CURBENT NOTES. 77 



Dr. Knaggs, wlio was on the editorial staff of the Ent. Mo. Mag. at 

 its commencement, but wlio retired from entomological piii'suits some 

 25 years ago, has just come before the public again, and takes up the 

 cudgels on behalf of Clostera anachoreta. His note, in which he seeks 

 to restore the shaken position of this species as British, is rather smartly 

 handled by the Kev. J. Greene, and as he referred in his note to si^eci- 

 mens taken at Deal, Mr. Webb very reasonably enquires, whether the 

 species was not " laid down " in many outlying localities around that 

 part of the Kent coast, either by Dr. Knaggs himself, or others. Very 

 little doubt exists in the minds of lei^idopterists nowadays, that this 

 species was in some unexplained (as yet) manner, introduced with the 

 13oplars at Folkestone, on which they were found. Its enormous egg- 

 laying jDower makes it impossible that such a species as this should die 

 out if a regular native, and yet, this is what it has done ; as no district 

 in England is more regularly or closely worked than the Folkestone 

 home of this sj^ecies. 



It has been known ever since the discovery of the species in abun- 

 dance in Scotland, that Refima resiiielJa took two years to come to 

 maturity. Strange to say, a general impression has got about that it 

 only occurs once in two years, i.e., that the imagines do not appear 

 every year. At a recent meeting of the South London Ent. Soc, Mr. 

 McArthur referred to this Betiaia, and we asked him whether there was 

 any foundation for this latter supposition. He stated that it only occurred 

 once in two years according to his experience. It was then suggested 

 that it must have been a recent im2:)ortation to have such a regular and 

 strange mode of appearance. Mr. Adkin, in a contemporary, asks for 

 information from Continental lepidojDterists on this point. Perhaps, 

 some of our Scotch friends can tell us whether R. resinana is so abso- 

 lutely biennial as we are learning to consider it. 



We should be interested to learn what, in the days gone by, the 

 City of London Entom. Soc. did to earn the dislike of the Editor of one 

 of our contemporaries. The reason for his dislike of ourselves is well- 

 known and obvious, but we are, as yet, a little in the dark as to the 

 cause of the City of London's iniquity. The following geograjihical 

 item from The Entomologist is interesting, "fuliginosa (Isle of Manfarnis) " 

 this means, we presume, "fuliginosa (Isle of Man forms)," or where is 

 the Isle of Manfarnis ? 



A photograph of the highly esteemed President of the City of 

 London Ent. Society (Mr. J. A. Clark), is given with the current No. 

 of The British Naturalist. 



We suppose that all British lepidopterists thought they knew the 

 correct names of the species Colias hyale and edusa, and since the lepi- 

 dopterists of all other parts of the world agreed with us, we might have 

 considered ourselves pretty safe. However, Mr. C. W. Dale has just 

 attempted to show that our edusa is really hyale, and that hyale has no 

 name at all. He then suggests that we might call hyale — edusa, a boule- 

 versement that may find various names among synonymists in general. 

 We should advise Mr. Dale to be governed by his last suggestion and 

 leave the names alone, as the ancient history which he quotes is quite 

 argualile, and open to differences of opinion. If it were quite modern 

 the case would be different. 



