32 THE entomologist'^ record. 



galeana (our northern vibumana). It is the viburnana mentioned by 

 Mr. Standish {Entom., vol. x., p. 74) as feeding on Teucriufn scorodonia 

 in the Warren at Folkestone, but certainly not the viburnana which 

 Mr. Prest found near York feeding on Salix repens {Entom., vol. x., 

 p. 49). I have only one specimen (?) of the so-called southern 

 viburnana with a transverse band and this is very different to the band 

 in the northern species, ending on the inner margin at nearly one-third 

 from the anal angle to the base, instead of almost at the anal angle. 

 For this well-marked southern species I propose the provisional name 

 oi teiuriana. Speaking to Mr. Sydney Webb about the species, I was 

 surprised to find he had already given the matter some attention, and 

 was quite satisfied that the species was not the same as that obtained 

 on the northern moors. I trust something very definite about the life 

 histories of these two species will be obtained this year so that a 

 satisfactory comparison may be made. 



The males of all this group have a very close superficial resemblance, 

 and this brings me to another probable error ot determination respecting 

 viburnana. Among my Continental Tortrices are some very fine 

 specimens of Tortrix steineriana var. do/irniana, H.S., and there is 

 scarcely any difference between the males of dohrniana and the 

 unicolorous males of tencriana (hitherto called viburnana) although the 

 females are very different. But dohrniana feeds on Finns sylvestris, 

 and it appears to me that Madame Lienig's viburnana (referred to in 

 Entom., X., p. 49, by Mr. Fitch as feeding on Finns sylvestris) are much 

 more probably var. dohrniana than the allied viburnana to which she 

 referred her pine-feeding species. — J. W. Tutt, Rayleigh Villa, 

 Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



^URRENT NOTES. 



A new CoLEOPTERON {Neuraphes plani/rons), taken in Sherwood 

 Forest, has been described and named {Eni. Mo. I\fag.) by Mr. W. G. 

 Blatch ; whilst another species (Cardiophorus equisefi, Herbst.) is added 

 to the British list by Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.E.S. 



Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., has written [Eftt. Mo. Mag.) a long 

 article differentiating Scoparia mercurella and S. cratcegella. I quite 

 agree with Mr. Bankes as to the distinctness of these species and the 

 comparative rarity (in the southern counties at least) of the latter 

 species. 



A new British bee {Frosopis gena/ii, Thorns.) has been added (Enf. 

 Mo. Mag.) to our lists by Mr. E. Saunders, F.L.S. 



Dr. Wood states that Swammerdamia griseo-capitella feeds not only 

 on birch but on Fyrus tormina/is and probably F. aucuparia. He also 

 describes {Ent. Mo. Mag.) the larva of S. liitarea, which he finds feed- 

 ing both on hawthorn and mountain-ash. 



Lieut.-Col. L. Blathwayt publishes an interesting note on a dimorphic 

 condition existing in the Dipteron Volucella bombylans. 



Two new species of Gelechiida, added to the British list by Mr. C. G. 

 Barrett, were exhibited by him at the South London Society's meeting 



