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picion in an occupation which we hope will restore him to perfect 

 health. He wishes to limit the subscription to 30 shares at ^5 each. 



The Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham will read an address at the Annual 

 Meeting of the Entomological Society on Wednesday^ January 21st, 

 at 7 p.m. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett has described (in the Eni. Mo. Mag.) a new 

 Anacampsis, allied to aJithyllidella, but distinguishable " by its narrower 

 fore-wings and more acute apices." This apnears to be the species I 

 took in fair numbers in July, 1889, near Freshwater, and could not, at 

 the time, name. Mr. Barrett names it sparsiciliella. Mr. A. F. Griffith, 

 M.A., adds Herrich-Schaffer's Symmoca signalella to the British list. 

 Seven specimens were captured near the London Docks in 1889 ^"^ 

 1890. They are supposed to have been introduced with cargoes of 

 Spanish cork. Mr. Nelsm M. Richardson also adds the Ti7iea siibti- 

 lella of Fuchs to the British list. Eight specimens were captured 

 during August at Portland, by Mr. and Mrs. Richardson. 



Lord Walsingham, in the Ejit. Mo. Mag., writes a most interesting 

 note about certain Eupoccilice ; (i). E. affinitana, the larvae feeding in 

 stems of Aster tripolium ; (2). E. /leydeniana and E. anthemidana. 

 "The species feeding on Anihej?iis stexn?, to be VLndonhtQdXy heydeniana, 

 H. S." = anthemidana, Wilk. The species in our collection as anthemi- 

 dafia, feeding in the flowers of Erigeron acre, he names eiigerana, 

 describing both sexes of the imago, and the " small ivory-white larva, 

 with a brownish head, feeding in the flowers of Erigeron acre." This 

 would appear to be the pale triple-brooded species locally common in 

 several parts of Kent. 



Mr. N. M. Richardson, also in the Ent. Mo. Mag. describes the 

 larva of LithocoUetis anderidce. 



I^ARIATION. 



Vari.viion of Ypsipetes elut.vta. — On the moors, this species is 

 later than elsewhere in its appearance. The bilberry-feeding forms 

 produce nearly every variety of colour, even occasionally black. The 

 moorland sallow-feeders generally produce reddish-buff specimens, and 

 the same (sallow-feeders), in woods where no bilberry is procurable, are 

 as a rule the black variety infiiscata. — A. E. Hall, Sheffield. June 

 26th, 1890. 



I breed examples of this insect, similar to some exhibited by Mr. 

 A. E. Hall in the baskets of the Exchange Club, from bilberry and 

 heath-fed larvae. Sallow-feeders, even on the moors, are larger, greener 

 and not so variable. Our biLerry-feeding form remains the same, 

 whether fed on sallow, heath or bilberry, and the sallow-feeder will 

 not change colour or size if fed on bilberry or heath. Here, both 

 forms can be got in Pittodrie Wood ; but on Ben-na-chie, only the 

 small bilberry form. — Wm. Reid, Pitcaple, N.B. July c^th, 1890. 



The Y. elutata from Carmarthenshire were all taken amongst sallow, 

 and varied very little in size, though very much in colour. The dark 

 and the light forms were found together everywhere, with every inter- 

 mediate variety. There were of course many other plants in the 



