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Pachythelia villosella in April. — I had an imago of Pachythelia 

 villim'lla emerge on April 14th from a pupa, the larva of which was 

 collected in May, 1899. — (Mrs.) M. E. Cowl, Aberceri, Spencer Park, 

 Wandsworth Common. April 15tli, 1901. 



Macroglossa stellataruiM in March. — This afternoon I saw in 

 my garden a fine specimen of Macroj/losfia stcllatartim flying at Arahis. — 

 (Eev.) C. R. N. Burrows, Mucking, Stanford-le-Hope. April 18th, 

 1901. 



CURRENT NOTES. 



The scientific works belonging to the library of the late Mr. P. 

 Crowley were sold at Stevens' sale room on April 15th. The larger 

 number of the more valuable books were ornithological, and nearly all 

 lots brought very good prices. Some of the more conspicuous ento- 

 mological works were the following : — Moore's Lcpidoptera Imlica, 4 

 vols., £7 7s.; Rhopalocera Exotica, 2 vols.. Smith and Kirby, £5 10s.; 

 Wilson's Larvae, £1 15s.; Rhopalocera Exotica, A. G. Butler, 1 vol., 

 £3 ; Felder's Lepidoptera, 3 vols, in 1, £3 3s.; Romanoff's Meittoires, 



7 vols., £13; Eaton's Epheweridae, 29s.; Leech's Butterjiies of China, 

 &c., 3 vols., £9 ; E.rotische Tan/alter, Staudinger and Langhan, 2 vols., 

 £1 12s. 6d. ; Bioloi/ia ('entrali-Awericana, £90 ; Donovan's British 

 Insects, 16 vols, in 8, £1 12s. 6d.; Trimen's South African Butterjiies, 



8 vols., £1 12s. 6d.; Marshall and Niceville's Butierfiies of India, 3 

 vols., £3 5s.; Transactions Entoinolo;/ical Societi/ to 1899, 46 vols., 

 £38 ; Lubbock's Collcmbola, £1 ; Buckton's Aphides, 4 vols., £2 2s.; 

 Stephens' Entonioloipj, 11 vols, in 6, £3 10s.; Westwood's Introduc- 

 tion, 2 vols., 16s.; Aid to Identification of Insects, 2 vols., Waterhouse, 

 £4 10s. ; Buckler's Larvae, 8 vols., £6 ; Cameron's Phi/tophai/ous 

 Hyinenoptcra, 4 vols., £2 10s.; Lang's Butterjiies, 2 vols., £2 15s.; Iris, 

 10 vols., £5 ; Scudder's Butterflies of Eastern United States, &c., 3 

 vols., £4 10s. ; Hewitson's Exotic Butterflies, £15 15s. ; Distant'a 

 Butterflies of Malaij Peninsula, £3. Private buyers seemed to be 

 absent or silent — Quaritch, Wheldon, Sotheran, Wesley, Janson, and a 

 few other well-known firms securing nearly everything. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held 

 March 20th, 1901, Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited specimens of an almost 

 black form of Cuspidia menyanthidis from Skipwith Common, near 

 Selby, and stated that the same form was also common on Strensall 

 Common, near York. For comparison he also showed specimens from 

 the moors near Huddersfield. The chief interest in the exhibit con- 

 sisted in the fact that in both the districts where the melanic C. 

 nienyant/iidis occurred, melanism was not a common feature ; whereas 

 in the Huddersfield district, where only the pale form of C. menyanthi- 

 dis Avas taken, melanism was a conspicuous feature in many species, 

 even in, and close to, the grounds where only pale C. menyanthidis 

 could be found. 



In the Horae Societatis Entomoloyicae Rossicae, vol. xxxv., March, 

 1901, Andre de Seinenov contributes a short paper on the species of 

 Anechura and Eorjicula which occur in Russia. It is written in 

 Russian, with descriptions in Latin. Anechura orientalis (Krauss), 

 sp.n., is described, being the sub-species of that name of de Bormans 

 in his recent great work ; a second novelty of the same genus is 

 Anechura zubovshii, from the Western Himalayas. In Eorficula, F. 



