CURRENT NOTES. 



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thYee Larentia viridaria (pertinataria) at sugar, I suppose a second 

 brood, they are very small and light in colour. — Ibid. 



Anticlea sinuata at ivEAmNG. — On July 14th I took two 

 specimens of Anticlea siniuita here, the first I have seen, but I believe 

 two or three have been taken previously in this district. — Ibid. 



MaCROGLOSSA STELLATARUM FEEDING AT FLOWERS OF FUCHSIA. 



During a visit, last November, to friends at Uckfield, in Sussex, I was 

 greatly interested in watching, on the morning of the 6th, a specimen 

 of MacroiiloKm stellataniiii extracting nectar from the blossoms on a 

 fuchsia-hedge in their grounds. As the manner in which thismoth secures 

 its food from fuchsia flowers was un known to me, there may be a few others 

 who also are ignorant of it, so a brief account is given. The flowers of 

 fuchsia being pendulous it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the 

 moth to insert its proboscis into the nectary in the same way that it does 

 when feeding at those of geranium, verbena, etc., so it very cleverly 

 thrusts it in through the small spaces formed by the tapering of the 

 petals at their bases. November 6tli appears to be an unusiuilly late date 

 not only for stdlataniv) to be seen on the wing, but for fuchsias to be 

 in full bloom in the open air. — P>. A. Bower, F.E.S., Lee. 



Plusia moneta at Wandswoi; m. — It may be worth recording that 

 a fine P. moneta flew into the study window here to the lights, in mid- 

 July last. It was evidently from the park, where monkshood is grown 

 fairly abundantly.— (Mrs.) M. E. Cowl, Aberceri, Spencer Park, 

 Wandsworth Common. Fehrnarn 22nf^ 1901. 



List of Warwickshire insects. — As I am engaged with friends in 

 preparing a list of the insects of Warwickshire, it would be a great 

 assistance if any entomologists who have worked in the county would 

 let me have a list of their captures, which would be gratefully acknow- 

 ledged.— Colbran J. Wainwright, F.E.S., 2, Handsworth Wood, 

 Birmingham. February 14?/(, 1901. 



dr U RRE N T iTo^T E S . 



The Fifth International Congress of Zoology will be heldatBerhn, 

 opening on the morning of Monday, August 12th, and closing Friday 

 August 16th. An excursion to Hamburg will take place on the latter 

 date, and one to Heligoland on the 18th. To those who remember 

 the success of the Fourth Congress, held at Cambridge, in 1897, there 

 is scarcely need to enter into detail. We, however, append the ofiicial 



programme : 



Sunday, Axiqust ll?/(— 8 p.m. : Reception. Monday, August l'2f;i— 10 a.m. : 

 General Meeting'in the Lecture Hall of the I. Chemical Institute, 1, Hessische 

 Str., opening of the Congress. Election of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. 

 Arrangement of the Sections. Scientific Lectures. 12.30-2 p.m. : Luncheon. 

 2-4 p.m. : Meetings of the Sections. From 4 p.m. : Visits to the following IMuseums 

 and Institutes which will be open to the Members and Associates of the Congress 

 each day : the Zoological Museum, the Zoological Institute, the Geologic-Paleonto- 

 logical Museum, the Mineralogic-Petrographical Museum, the Museum for Mining 

 and Metallurgy, the Zoological Museum of the Agricultural High School, the two 

 Anatomical Institutes, the Pathological Museum, the Botanical Museum, the 

 Ethnographical Museum, the Observatory, the old and new Botanical Gardens, the 

 Aquarium, the Zoological Gardens, the Urania, and the Treptow Observatory. 

 TueMlai/, Auyugt Vith—d a.m.: General Meeting in the Lecture Hall of the I. 

 Chemical Institute, Scientific Lectures. 12.30-2 p.m. : Luncheon. 2-4 p.m. 

 Meetings of the Sections. From 4 o'clock p.m.: Visits to the above named 

 Collections and Institutes. At night : lleception of the Members of the Congress 

 by the Berlin Municipality at the City Hall, Konig Strasse, C. Wednesday, Auyti.^t 



