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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



way towards our south coast from the continent, the apparent direction 

 of the wind at the time favouring this idea. Y. malinellus, which 

 feeds upon apple, and of which the typical imago has white forewings, 

 has been generally, though not universally, regarded by continental 

 authorities as distinct from padellus, in which the primaries are 

 usually either grey, or else white, more or less clouded with grey. It 

 has never, except temporarily long ago, been admitted to a place in 

 the British List, our specimens bred from or taken amongst apple 

 (upon which the larvas are often far too abundant, and, alas ! do not 

 confine their attentions to the leaves, but frequently, I notice, gnaw 

 and devour portions of the unripe fruit as well) having been referred, 

 on Stainton's authority, to padellus. But among these there occur 

 certain individuals with the ground-colour of the forewings unclouded 

 white, and these seem quite inseparable from malinellus [cf. Snellen, 

 Vlind. v. Ned., Micr., p. 510 (1882)] . Stainton at first treated our apple- 

 feeding form as a good species, under the name malivorella [Syst. Cat., 

 p. 15 (1849)] ; then he sunk it, somewhat doubtfully, as a form of 

 padellus in Ins. Brit., Lep. Tin., p. 60 (1854), and obviously, from the 

 mention of "apple" as one of the foodplants, included it under 

 padellus in Man., ii., p. 308 (1859), but he finally appears, from a 

 remark made in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii., p. 101 (1885), to have considered 

 our apple-pest as not identical with the continental malinellus. Some 

 interesting notes "On the Hyponomeuta of the Apple," from the pen 

 of the late Mr. C. G. Barrett, will be found in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii., 

 100-1. Two questions, however, still remain unanswered, viz., (1) Is 

 Y. malinellus, Z., specifically distinct from padellus, L. ? (2) If so, does 

 malinellus, Z., occur in Britain, or is our apple-feeder merely padellus, 

 L. ? I hope to breed a lengthy series of moths from my apple-trees 

 this summer, but their emergence will clearly be so abnormally late, 

 owing to the prolonged spell of unseasonable weather, that I must 

 report upon them separately later on, instead of any longer with- 

 holding the note that Mr. Mathew placed in my hands. — Eustace R. 

 Bankes, Norden, Corfe Castle. July 10th, 1907. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Coleoptera in Sherwood Forest. — A few days spent in Sherwood 

 Forest after coleoptera, from June 21st to 25th, with Professor Beare 

 and Mr. Kidson Taylor, who was staying there, proved not un- 

 productive, in spite of the wet and cold weather. Beating birch 

 produced Saperda sealaris and Cryptocephalus coryli in some numbers, 

 Magdalinus carbonarius a few, Brachytarsus varius, Rhynchytes inter- 

 punctatus, Deporaus megacephalus, Malthinus frontalis, several specimens 

 of Elater lythropterus, and an Anobium, which turned out to be 

 paniceum., this must have been introduced in pheasants' food. Under 

 bark the best thing was a short series of Synchita juglandis, not 

 recorded from Sherwood before. Other species obtained in this way 

 were Hypophloeus castaneus, not uncommon, Quedius asanthopus, 

 Agathidium varians, Bolitochara obliqua, Scydmaenus exilis, ('urticaria 

 serrata, and Philonthus splendidulus. Ptinus subpilosus, newto Sherwood, 

 Oligota apicata, Micropeplus margaritae, Orthoperus atomarius, etc., were 

 beaten out of faggots. Enicmus rugosus occurred in a powdery fungus, 

 and Ptenidium gresneri was found with Lasius fuligihosus. — Horace 

 Donisthorpe. 



