202 THE entomologist's becokd. 



surely wishes to let us know how little French and Latin he has 

 learned, but if he will turn up a Latin dictionary, he will find that the 

 French " belle " is a modification of the Latin adjective " bellus, a, um," 

 and that bellarc/us is nothing like the nonsense-name he would have us 

 believe. There are, at any rate, two Assistant-Editors with University 

 degrees on the staff of the British Naturalist, and we might hope that 

 matter of this kind would be submitted to them before publication. 

 Dr. Buckell's strictures on Mr. Dale's work are hardly severe enough, 

 but it is amusing to read Dr. Buckell's criticism on pp. 139-142, and then 

 plunge at once into another series of remarks (pj). 142-146) of the same 

 lofty character, scientific inaccuracy, and classical impurity as the 

 previous effusions on the same subject. " Alis superiris rufis," "nigres- 

 cantibus deorsum," misquotes Mr. Dale, and then he cavils at the con- 

 struction of " bellargus." Whatever, too, is the " Poas figure of icarus " 

 referred to by Mr. Dale ? 



The British Nattiralist has at last a photograph of a " Naturalist of 

 the day," an excellent one of our esteemed friend, the President of the 

 South London Entomological Society, Mr. J. Jenner Weir. 



Mr. Kewstead, in the current number of the Ent. Mo. Mag., describes 

 a new genus {Pseudinglisia) of Coccids, and a new species (with plate) 

 which he names rodriguezia'. It was found on Eodriguezia secunda at 

 Eaton Hall, Chester. Mr. Newstead is in doubt about its position 

 " bearing as it does characters of the Lecaniince and the Coccince ; of the 

 former, the anal plates, and of the latter, the multiarculate rostrum and 

 anal lobes." 



Mr. C. G. Barrett records the capture of Bnjotropha figidella. Stand., 

 on waste ground or salt marshes near Aldeburgh in July, 1892. It is 

 distingiiished by Mr. Barrett as being " smaller than terrclla, with j^ro- 

 portionately broader fore-wings, the costa of which is decidedly arched 

 before the middle." It is to be hoped that this last addition rests on a 

 Hiore solid foundation than have most recent additions to the Gelechiidce. 



A g-ynandromorphous Smerinihvs poptili is recorded in the E. M. M. 

 as being bred in May last by Mr. S. C. Brown. The antenna and wings 

 on the left side are 3 > those on the right side are 2 . Sesia sphegiformis 

 is also recorded from Basingstoke, the emj^ty jjupa cases sticking out of 

 the alder stems about three or four inches from the ground. 



Hesperia actaon was taken this year during the last week in May. 

 In the fearfully cold and wet summer of 1888 some did not appear till 

 September. In ordinary seasons it occurs in July and August. Mr. 

 Dale refers (E. M. M., p. 164) to the species having a second brood 

 quite as a matter of fact. In his British Butter-flies, p. 218, he says, 

 " there are ajiparently two broods of the bvitterfiy, the first apiDcaring 

 in June, the second in August," &c. Has anything been done to 

 change the " apparent " two broods to a certainty ? A further remark 

 made by the same author is, that " the eggs are laid in June, July, and 

 Augi;st. The caterpillars hatched from the earlier-laid eggs, feed up 

 before the winter comes on, and hybernate probably in the chrysalis 

 state. Those from the later eggs hybernate small, and feed up in the 

 spring. Being full-fed in the middle or end of June, they remain 

 about a fortnight in the chrysalis state " (/. c, p. 218). Now aU these 

 paradoxical statements may appear very clear to Mr. Dale. 1st, the 

 butterfly appears in June and August. 2nd, the eggs laid by the June 

 butterflies feed up before winter and hybernate in the chrysalis state. 



