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there is nothing in English literature to guide him. To stay our best 

 entomologists advancing because beginners find it hard to learn the 

 names of insects, or because collectors cannot remember a necessary 

 change of name is absurd. It suggests to one's mind that Edison must 

 wait because schoolboys have a difficulty with Ohms, Volts and 

 Ampbres. Perhaps Mr. Tutt's book, Tke British NoctucE and their 

 Varieties, will put us on a better footing, at any rate in one group, and 

 we may hope in time to obtain a nomenclature somewhat uniform with 

 that in use in every other part of the world, but not by sticking to a 

 list as obsolete as our text-books. — C Cammerer. July, 1891. 



LarVjE in a common cocoon. — Last June I found a large brood of 

 larvae of Eriogaster lanestris, which I fed on plum in my garden. I 

 had three cocoons with two larvae in each. Two I broke, and found 

 the larvae had died without pupating, the other is still in my breeding- 

 cage. Up to the present not a single specimen has come out, all 

 appear to be lying over. — W. Foddy, Wolverton Road, Stony Stratford. 



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lURRENT NOTES. 



According to the daily papers, parts of the New Forest are advertised 

 to be sold for building purposes. Mr. C. A. Briggs makes an appeal 

 in the E.M.M., to the Entomological Society of London and others 

 to take the matter up. 



The Daily Telegraph also publishes several letters relative to 

 attempts being made to close the Norfolk Broads. 



It is assumed that all subscribers to the British Noctuce and their 

 Varieties have now had their copies of Vol. I. The copies in future 

 will be 7s., the price at which the volume is published to non-sub- 

 scribers. 



Part III. of the British Pterophorina will be ready next month, and 

 can then be obtained from Mr. Robson, Hartlepool (Price 6d.). 



As will be seen from the report of the meeting of the Ent. Soc. 

 of London for July ist, Dr. Chapman has at last succeeded in 

 obtaining larvte of the common Micropteryx calthella. This is interest- 

 ing, after the many years it has succeeded in frustrating all attempts to 

 find or obtain the larva. 



Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has been successful in rearing hybrids between 

 ZygcBna lonicerce and Z. trifolii. Mr. Fletcher last year successfully 

 crossed Z. lonicerce and Z. filipendulce. 



PoLiA CHI var. OLiVACEA. — Referring to Mr. J. E. Robson's note 

 {Record, vol. ii., p. 84), the type and the var. both occur here. I take 

 them at rest on grey stone walls, tree trunks, and palings, the var. 

 forming about 25 per cent, of the specimens taken. I have also one or 

 two intermediate forms. — T. Maddison, South Bailey, Durham. 

 JiiJie 30///, 1 89 1. 



Arctia lubricipeda var. — I have bred an A. lubricipeda with the 

 posterior wings slightly flushed with pink instead of yellow ; nothing 



