112 THE kntomoloCtIst's record. 



these organs being distinctly different in form in the two species. The 

 variety is parallel to the car. fuscata of H. manj'maria, but is not quite 

 so dark. — W. Mansbkidge, 21, Kosenau Crescent, Battersea, S.W. 



Dark Variety of Phigalia pilosaria. — I took on March 12th 

 a beautifiil melanic variety of PJn'galia pilosaria in the woods here. It 

 is a very dark green (almost black), with black nervures. I have 

 never seen anything like it before. — R. B. Eobertson, Sketty Park, 

 Swansea. 



©URRENT NOTES. 



We do not wish here to enter into any discussi(jn re nomenclature, 

 but woi;ld point out that in Mr. Dale's notes of last month, British 

 Nainralisf, v(il. iii., pp. 50-53, there are two or three facts that want 

 setting straight. — 1. Mr. Dale rightly speaks out against the descrip- 

 tions of Hufnagel as being poor compared with what are expected now- 

 a-days, but he loses sight of the fact that within ten years of 

 publication, Hufnagel's friend. Von Eottemburg, extended these short 

 diagnoses, and set Hufnagel's nomenclature (by the excellence of his 

 descriptions) on a sounder basis than that of any other author of the 

 time. There can be no doubt of Hiafnagel's synonymy read with Von 

 Rottemburg's work thereon. (2) Mr. Dale's description of Fabricius' 

 cytherea is altogether unintelligible, and, of course, as Avritten, will 

 strike any entomologist as ridiculous. Whatever do the following 

 phrases mean : " margins fresco," " cinerco frescogue," " fleurfB mar- 

 gins fresco," " snl)tutus anticee " ? It is, of course, Mr. Dale's aim to 

 make these old authors look ridiculous. To do it 1 ly quoting barbarities 

 like these, which do not exist in their works, is utterly reprehensible, 

 and out of keeping with scientific work. (3) Mr. Dale's quotation from 

 Staudinger with regard to sinon is altogether out of date. Staudinger 

 corrected it himself 21 years ago, and it has been corrected by wiseacres, 

 who have not looked at Staudinger's Corrigenda, a dozen times since. 

 (4) On p. 53, what does " Affinis nimeiun Hyales " mean ? (5) Con- 

 cerning the non-occurrence of Colias hijaJe in Scandinavia, perhaps Mr. 

 Dale would do well to look iiji Sven Lamjja's excellent list in The 

 Entomologist Tidskrift, 1885. Truly Mr. Dale's paper is fearfully and 

 wonderfully written, and proves conclusively the old adage, " a little 

 knowledge is a dangerous thing." 



A most interesting paper of Coccidfe and the ants witli which they 

 are associated, together with the descrijition (and fig.) of a new sjiecies 

 Bipersia snhterranea, obtained on roots of Nardns stricta in nests of 

 Formica flava, on a raised shingle beach at Ingoldisthorpe, near King's 

 Lynn, Norfolk, on August 20th, 1892, is communicated ])y Mr. R. 

 NeAvstead to the current number of the Enf. Mo. Mag. 



Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher records the capture of Grapholitlia grmmiferana 

 in Hampshire. On May 27th and June 2nd, 1890, several males and a 

 few females were taken among plants belonging to the Nat. Order 

 LegnminosecB occurring in the locality. It is " like G. co'cana, but with 

 more ample wings, Avith the geminated markings on the costa Avell 

 developed, from one of which a lustrous leaden line passes to anal angle, 

 bounding the ocelloid patch found there on its inner side, and meeting 

 beneath it a second line (broken in the middle) which borders the outer 



