NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. IIS 



average collector. From the amount of letterpress in Part I., and at 

 the rate of a part per month, some 300 parts will be wanted, and 25 

 years will probably be occupied in cornpletion. Much more ietter- 

 l^ress must be given per number, if the author is ever to reach that 

 part of his work which is sure to be most valuable. 



The Irish Naturalist is a new " monthly journal," devoted to 

 "general Irish natural history," which we welcome with pleasure. The 

 tirst number contains articles by Prof. Johnson, D.Sc, Prof. Cole, 

 F.G.S., Rev. W. F. Johnson, M.A., A. G. More, F.L.S., etc., and as it 

 has been accepted as the organ of several of the Philosophical Societies 

 and Field Clubs in Ireland a good circulation should be quickly 

 assured. 



Mr. J. Alston Moffatt contributes a very interesting paper on wing 

 structure, entitled "A microscopical examination of an unexpanded 

 wing of Caliosamia promethea," to the Report of the Ent. Soc. of Ontario 

 for 1891, pp. 32-35. It is in reality an extended account of his paper, 

 Ent. Rec. vol. ii., pp. 274-275, and he refers to Dr. Buckell's and Mr. 

 Fenn's papers oti this subject. The Report has a large number of facts 

 of the highest interest and value on economic entomology. 



For the students of the Coccidcs, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, Curator of 

 the Museum, Kingston, Jamaica, has prepared mounted specimens, and 

 will send sets (10 specimens in each) on application. They should be 

 of the utmost use to agriculturists. 



It would be interesting to the members of the " Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Entomological and Natural History Society," after having 

 heard Mr. Webster's paper {ante p. 95), to read a paper by the Rev. 

 Thomas W. Fyles, on "The Entomology of Shakespeare," given in the 

 Annual Report of the Fruit Growers' Association and Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, 1890, pp. 78-87. 



Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, of Leominster, publishes a list of Hereford- 

 shire Lepidoptera, w^hich will, we believe, be embodied in the Trans- 

 actions oj the Woolhope Club, and, thanks to Dr. Wood, it appears to 

 be more complete in Micro-lepidoptera than any local list yet published. 

 Mr. Hutchinson notes that 510 species of Macro-lepidoptera out of 811, 

 and 669 species of Micro-lepidoptera out of 1262 occur in the county. 

 It is the particular home cf Xylomiges conspicillaris and Eiipitliecia 

 consignata, and such species as Cuspidia alni ■os\di Fachnobia leucvgrapha 

 occur here frequently, the latter in abundance. 



lOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Caccecia excessana, Wlk., fkp.ding on Laurel. — Within the last 

 three years, records have appeared of the larvge of several species ot 

 British Lepidoptera feeding on common laurel {Cerasus lauro-cerasus). 

 The last case was reported by Mr, Bignell (Entoni., xxiv., 18), who 

 found a colony of the larvee of Fhalera bucephala feeding on a laurel 

 hedge at Portsmouth. In this district, I have observed colonies of the 

 larvae of C. excessana, feeding, last season and the present one, on 

 laurel fences. This native species is practically omnivorous, and has, 

 for several years, attacked apples in different parts of the country, but, 



