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the rest, two males and fourteen females, came out in the present- year. 



To the Entomological News Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker is contributing 

 an article on Everes comyntaa and E. am)/nttila. It will be remembered 

 that in Vol. X. of Britit<h Leiiidoptera, the late J. W. Tutt accepted both 

 the above forms as races of the Pahearctic Everes ari/iades, with a 

 certain amount of reservation. To this decision he was mainly led by 

 the work of Mr. Bethune-Baker and Dr. Chapman. Setting out with 

 this view our author has now come to an exactly opposite conclusion, 

 viz., that E. conii/ntas is a distinct species. The possession of a series 

 of some 600 specimens, the examination of several hundred more, 

 many preparations of the genitalia, the hearty co-operation and opinion 

 of Dr. Chapman, and the evidence of many of the principal American 

 entomologists, some of whom have bred the species brood after brood, 

 have led Mr. Bethune-Baker to this result. 



To those interested in the study of Mimicry an article in the March 

 number of the Eut. New.^i by J. R. Haskin, " The Danaine Species of 

 N. America and their Mimics," will be very interesting. He attempts 

 to apply the Batesian Theory to Danais strifiosa, D. berenice, and D. 

 ple.vippiis, and their mimics Liiiwmtis ohnolfta, E. floridensis, and Aiiosia 

 ple.npiHis, adding his own field observations on these insects. 



In the current volume of Entomolof/isr/ii' Mitteilmujen, the official 

 organ of the "Deutsches Entomologisches Museum," a series of articles 

 are appearing by Fritz Wagner on the lepidopterous fauna of the Hi 

 district of Russian Central Asia. Portions of this area have already 

 been investigated by Alpheraky and by Frederichsen. Several figures 

 of the more striking forms have appeared, together with a plate of 20 

 forms of Pnrnassius actiiix all taken on the same ground. 



In the Scottish Natitralist for February, Mr. A, E. J. Carter records 

 two Diptera of the genus TctcJujdro'nia as new to the British List. 

 LacJn/drornia annidipes occurred at Aberlady in June, 190i, and is a 

 widely distributed European species of quite distinctive characters. 

 T. major was taken at Loch Tay in July, 1904, and is the largest 

 species of the genus. It comes nearest to T. ecalceata. 



A very complete and valuable story and life-history of that 

 beautiful and curiously rare Noctua, ( Kvytr»ipia orbiculosa, Esp., appears 

 in the "Annals of The National Hungarian Museum" for 1912 — from 

 the pen of Dr. Antal Schmidt. The species was described by Esper from 

 a single male example, taken at Szeged, probably in 1797 or 1798, and 

 now in the Hungarian National Collection. The second example was 

 taken at Varosliget in 1847. Since that date (K orbiculosa has been 

 found in various small localities near Buda Pest, but never until quite 

 recently in any numbers. In consequence of the rarity and value of 

 the specimens, extraordinary efforts Avere made to keep the localities 

 secret, and one even hears of collectors going on the ground armed 

 with a revolver, and using this weapon upon intruders ! The imago 

 appears in September and October. The males fly with a swift 

 undulating flight in small clearings in woods in the morning sun in 

 search of the female, which is usually to be found at rest. The ova are 

 dropped in the sand, loose, in the neighbourhood of the foodplant 

 Iris jiiimila, and pass the winter in that stage. The larvte emerge in 

 April, they feed, chiefly by night, on the leaves and rhizome of Iris 

 pitmila. The article is illustrated by an excellent coloured plate 



