38 THE entomologist's record. 



tliat the colour is rather bright. They are represented feeding on 

 hazel. The French calls this species " L' ecureuil " (the squirrel) and 

 " Bombyx du Hetre." 



Descriptions, etc. — The Linntean description of the species (Syst. 

 Nahirce, Ed. xii., p. 816) is as follows : — " Phalena Bombyx fagi, No. 30. 

 P. Bombyx elingiiis, alis reversis riifo cinereis ; fasciis duabus linearibus 

 luteis fiexuosis " (Wings reversed, of a reddish ash colour, with two 

 linear bent yellowish fasciae). This is our ordinary form of the species. 

 There is, however, a good deal of colour variation in this form. Some 

 specimens I have seen are pale grey and have the outer margin much 

 whiter than others, while some may be said to be almost inter- 

 mediate between the type and the black variety. Some specimens 

 too, show a tendency to a dark band across the front wings. 

 Variation : — Var. jS. Markings as in type, but wings of a deep brownish 

 black. I have been unable to find any description of this very distinct 

 form. Staudinger in his Catalog enumerates no varieties. It was, I 

 believe, discovered by the Rev. Bernard Smith at Marlow, but I do not 

 know whether he gave it a varietal name. A strange aberration — a 

 male with female antennae — was exhibited by Mr. Adkin on behalf of 

 Mrs. Hutchinson at the Sth. London Ent. Society's Meeting on 

 December 16th, 1886 (Ent., xx., 22). Affinities : — Linnaeus seems to 

 have been rather in doubt as to the position of fagi, for in the Fauna 

 Suecicce (1761) he says : (No. 1113) " Antenna? visee sunt noctua? in 

 speciminibus lectis, forte feminis, tamen ob habitum eam inter Bom- 

 byces retuli done ceiiiora innotescant de insecto, nisi fugitivis oculis a 

 me non viso " (The antenna? seem those of a Noctu^ in the specimens 

 taken, especially in the females ; nevertheless, on account of its general 

 conformation I have set it down among the Bombyces, until more shall 

 certainly be known about the insect, as I have only seen and examined 

 it casually). The genus Stauropus was created by E. F. Germar in 1811 

 or 1812. His description of the genus (Systematis Glossatorum Pro- 

 dromiis. Sistens Bombyaim species secundum oris partium, diversitatem in 

 nova genera distribritas) is as follows : — '' Palpi duo, reflexi, compressi 

 hirsuti, biarticulati, articulo ultimo minuto. Lingua nulla. Antenna? 

 filiformes (maris pectinatse, apice nudee)" and S. fagi was, of course, the 

 type of the genus. Germar arranged ijhe folloAving genera thus : — 

 Notodonta (Ochs.), Pterostoma, Cerura (Schrank, Latr.), Stauropus, En- 

 dromis (Ochs.), Lasiocampa (Schrank). Staudinger in his Catalog j^laces 

 the genus immediately following iJarjj?/ra (0.) at the head of the Noto- 

 dontidce thus: — Harpyra, 0. {Cerura), Stauropus, Germar ( Cei-wra, Schrank 

 Harpyra, 0.) In the Entomologist Synonymic List, Stcluropms is placed 

 with Dicranura, Latr. (Cerura, Schrank) in a separate family from the 

 Notodontidte — the Dicranuridce of Boisduval. The British Museum 

 collection of the Notodontidce enumerates ten siJecies, of which eight 

 are represented. Fagi is the only European member of the genus, all 

 the rest coming from the East — India, Ceylon, Java, China and Japan. 

 — A. F. Bayne, Cranbrook Park, Wood Green, N. 



The Larva of Coccy'x nemorivaga, with some Notes relating 

 TO the Pupal Structure. — In September last, I found in Sutherland- 

 shire, the leaves of the Arbutus uva-ursi inhabited by a small lepidoi^- 

 terous mining larva, usually in one of the leaves of the rosette 

 terminating the shorter shoots. The leaf was very obvious, being 

 divided about the middle by a slightly oblique transverse line into a 



