276 THE entomologist's record. 



are very large on the 8th abdominal and prothoracic, wanting on the two 

 other thoracic, segments. The body tubercles are small black warts, each 

 bearing a short, colourless, warty hair. The prothorax has two large 

 ones (on each side) in subdorsal positions, one being higher up than 

 the other. Below is another, but I can only see it on one side of the 

 larva. In front of spiracle is a large tubercle with a longish hair. The 

 meso- and raetathorax have two subdorsal tubercles (on each side of 

 dorsal line) on the same subsegment, one being close to the dorsal line, 

 the other on the subdorsal. They have two very small tubercles, set 

 one in front of the other, in the lower part of the supraspiracular line. 

 The meso- and metathorax have four subdivisions, the abdominal seg- 

 ments five. The first tubercle (i) is (on abdominals) near the dorsal line on 

 thefirst subdivision; the second (ii) is on fourth subdivision, and on sub- 

 dorsal line ; the third (iii) is on the second subdivision on the lower part 

 of supraspiracular line. Spiracle is almost in a line with it below. All 

 tubercles are larger on 8th abdominal. There is a short 9th abdominal 

 with the tubercles arranged as in the others, but no spiracle. All 

 segments have tubercles on or near lateral border. Seven or eight 

 tubercles at the base of anal forks (dorsal aspect) rather irregularly 

 placed, and only two of good size; the forks are short, and terminate in 

 three warty protuberances, each bearing a thickish colourless hair. 

 Body very finely pitted. Pitting much coarser on anal segment.— H. 

 Powell, 7, Rue Mireille, Hyeres. September itJi, 1905. 



®^URRENT NOTES. 



We have been asked by several of our subscribers to admit again 

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If our German confreres are all behind in their knoAvledge of litera- 

 ture published outside their own country, they are well in advance in 

 the publication of their own, for we are already in possession of the 

 interesting Entomoloijhches Jahrbuch for 1906 (edited by Dr. Krancher), 

 with its usual combination of articles, calendars, and other details of 

 interest to all sorts and conditions of entomologists. 



The printer has in hand, at last, parts i and ii of the new Natural 

 History of the British lUitterfJies, which has been unavoidably delayed 

 again, owing to the ill-health of the author. The first part will con- 

 tain a first-class plate of the Skipper eggs by Mr. A. Tonge. We 

 should be exceedingly glad for detailed notes of localities (with 

 counties), dates of capture, habitats, habits (egg-laying, larval and 

 imaginal), and aberrations of any of the Skippers, Coppers, Blues, 

 and Hairstreaks from every possible source and without delay. 



