156 THE entomologist's record. 



hardly appears to have reached Skipwith. It must have been one of 

 the few oases that cropped vip here and there amid the general desert 

 of failure. 219 species of Macros and 127 Micros are recorded as the 

 result of the year's work. The most noticeable records, perhaps, M'ere 

 the gi'eat abundance of Choerocampa piorcellus at rhododendron 

 flowers, and of Noctua vmbrosa at sugar in August ; Notodonta 

 dictaeoides and Acronycta leporina were taken in the larval stage. 

 Annrta myrtilli was captured on April 21st and throughout May and 

 June ; a second brood commencing to emerge on July 14th. 



In The Entomologist for March, Mr. W. ¥. de V. Kane, evidently 

 guided by the remarks in The British Noctnae, &g., vol. i., p. 47, 

 records the pale forui of Chortodes arcuosa under the name of rnorrisii. 

 The information obtained from Mr. Dale and quoted there was 

 corrected in The British Noctuae, &c., vol. iv., pp. 99-101, where it 

 is pointed out that iiwrrisii is undoubtedly the prior name of C. bondii, 

 and a full account of the occurrence of this species in the neighbour- 

 hood of Charmouth is given. 



We are in receij^t of a little booklet from Mons. Enzio Keuter, 

 Helsingfors, on the destructiveuess of certain insects during the last 

 few years to various cultivated crops. The most interesting articles to 

 Icpidopterists are those on Charaeas (jraminis, Hndena secaiis, Apamea 

 husilinea, and Tortrix paleana, the last of which has recently increased 

 sufficiently to make it a pest, injuring more especially Phleum jrraten^e. 

 Insects of other orders are also fully dealt with both as to ravages 

 committed and remedies suggested. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt notes (The Naturalist, March) Fidonia piiwtaria, 

 which was captured in Kaincliff Wood, near Scarborough, by Mr. A. 

 H. Barker last year, as a good and interesting adtlition to the list of 

 Yorkshire Lepidoptera. 



Mr. N, M. Richardson (E.M.M., March, p. 61) adds Tinea vnicnleUa, 

 H.-S.,an insect which in colour and size somewhat resembles T. anjenti- 

 vuicidella, to the British fauna, from specimens bred from larvae 

 captured at Portland. It differs from T. argentimacnlella as follows : 

 " The wings are acutely pointed in vincnlella, but bluntly in argenti- 

 mucidella, this being most striking in the hind-wings, as it is rather 

 hidden in the fore-wings by the dense cilia. The markings m vincnlella 

 are broader and not so silvery, and the minute apical silvery spots of 

 argentimaculella are absent ; the markings also difl'er in shape in the 

 two species." The larva of vinculella makes a case out of lichen and 

 particles of stone, which lies quite close to the lichen-covered rock. 

 The larva of argentimacidella makes no case. 



The veteran Mr. J. W. Douglas, F.E.S., differentiates {E.M.M., 

 March, p. 68) Aleurodes proletella, L., from A. brassicae, Walk., by 

 means of the characters of their respective larvae, and establishes the fact 

 that A. proletella is indigenous, having been taken at Coddenham in 

 Suffolk. A.j)roletella feeds on celandine (Chelidoniwnmajus), A. brassicae 

 on plants of the cabbage tribe. 



In view of the great increase in entomological literature, Mr. A. K. 

 Grote proposes that the following points should alone be considered 

 in the compilation of the bibliography for monographic pai)ers and 

 catalogues : 1 . The original citation for the species. 2. All trivial 

 synonyms (these latter to fall away entirely in course of time when 

 ascertained beyond any cavil). 3. The reference for the combined 



