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of course, it is an interesting capture, as Douglas (FJnt. Ma. Mai/., 

 vol. XXI., 1885, p. 256) records it as having been taken in abundance 

 by Mr. Weaver in Nortli Wales flying in the daylight, lie particularly 

 repeats that, unlike B. sulstitialis, it flies by daylight. 



A species of the beautiful longicorn, Saperda scaleris, L., is recorded, 

 in the Ent. Mo. Maij. for November, as having been captured by Mr. N. 

 E. Frainpton in Bretby Park, Derbyshire. Canon Fow^ler remarks 

 that he once took a specimen in Robins Wood, and the late Mr. Blatch 

 recorded the species from 8hervvood Forest in 1889, and that these are 

 the only Midland records of the species. Mr. J. Kidson Taylor, however, 

 recorded it {Ent. Mo. Maij., vol. vi., 18(59, p. 00) from the latter locality 

 oft" oak, and states that he bred it from pupa? taken at the same time 

 under oak bark. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of Loudon held on 

 November 5th, Dr. Chapman exhibited specimens of Enbia stijgue and 

 Plebeius anjus {acijoii) from Bejar in West Central Spain, for which the 

 varietal name of bejarends in each case was proposed. The E. stygne 

 are very richly coloured, with the red bands well developed and the 

 ocellated spots numerous and large, and form an exceptionally tine race, 

 especially as the specimens are nearly half as large again as the 

 ordinary Swiss form (up to 55mm.). The I', anjiis are, similarly, 

 much larger than any other race, reaching an expanse of oGium., 

 strongly and brightly marked, and suggesting doubts ijs to how far they 

 are not an approach to P. zep/iynia or bjcidas, and whether these are 

 truly distinct from P. argas {aegon of the British lists). Curiously an 

 equally large, but not quite so brightly marked, Erebia was amongst 

 Mrs. Nicholl's exhibits, taken at Bicos de Europa. The opinion 

 seemed to be that this was also a form of iV. stygne. 



The most remarkable feature of Mrs. Nicholi's Algerian exhibit, 

 on the same evening, was a line series of Teraeola>sdaira var. iiouna, and of 

 Ave species of Anthooharids. It was remarked that the Anthucharis belia 

 and A. belemia seemed to represent very small forms. As a matter of 

 fact all the six species were of almost exactly the same size, and, even 

 including the Teracolan, of an exceedingly close general appearance. 

 No remarks were hazarded as to the probable cause and meaning of 

 this curious identity, although Mrs. Nicholl, m conversation after- 

 wards, stated that she especially selected small examples of A. belia in 

 making her captures, in hopes of getting A. tugis. 



We have received the tirst fasciculus from Dr. Otto Schmiedek- 

 necht of his Ujniscida Ichiwuiuonologica, which title sounds as though 

 it were written in Latin, as it certainly should have been ; as a matter 

 of fact, it is, unfortunately, in German. The contents of this, which is 

 the tirst of the quarterly parts to be obtained of the author at three 

 marks apiece, at Blankenburg, in Thiiringen, consists of a synopsis of 

 subfamilies of the Ichneumonidfe, of tribes of the Ichneumonin;i?, of 

 the genera of the Jujjjn)d, Ichneuinunhii, HUtrodi-oinini, tleroiiurckini, 

 Gyiodontini (trib. nov.), and of the Aloniyini, which last is quite cor- 

 rectly here placed and not excluded therefrom, as by M. I'Abbe 

 Berthonmien m 189G. These tribes should, according to the German 

 Zoological Society, bear the sutiix " -ides," a termination used by 

 lepidopterists for superfaunlies, " idi " being uniformly applied 

 by them as a tribal ending. The last 50 pages are occupied by 

 the beginning of a tabular conspectus of the 500 palfrarctic 

 species of the genus Ichiumnon, L., representing of course thai of 



