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other forms. It used to occur there very sparingly, but was most 

 difficult to find and extremely local, being only taken in one portion 

 of one belt of trees. — H. J. T.] 



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Dr. David Sharp has announced {Ent. Mo. Ma<j.) a species of 

 Quedins new to science. He has named it Q. hammeanus, in honour of 

 his friend, Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Oxford University Museum. It 

 is closely allied to C^. nwlochinns, and is probably a coast insect, as it 

 has only been found sparingly at Deal, Strood, Lymington, and 

 Hayling Island. 



Dr. Norman H. Joy re-establishes {loc. cit.) Colon microps as a 

 British species, on the strength of a specimen sent to him by 

 Mr. Champion to examine. It was captured many years ago at 

 Cobham, Kent. 



The well-known collection of Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., of 

 Liverpool, has passed into the hands of Mr. L. W. Newman, of Bexley. 

 We understand that it will be broken up and sold in the autumn of 

 the present year. This is one of the best of the older well-known 

 collections, and contains a large number of varieties and forms, 

 especially of species occurring in the counties of the north of England, 

 the north Midlands, and the mountain and coast areas of North Wales. 

 Many of the varieties this collection contains have been figured by 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley in Illufitrations of Varieties of British Tjepidoptera, and 

 in the Naturalist's Journal. We gather that the series of varieties of 

 British Arctiids are all very fine, and many of the aberrations are 

 unique. If we remember rightly, the collection contains the magnifi- 

 cent Arctia caja with almost wholly white forewings, and several with 

 forewings uniformly brown, without any lighter markings. Perhaps 

 the most extraordinary item in this collection is the teratological 

 specimen of Anthrocera filipendidae, which has the forewings duplicated. 



We have just received particulars of the Annual Conversazione 

 of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, held on Febuary IGth, at the Hancock Museum, 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Though it was not specially an entomological 

 occasion, tbere were several exhibits that were of considerable interest 

 to entomologists. Perhaps Mr. Bagnall's exhibit was the most 

 important of these. It was largely composed of type specimens of 

 Thysanoptera, and as many of these will shortly have to be returned 

 to foreign and colonial museums, it is very unlikely that such a 

 collection of types of Thrips will ever be brought together again. 

 Among the British Thrips, Mr. Bagnall showed examples of his 

 gigantic form, Megathrips nohilis, Bagn., the pear Thrips, Kiithrips 

 pyri, Dan., and the rediscovered juniper Thrips, Thrips juniperina, L. 

 His types of foreign TJnjsanoptera included species from South America, 

 Australia, the Sandwich Islands, and other remote Pacific Islands, the 

 Malay Archipelago, India, Ceylon, and the Seychelle Islands, the 

 Mediterranean, North and South Africa, the Madeiras, and various 

 countries in Europe. Of the other exhibits, one of the most interesting 

 to entomologists was a set of sample drawers from a large reference 

 collection of British beetles, which is at present being prepared for 

 the museum with Mr. Bagnall's help. It is a combined collection 



