 



A neiv Russian Entomological Journal.— "Yheve has been commenced at Jaros- 

 lawl in Russia a Journal of which the French title is " Revue Russe d'Entomologie." 

 Each part will be published every two months, and will contain two to three sheets 

 (or 16 to 20 sheets annually). It is devoted to general Entomology, and articles 

 may be published in Russian, Latin, French, German, or English. There are six 

 editors, some of whom are well known in connection with the Russian Entomological 

 Society at St. Petersburg. The price is 8 siiillings (English), and communications 

 should be addressed to M. N. R. Kokonyew, Dvorianskaia 24, Jaroslawl, Russia. 

 Sold also by Friedlander & Son, and F. Dames, in Berlin. With the exception of 

 the " Horse Societatis EntomologicEE Rossicse," no other publication exclusively de- 

 voted to Entomology exists in the Russian Empire, so there should be room for 

 this. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : June 17th, 1901.— Mr. H. Wil- 

 lOUGHBY Ellis, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed a specimen of the rare Dipteron, Brachypalpus 

 himaculatus, Mcq., taken at West Malvern in Whit week, 1901. Mr. Ellis the 



