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Briggs, F.E.S., Rock House, Lynniouth, R.S.O., North Devon. 



August 28?//, 1907. [Record for Yes Tor, Dartmoor (Benbow, Ent., 

 1878, p. 21).— C.R.N.B.] 



CURRENT NOTES. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye, who intended sailing to Trinidad on August 21st 

 on an entomological tour, has, unfortunately, had to postpone his 

 visit owing to the prevalence of yellow fever there. 



Having completed our lifehistories in detail of all the British 

 " hairstreaks " in A Natural History of British Butterflies, vol. ii., 

 parts 1-12, we shall be exceedingly glad for any careful observations 

 and notes on the "variation," "egglaying," "larval habits," "imaginal 

 habits," "habitats," "exact dates of appearance," and "localities" 

 from entomologists at home and abroad, relating to any species of our 

 British "blue" butterflies. We particularly want accounts of the 

 gynandromorphs known to be in various collections. 



It is with the greatest regret that we learn of the death, on 

 July 11th, of our valued correspondent, Mr. J. Harrison, of Barnsley, 

 at the age of 73. His careful and reliable observations were always of 

 the greatest value to all those who sought his aid, and we ourselves 

 have often been greatly indebted to him both for information and 

 specimens of local forms of Yorkshire lepidoptera. He was one 

 of the five original members of the Barnsley Naturalists' Society, 

 established in 1867, and now one of the most successful of the Societies 

 affiliated to the Yorkshire Union. 



Mr. E. R. Bankes (Ent. Mo. Mai/.) shows cause for considering 

 Epiblema costipunctana, Haw., to be an aberrative form of the well- 

 known E. trigeminana, Stphs. 



British lepidopterists are fortunate in having two accounts of the 

 lifehistory of Chrysophanus var. rutilus at disposal in less than twelve 

 months. The first account, published about a year since, gave a 

 detailed structural account of the insect in all its stages, by Dr. 

 Chapman and Mr. Sich, and appeared last year in A Natural History of 

 British Butterflies, i., pp. 417-461, the second, less complete in structural 

 detail, is now being published by Mr. Frohawk. The latter, however, 

 was extremely fortunate in breeding a splendid gynandromorph, figured 

 in The Entomologist, p. 178. Right side $ , left side 2 . 



In the Irish Naturalist (August), the Rev. W. F. Johnson has 

 some interesting "Notes on Irish Hymenoptera." 



Our entomologists will find a most interesting paper in Science, 

 n.s. vol. xxiv., pp. 621-628, 665-666, and 695-699, by Professor 

 Vernon L. Kellogg, entitled " Is there determinate Variation ? A 

 note on assortative mating variation in Parthenogenetic Insects." 

 The paper should not only be interesting to all students of variation, 

 but particularly so to coleopterists, the species Diabrotica soror being 

 particularly dealt with. 



Mr. F. Lowe has done good service to Economic Entomology by 

 his publication of a pamphlet entitled 77<,> Parasitical Insect Scheme 

 for Treatment of Insects Infesting Vegetation. The good work done by 

 economic entomologists has for long been much discounted by the 

 patent humbug and absurd performances of quacks, and Mr. Lowe in 

 his paper exposes some of the methods followed out, particularly in 



