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of April loth: — (i). Bryotroplia obsciirella, Hein., of which I apparently 

 have specimens from Deal and Darlington. I do not believe Mr. J. B. 

 Hodgkinson's specimens to be specifically identical with the Deal 

 and Darlington specimens, although Mr. Barrett thinks they are. (2). 

 Doryphora elo?ige!ln, Hein., from Pembroke. This latter species is a 

 most obscure and unsatisfactory looking species, and appears to have no 

 very distinctive characters by which it might be recognized. 



Mr. A. F. Griffith exhibited Penthi7ia greviUana at the Entomological 

 Society's meeting on March 5th. Mr. C. G. Barrett, Ent. Afo. Mag., 

 vol. xxiii., p. 34, struck this name out of our lists, believing the supposed 

 species nothing more than a pale form of F. saucia/ia. Our ideas of 

 grei'illana appear to be getting rather mixed. 



Mr. N. F. Dobree states most decidedly that Agrotis as/nuorthii, 

 Doubl., is specifically identical with A. caiidelarutn, Stdgr. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett has exhibited at the London Entomological Society 

 a specimen of Botys vmtualis, Zell., taken by Mr. Gregson, near Bolton, 

 Lancashire. 



Mr. Gerrard has obtained imagines from larvfe of an Ephestia feeding 

 on rice. To me it appears that the species is E. kiihniella. 



Mr. Mansbridge has obtained imagines of a Tinea from larvce feeding 

 on fish guano brought from Norway. The imago appears to belong to 

 T. biselieila, but the specimens are large. 



I understand that an account will shortly be published by Dr. J. H. 

 Wood of a remarkable discovery made by himself and Dr. Chapman 

 of the oviposition of Micropteryx, and the structure involved, which 

 suggests an affinity of that anomalous genus with the sawflies. 



At the South London Society's meeting on April 24th, Mr. Adkin 

 read a most interesting paper, "• On the occasional abundance of certain 

 species of Lepidoptera ! " It is to be hoped that the Society will pub- 

 lish it. 



On Tuesday and Wednesday, April 22nd and 23rd, Mr. Howard 

 Vaughan's collection of British Macro-lepidoptera was sold. The 

 varieties fetched high prices, three C. edusa vars. being bought one after 

 the other for ;^io each, and a fourth for^i^^io los. ; the latter price was 

 also paid for a var. of A. aglaia (damaged) ; £,\ for a var. of A.paphia ; 

 jQg I OS. for two vars. of V. to ; the same for a var. of V. atalanta^ and 

 ;i<,io for a var. of cardui ; jQb 10s. was paid for a var. of C. dispar ? , 

 whilst the Lyccenidce produced from 2 to 4 guineas per lot ; a specimen 

 of C. caja was sold for 1 5 guineas ; a series of P. piniperda vars. pro- 

 duced ]£2 los. ; a series of T. gothica jQi 15s ; a series of E. lutulenta 

 and E. viminalis combined,;;^ 2 5s. ; a series o{ E.luiiiknta^ j[^2 ; whilst 

 a var. of C. nupta brought ^4. Many others were worthy of notice, 

 but the sale was remarkable for the fact that almost all the high prices 

 were for varieties ; nor is this to be wondered at, when one considers 

 that it is one of the scientific branches of our subject which is yet un- 

 touched, unknown, and not understood even by the most intelligent of 

 our workers. 



Our readers will be pleased to notice in our pages that Spi/onofa 

 pauperana has been captured liy Mr. C. Fenn, and Notodunta carnielita 

 by Mr. Holland: 



