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mouth, a species of Coleoptera new to Britain. The species formerly 

 supposed to be B. distinctiis was last year pointed out by Dr. Joy to be 

 a new species which he named B. sharpi. In the same number 

 Dr. Joy, after examination of the aedeagus of a large number of 

 specimens, has differentiated three species new to science from the 

 well-known Atheta iiielanocem, viz., A. tumlini, A. malleus and 

 A. nbti(saii;ii(la. 



Williana Greenwood Wright, of San Bernardino, California, the 

 author of that fine work Butter/iien of the West Coast, died last December, 

 at the age of 83. He gave help freely to the writers of the last 

 century, and he was the discoverer of many butterflies and moths, 

 several of which have been named in his honour. 



In the E)it. Eiiud., for December 21st, last, Fritz Hoffman of 

 Krieglach names the form of Arctia caja with the black submarginal 

 markings of the hindwing continuous, and including the fringe also 

 black, as ab. nv/rociliata. Has not this aberration been previously 

 named ? Can anj^one turn up the reference if it has ? 



In the Pomona Journal of Entomolofiy, the " only entomological 

 magazine published on the Pacific slope " of North America, Mr. 

 Wilhelm Schrader of Los Angeles, California, has published two 

 articles on the breeding of Junonia coenia under high and cool 

 temperatures, illustrating his remarks with several figures. In the 

 first article he summarises the results obtained through a series of 

 tv/enty-two successive generations produced within a period of two 

 years and seven months. These experiments were carried out at a 

 temperature of 90 degrees. In the second series of experiments 

 described, the larva3 and (or) pupje were subjected intermittently to 

 cool air, often as low as 60 degrees. Besides these regular lines of 

 experiments many side lines were carried on as opportunity occurred. 

 We understand that Mr. Schrader is constructing an elaborate and 

 specially planned building to continue his experimental work on a 

 larger scale. 



In the last-issued part of the Berliner Entomologische Zeitsclirift 

 Klemens Dziurzynski contributes a comprehensive article on Bnpalus 

 j>iniaria{us) and illustrates it with two coloured plates containingtwenty- 

 one figures of the various local and aberrational forms. He discusses 

 the distribution of the species in Europe and diagnoses shortly the 

 known local races and forms, and names others which have up to the 

 present time not been catalogued. The following is the list of the 

 named forms : — ab. 2 fuscantaria (deep brown and brownish black 

 markings); ab. 2 /'/(h'arm (dark red-brown or yellow) ; ab. $ unicolora 

 (uniform ochre-yellow) ; ab. ? stritjata (cf. fulvaria with a strong 

 transverse band) ; ab. 3 flarescens (with yellow ground, cf. the type); 

 ab. ? kolleri (with a very strongly marked transverse band, and like 

 the (J ) ; ab. dzinrynskii $ (like ab. flavescens with a strong transverse 

 band) ; ab. nana, (a small ab. flavescens 3); ab, ^ tristis (with very 

 dark lower-wings) ; ab. 3 nigricans (a very dark form with much 

 increase in the area of the black markings) ; ab. 3 nigricarius (a 

 uniformly black form) ; ab. g anomalaria (ground colour of all the 

 wings of a smutty light brown) ; ab. 3 albopuvcta (more or less 

 uniformly dark with white or yellow markings in the anal angle of the 

 forewings) ; ab. 3 alboinacula (more or less uniformly dark with 

 light yellowish longitudinal streaks) ; ab. 3 hirsc/ikei (with the usual 



