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scientifically, because of their incompleteness and absence of detail. 

 Mr. Sydney Webb records {Ent., xxi., pp. 133-5) " several gynandro- 

 morphous specimens " of P. aeijoji in his collection, presumably, from 

 the context, all taken near Dover, in 1887, a most unusual occurrence 

 and worthy of more extended notice, liarrett, too, observes {Brit. 

 Lep., [., p. 70) that " Webb has gynandromorphous specimens m his 

 collection, some with the right side J , others the left, and, of these, 

 some have dashes of bright blue in the brown of the $ side," etc. 

 Now these extracts show that here, in one collection alone, is an 

 excellent lot of material that merely wants carefully recording. Again 

 we find {FJut. Record, viii., p 272), that, at " Stevens' sale-rooms," on 

 October 27th, 1896, several gynandromorphous examples of P. aegon 

 were sold in the " Briggs' collection " at 7s., 6s., 6s., 8s., 8s., and 22s. 

 per pair. With the exception of one of these, none had been previously 

 recorded by Mr. Briggs, who, by reference to the sale catalogue, finds 

 that these lots (106-111) were bought respectively by Messrs. Mason, 

 Maddison, Booth, Sheldon, Maddison, Booth. Of these. Mason's and 

 Maddison's have since been resold. The four from the latter's collection 

 were bought by Mr. L. Newman, and he reports : " two of the aeiion 

 have the right side 3 , the left J , one is very mixed, and the fourth is 

 not a hermaphrodite at all." My entomological friends are exceed- 

 ingly good in giving me information if I write them individually, but 

 time is wanting to do this. It is simply impossible. Will they not be 

 equally kind in sending me, at once, details of the gynandromorphic 

 " blues " in their collections, just noting which side is 3 , which $ , 

 or in more complicated cases, the (J and 5 parts, carefully discriminat- 

 ing what are simply blue-tinted $ s, together with all available data — 

 the original collection they came from, if nothing further be known ? 

 These details are important. No doubt some day the specimens 

 (especially if properly authenticated) will be worth a great deal of 

 money, as information regarding them becomes more and more 

 necessary. It is quite impossible to me to write to the owners of all 

 our best collections, but I should be thankful for detailed information 

 of the examples, in the collection of anyone, and if they will only just 

 send me the needed facts, I will make the best use I can of the material 

 collected. — J. W. Tutt. 



®^URRENT NOTES. 



Mr. Champion adds Calodera riifencens, Kraatz, to the British list on 

 the strength of examples taken at Sandown, Isle of Wight, June 1898, 

 and at Colchester, in 1906. 



Mr. E. R. Bankes describes a form of Scoparia anibigtialis from 

 the New Forest as ab. crossi ; especially characterised by the snowy- 

 whiteness of the ground colour of the forewings, as seen especially in 

 the subbasal and subterminal areas, which throw the dark median area 

 into strong relief, and is exactly parallel with Scoparia mercurella ab. 

 portlandica, and S. duhitalis ab. piirbccli-eii.sis. 



The secretary of the City of London Entomological Society writes 

 to say that the error concerning the misuse of the name Tephrona 

 biundida) ia, in the Entoni. lUrord, p. 176, is not his. He complains, 

 however, of the synonymy, which was unfortunately tangled for us 

 more than a century ago, and from which Mr. Prout released us in his 



