218 THE entomologist's record. 



coast of Scotland (Oban), gave a supply of larv* of Eapitheria cenosata 

 (the resulting imagines but slightly darker than those from the usual 

 inland food-plant, Silenc inrl'tta). 



29. — During the first fortnight of July the imagines of Aciilalia 

 ochrata are usually actively on the wing by about 8 p.m., and continue 

 on the move till dark, tlying about (htonis, quite close to the herbage; 

 after dark they may be found with a lantern whilst resting on the 

 plants. 



30. — The larv* of Aculalia iiiianiinata thrive on the withered leaves 

 as well as the fresh ones of convolvulus, and have such a great 

 protective resemblance to the withered stems of their food-plant that 

 it is difficult to find them amongst the dried <lrhris ; the pupal stage 

 is a very short one, the imagines emerging early in July. The eggs are 

 loosely scattered, and hatch within a week or ten days of being laid, 

 given suitable weather. 



(HORRENT NOTES. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held on 

 May 1st, 1901, Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited for Mr. H. \V. Vivian a 

 Noctuid said to be referable to Xylophcma lakritia, Hufn., a species 

 not hitherto recorded in the British Islands. It was taken in South 

 Wales by Mr. W. E. E. Allen. 



At the same meeting Sir George Hampson exhibited two females of 

 an apterous Lachneid from the Transvaal, with cocoon and ova 

 bred by Colonel J. M. Fawcett, 5th Lancers. The larva is very much 

 like that of the British Macrotln/laria nibi. The female does not 

 emerge from the cocoon, its antennae being aborted and all the joints 

 coalesced with a flabellate organ with slight striye indicating the joints; 

 the fore tibiae short with traces of tibial claws. The male is unknown, 

 and as Colonel Fawcett was on active service at the time of emergence, 

 he was unable to expose the female for the purpose of attracting the 

 male. 



At the same time Mr. H. Goss exhibited a gynandromorphous 

 specimen of Lijcaena bdlar^ius which he had taken at Reigate, in June, 

 1900. It had the characters of a male in the right wings, and the 

 characters of a female in the left wings, which were, however, not 

 entirely free from the blue scales of the male. No dissection had 

 been made of the genitalia, so it was impossible to say whether the 

 specimen was strictly hermaphrodite. 



We are very sorry to learn that Monsieur A. Constant died suddenly 

 on May Urith. Less known to English entomologists perhaps, than 

 some less accomplished workers, he had a most extensive ac«]uaintance 

 with European lepidoptera, and his work on the fauna of Iiurgundy 

 and the Riviera is well-known. His loss diminishes irreparably the 

 very small band who study the micro-lepidoptera of France. 



On June 7th, at the Roval Institute, Professor Meldola, F.R.S., 

 gave a lecture on -'Mimicry" before a large and distinguished 

 audience, many of whom were ladies. After referring briefly to the 

 causes of the dilTerent kinds of colours in insects, the learned lecturer 

 gave a general account of the phenomena of mimicry in insects in all 

 its branches. The lecture was profusely illustrated with many beau- 

 tiful lantern slides. We were pleased to see present the veteran Alfred 

 Russell Wallace, the originator of the theory of " warning colours." 



