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CURRENT NOTES. 



We should be glad to hear from any one on our subscription list 

 who has not been supplied with, and requires, vol. viii of A Natural 

 History of the British Lepidoptera. It contains our account of the 

 British Butterflies — Urbicolids and Chrysophanids — together with 

 fourteen general chapters on "butterfly eggs" and "butterfly larvae," 

 and is illustrated by twenty full-page plates. 



If opportunity occurs we should be very grateful for any observa- 

 tions on the resting-habits or orientation of the imago when settling 

 of Strymon (Thecla) w-album, S. pi'uni, Bithysquercus,&n&Ruralis betulae, 

 especially such as compare with Dr. Chapman and Mr. Prout's 

 remarks (antra, vol. xviii., pp. 16S-9 and p. 214) on Callophrys ntbi. 



The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows would still be glad of material of 

 hidis lactearia in order to complete his life-history of the same. Also 

 as soon as available, eggs and larva? of Thalera fimbrialis. Eggs, 

 larvae or pupae, should be sent to The Vicarage, Mucking, Stanford-le- 

 Hope, Essex. 



Mr. C. H. Head, whose natural history lantern slides we noticed 

 recently, sends us some very well coloured lepidopterous larva?, each 

 done on an ivorine tablet, with convenience for pinning into a cabinet. 



It is well-known that from 1879-1883, Mr. G. C. Champion was 

 engaged in collecting in Central America — Guatemala and Panama. 

 A most interesting itinerary of his travels is published in the Ent. 

 News, xviii., pp. 33-44. 



The Baron de Crombrugghe de Picquendsele notes (Her. Men*. 

 Nam., vii.j p. 12) the capture of the interesting parthenogenetic 

 Selenobia lichenella in the Foret de Soignes. 



Mr. G. C. Champion notifies Apion {Exapion) kiesenwetteri, Desbr., 

 as a British species, taken at Sandown, Isle of Wight, and Chattenden 

 Woods in Kent, where it is not uncommon from July to September. 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham adds (h'nt. Mo. Mag.) Oscypoda metatarsalis, 

 Thorns., to the British list. The specimens were obtained from the 

 sittings from a mole's nest taken at Mathon, near West Malvern, in 

 Herefordshire. 



The same observer also writes a critical note on some species of 

 Laecobius, and names Laccobius oblongue, a species which he discovered 

 in Bottisham Fen, Cambridge. 



Dr. Sharp describes the grouse-fly as Ornithomyia lagopodis, differ- 

 entiating it from Ornithomyia avicularia, the common bird-fly. He 

 adds that Mrs. Duff Dunbar says that " this newly-named species may 

 be found freely in larders where freshly-killed grouse has been placed, 

 and that after a short time they leave the birds, and may be found on 

 the windows." All the British specimens yet seen have come from the 

 northern half of Scotland. 



SOCIETIES. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — February 

 18th, 1907. — Tortrices. — Mr. Forsyth exhibited 90 Tortricid species 

 captured near Lancaster, including Sciaphila penziaxa from Arnside, 

 Conc hylis alternana, Aphei.ia osseana, Grapholitha penkleriana, and 

 Dichrorampha saturnana from Lancaster. Tortrix pronubana. — 

 specimens bred from Sussex, Mr. R. Adkin. 



