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an article on " Geographical Variation," by Dr. Skinner, in the 

 Entomological Neivs for June, 1890. The part dealing with Vanessa 

 antiopa is very interesting to British collectors. 



Anotlier proof that there are very few rarities, if we only know the 

 complete how, when, and where of the species, has been proved by 

 Messrs. A. Robinson, B.A., F.E.S., and Bird, F.E.S., taking a large 

 number of Sesia sphegiforniis . principally by " assembling" in Sussex. 



It will be with the greatest regret that our readers will hear of the 

 death of Dr. R. C. Jordan of Edgbaston. I have been greatly indebted 

 to him at many times for information, which was always most freely 

 given. The Pterophorina were his favourite group^ and many of the 

 extracts in the Monograph of this group, that I am now writing in the 

 Young Naturalist, are from his pen. 



Eupithecia consignata is recorded from Harleston l)y the Rev. C. T. 

 (Jruttwell, M.A. ; Eupacilia vianniana and E. geyeriana from the Isle 

 of Purbeck, by Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, M.A. 



Lithocolletis anderidcs has been bred from larvte feeding in birch, 

 obtained at Bloxworth, by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, M.A. 



Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., G. Dennis, C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., and 

 E. A. Atmore, F.E.S., have bred Eipithecia extettsaria rather freely this 

 summer. 



Mr. B. A. Bower, F.E.S., acting on the suggestion of Mr. W. Warren, 

 F.E.S., found the larvae of Phoxopteryx upiipana last September feed- 

 ing on birch. 



A list of the British Orthoptera is published in the Ent. Mo. Mag. by 

 Mr. Eland Shaw, F.E.S. 



The collection of the late Dr. Signoret has not been kept in France, 

 but has gone to Vienna. 



Dr. P. B. Mason records that the females of Coremia niunitata often 

 have the ground colour of a creamy-white in Iceland. 



I captured a specimen of Sesia allantiforniis crawling over privet 

 blossom in a, wood in North Kent. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell has returned after a long stay in Colorado. 

 As will be seen in our adverti'sement columns, Mr. Cockerell desires a 

 Natural History engagement if possible. 



^^ARIATION. 



Black Variety of the larva of A. caia. — On Saturday, May 

 loth, I was searching for the larva of this species near here, when I 

 took a very fine variety feeding on stinging nettle {Urtica dioica). In 

 this variety the usual red hair on the first three segments and along the 

 sides is replaced by black, thus rendering the larva completely black — 

 m fact, were it not for the black legs, it might be mistaken for villica. 

 Thinking that this variation might probably be only external, and have 

 no bearing on the future imago, I made sure of it by preserving the 

 larva. — James A. Simes, Lower Clapton. June igth, 1890. 



Lyc^na medon var. salmacis. — This variety is found only on the 

 sea-coast in the neighbourhood of Castle Eden, where the foodj^lant 

 of the larvte {Helianthemum vulgare) abounds, and although this plant 

 also grows plentifully at some places inland, I have never found v. 



