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different habits, the one which feeds on Linaria habitually* descending 

 to the ground to pupate, the other which feeds on Plantago pupating in 

 the seed heads. 



Mr. Durrant comes to the conclusion that the species we call Conchylis 

 anthemidana, Curt., was never described by Curtis as such, but that the 

 species he recorded as subroseana, bred from larvae found on Anthernis, 

 Wilkinson afterwards described as anthemidana, Curtis. 



Mr. R. Newstead describes the new Coccid Lecanopsis formicarum, 

 and states that Mr. Dale's record of Bipersia tomh'nii (E. M. M., xxviii., 

 p. 219) really refers to this species, and adds Physokermes abietis to the 

 British fauna, from specimens taken July 4th, 1891, in Delamere 

 Forest on spruce fir. 



We are informed by Mr. H. Ames that Colias hyale was seen in 

 lucerne fields in the neighbourhood of Sheerness during the third week 

 in August. Mr. J. J. Walker records it from the same locality. Mr. 

 Page informs us of captures at Folkestone. 



Another Gelechia gone wrong ! Mr. Eustace R. Bankes refers the 

 specimens called Lita strelitzieUa in the Ent. Anjiual, 1872, p. 123, and 

 by means of which this species was added to the British List, to Gelechia 

 celereUa (Doug.), Sta. The same gentleman also repeats the facts 

 embodied in our " Current Note " (ante, pp. 202-203) in the E. M. M. 

 this month, in order to draw from Mr, Dale, if possible, some explana- 

 tion of his remarkable statements concerning Eesperia actceon. 



Our friend, Mr. Lachlan Gibb, contributes a paper to The Canadian 

 Entomologist (July Number), entitled " Notes on Collecting some of the 

 smaller Sesiidse in the London (England) District." In it he states 

 that in 1874 and 1875 he " took and saw several Sesia tiptdi/ormis in 

 Mr. R. Gibb's garden, St. Catherine Street, Montreal, among the currant 

 bushes," and he further suggests that " it would be found in any of our 

 old town (Montreal) gardens now." 



The following notice may be of service to English workers : — 

 " Dr. A. S. Packard has recently published two imjDortant papers on 

 Heterocera. One deals with The life histories of certain moths of the 

 family Cochlio2)odidoe, with notes on their spines and tubercles, and the 

 other records the author's Studies on the transformation of Moths of the 

 family Saturniidce. The former paper is in the Proceedings of the 

 American Philosophical Society, vol. xxxi, pp. 83-108 ; the latter in the 

 Proceedings Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences, 1893, pp. 55-92 " (American 

 Naturalist, July, 1893, pp. 681-682). 



We are indebted to Mr. Nelson M. Richardson for his paper, " Notes 

 on Dorset Lepidoptera in 1891," with splendid coloured figures from 

 the careful pencil of Mrs. Richardson, of the food plant (Pedicularis 

 palustris), the larva and imago of Eupcecilia geyeriana. Also to Mr. 

 Carpenter for a copy of his paper (reprinted from Natural Science) 

 on "Colour changes in Insects," in which the various recent views 

 on the subject are very carefully put forward and discussed. 



After Dr. Buckell's excellent criticism of Mr. Dale's ridiculous 

 notes on " Entomological Nomenclature," we probably shall not be 

 troubled with any more similarly undigested and erroneous material. 

 We have to thank Mr. Dale for bringing Dr. Buckell to the front, and 



* Mr. Warren mentions breeding a specimen from L. imlgaris, which must 

 have pupated in a flowerhead. — Ed. 



