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large number of typical Colias eduaa, 4(^ C ednsa var. helice and 

 34 C. hijah' ; conti'ary to the experiences of your other contributors, and 

 counting the var. helice as a female ednsa, we captured more females 

 than males. — Herbert Massey, Fairfield, Fog Lane, Didsbury. 

 December 7th, 1892. 



BoMBYX CALLUN^ ABERRATION. — This season I bred a most interest- 

 ing ab. of Bomhyx callunw, in A\diich the right hind wing has two teeth, 

 and tlio left hind wing one tooth, almost similar in shape to the 

 dentations of Lasiocampn quercifolia. Is this a harking back, or a 

 step forward ? — F. B. Newnham, Church Btretton, 8aloii. December 

 bth, 1S02. 



The relative Fading of Tint fkom Exposure. — The difference 

 in intensity of colour between the fore and hind wings of VeniJia 

 macvhifd, is, I also think, undoubtedly caused by exposure. I have 

 often noticed it in this species. Another moth that shows this some- 

 what strikingly is lodis vernaria. In this species, the fore wings, and 

 the part of the hind wings exposed while at rest, are frequently found 

 in captured specimens, to be of a dirty white colour, without a trace of 

 green ; while that portion of the hind wings that is concealed by 

 the front ones, usually retains a very fair degree of the intensity of 

 the original green tint. — E. M. Priueaux, Ashtead, Surrey. 



(Current notes. 



We are pleased to record the formation of the " Nottingham 

 Entomological Society," and wish it every success. Mr. A. Pike has 

 been elected President, and Mr. W. A. B. Ferris, St. Matthew's Yicarage, 

 Nottingham, Hon. Sec. 



A most interesting paper on Heterocera pupa3 was read bv Dr. 

 Chapman at the last meeting of the Entomological Society of London. 

 He stated that the ordhiary Jfacr(»-})upa has the fifth and sixth 

 abdominal segments moveable (" free "), and the larva of true Macro 

 has the hooks of the ventral prolegs developed only along their inner 

 margin. These two points taken together form a definition (inclusive 

 and exclusive) of Macro-heterocera. Another form (Micro), and probably 

 a much rarer form of pupa^, has the 7th abdominal segment moveable 

 in the ^ , but not in the $ . This form uicludes Neptinila, EInchista, 

 Tinea, Adelids, Tortrices, and of grou})s hitherto called Macro, — Zi/girna, 

 Limacodeit, Cossus, Zeuzcra, Hepiahis, Semi, Pnyche ; it also includes 

 Pterophorus (but not Ahicita). Pvrales and a few groups of Tineina, 

 have Macro pu^J^. The Micro (" incomplete ") pupte, nearly always 

 have some trace of maxillary palpi, and even highly developed, as in 

 Sesia, Liinacodes ; in groups in wliicli tliey are absent in the imago the 

 ilfacro-pupa never has maxillary palpi of the same type. Tlu> " glazed 

 eye " is a prothoracic, not a cephalic appendage. To turn our (.'o.ssm.s 

 ligniperda into a Micro appears ratlier strange to us, l)ut tlicre is 

 no doul)t that it l^elongs to tliis less liiglily developed section of our 

 moths. 



The publishers of the Eni. Mo. Maij., of wliifh the late Mr. H. T. 

 Stainton was so long an editor, propose l)ringing out a large photogTaph 

 of that gentleman, and rc'(piest intending purcliasers to intimate tlieir 



