1921, 1-55 



LepidopterouB life was marked. In South-west Yorkshire, Phu,alia pedaria, 

 Hybernia leucophearia, H. rupicapraria, and H. marginarm were all out this 

 year in January. On April 23rd Fidonia atomaria was out on the moors near 

 Huddersfield, and on April SOth Acronycta menyanthidis (even the females) 

 was well out on th« same moors, when also Fhoxopteryx myrUllana was on the 

 win-. I do not rememher ever seeing these two species so early on our 

 bleak moorlands. Hadena glauca appeared a few days later. The mild 

 weather has continued longer tins year than last; indeed, there has been 

 sc^^ely a break in it up to the present time.-GEO. T. Porbitt, Dalton, 

 Huddersfield: June 7th, W2]. 



[The followino- butterflies were first observed on the wing by myself 

 during the present ,,^,on-Cyaniris aryiolus, Oxford, March ?M\.,Euchl6e 

 cnrdamines d, Tubnev, Berks, April 13th; Brenfhis euphrosyne Wheatley, 

 Oxon fully out May 12th ; Plebeius aeyon, Brockenhurst, June / th ; Limemtis 

 Sibylla, Matlev, New Forest, June 8th; ,S^ri/mo«;jmm, near Oxford, June 15th; 

 Mdanargia galaiea (1) and Aryynnis adippe, not rare, Tubney, June i7th ; 

 Ephinephele tithonus, Tubney, June 28th.— J. J. W.]. 



Does Scenopinusfenestralis Be G. [DipUra) hibernate? -M.J \on^ series of 

 this distinct species from various Suffolk localities was captured between 

 1st July and 10th September: in 1914 the first one appeared on 3rd July. 

 Verralf gives it a perfect span from June f.th to only August Uth, and draws 

 especial attention to the frequency with which the apices of the females' wings 

 were " broken oftV This " Carpet Fly " seems of sufliciently local distribution 

 in Britain to have escaped particular attention, yet it ie rather strange that its 

 ea.liest recorded date should not be before June, if it really hibernate. This 

 year I was delighted to tiud the female on my study window here so early as 

 3rd of Mav, with the wino-tips mutilated. If indeed it hibernate, which has 

 not hitherto been suggested, on account doubtless of its midsummer appearance, 

 the circumstance would account in several ways for the alar mutilation : e.g., 

 gnawing hj Psocids just where the tips overlap the abdomen throughout the 

 winter. This, too, would account for the immunity of the male, which perhaps 

 does not hibernate.— Claude Morley : May SQth, 1921. 



Some neivs of the Russian entomologists.-Mtev an interval of several years 

 authentic news regarding the fate of certain Russian entomologists has recently 

 reached this country. It appears that a great number of them died during 

 those years from different causes, mostly fi'om typhus and several from 

 starvation. The Russian Entomological Society has lost about 50 of its 

 Fellows, amongst them several very prominent men. The names of the better 

 known deceased Russian entomologists are as follows :— Dr. N. Adelung, 

 keeper of Orfhoptera in the Petrograd Zoological Museum (died 23.xia.)17) ; 

 Sera-ius Alferaki, a well-known Lepidopterist (died 27.vii.1918) ; V. Bianki, 

 ornithologist of the Petrograd Museum, who also did some good ^«rk m 

 entomology (died 10.1.1920)9 Prof. E. Vassiljev, economic entomologist (died 

 vii 1919) ; N. A. Zarudny, a distinguished traveller and explorer of Central 

 Asia and Persia (died 13.iii.l919) ; B. Karavajev, myrmecologist<died m 1919) ; 

 N Kurdiumov, who has been the leading figure in Russian agricultura ento- 

 moloovrshot himself dead, 7.ix.l7, on the front, being driven into despair 



