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emergence, being wedged in one exit, presumably, too small to admit 

 of its passage. — Ed.] 



Larvae in a common cocoon. — Thinking one of my Eriogaster 

 lanestris cocoons unusually large, I opened it and found two pupae 

 squeezed together. One had suffered more than the other, but both 

 were pushed out of shape. The cocoon itself was perfectly formed, 

 and there was no partition between the pupae. They had been sleeved 

 out in a large bag with only a dozen neighbours. — G. M. A. Hewett, 

 Winchester. September, 1890. [This is a most unusual structure, I 

 have never seen anything like it before. — Ed.] 



^URRENT NOTES. 



A paper, by Herr Fritz Riihl, on the differentiation of Melitcea 

 athalia, pari/ienie, and aurelia, is being published in the Societas 

 En tomologica (1890). 



Our Micro-lepidopterists should be interested in a paper, by Herr 

 C. Schmidt, on the " Larvse and Cases of the CoLEOPHORiDiE found in 

 Silesia," published in the Societas Entomologica (1889), pp. 169 and 

 184; (1890), pp. 3, 12, 19, 44. 



Mr. C. \V. Dale, F.E.S., who is writing a "History of the Sphinges" 

 in the Yoking Naturalist, has placed together the whole of our five- 

 spotted Burnets {melitoti, trifolii, and lonicercr) under the name of loti. 

 Some of his statements and conclusions are startling, and appear alto- 

 gether unsupported by facts. 



Besides the two specimens of Pliisia moneta already noted in the 

 Record (that in the " Current Notes " for last month being captured by 

 Mr. Holland), a third was taken at Dover by a school-boy, hovering 

 over a Delphinium blossom, and is now in Mr. Webb's collection, whilst 

 a fourth has been captured by Mr. R. A. Dallas Beeching nearTunbridge 

 Wells. 



Mr. N. M. Richardson, B.A., has recorded {Ent. Mo. Mag.) another 

 specimen of Epischnia bankesiella from Portland. Of the five specimens 

 which have been captured, Mrs. Richardson has taken three, and Mr. 

 Richardson two. Mr. Richardson also records the capture, in Dorset, 

 of specimens of Steganoptycha subsequana in a fir wood, and Mixodia 

 rufimitrana amongst silver-fir, in the terminal shoots of which the larvse 

 probably feed. 



Dr. J. H. Wood has found a new Tinagma, of which he describes 

 the life history in the Ent. Mo. Mag. (October). The larva first lives 

 in the twig, enters the leaf by passing up the stalk, and cuts out its 

 case from the leaf. There is a thickening for about two inches at the 

 end of the shoot, and the larvae are best collected before entering the 

 leaf, as they only enter it at night-time, and remain only long enough 

 to cut out their cases. The species is described and named betulcs by 

 Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., etc. 



Mr. E. Meyrick records {Ent. Mo. Mag.) Aplota palpella from 

 Ramsbury, Wilts, captured in August. 



It is with great regret that I have to record the death of two well- 

 known British entomologists, Mr. C. Hall, of Dover, and Mr. Owen 

 Wilson, of Caermarthen. 



