234 THK entomologist's record. 



Mr. Durrant also (ibid.) gives a description of the hitherto unknown 

 imago of Fnmea I limulus, lighfr. This is a case-bearer whose habitat 

 is Ceylon. Kogenhofer, who was only acquainted with the case and 

 the larva, supposed that it was a Psychid ; but Mr. Durrant, who de- 

 scribes the imago from four specimens in Lord Walsingham's collection 

 which were bred by Mr. Green at Pundaloya, points out that it is not 

 a Psychid but belongs to the Depressariidae, and constitutes the type 

 of the new genus, Psendodoxia. Mr. Durrant says: — " The occurrence 

 of a case-bearing larva in this family {Depressariidae) is interesting, 

 and appai-eutly unrecorded, but I have reason to believe that 

 coleophorous larvas occur in more families of the super-family Tineidae 

 than is generally sui)posed." 



Mr. J. J. F. X. King, F.E.S. of Glasgow, adds {E.M.M., May) two 

 species of Ilydroptilidae to the British list ■.—HiidropAila tiijnrina, Eis, 

 which is not uncommon in the Ambleside district, and Oxyethira frici, 

 Klap., of which he has a single specimen taken in the Kothiemurchus 

 district a few years ago. 



V Ami des Sciences NatureUes, a popular monthly illustrated 

 magazine, began its career on duly 1, 1894. It is edited by Mons. 

 Eug. Benderitter fils, is published at Rouen (Rue des Champs-Maillets, 

 11), and the subscription is 6 francs per annum. Coleopterists will 

 welcome an illustrated analytical table of the coleopterous genera of 

 France by Mons. Houlbert, which is appearing from month to month. 

 Another interesting series of articles, of a popular kind, on the dung- 

 beetles, by Mons. Coupin, should be of general interest. 



We learn from Science Gossip for May that Mr. W. M. Christy has 

 bred Ni/ssia lapponaria, " which has apparently only been found once 

 previously in the seislands," from larva? which he found last year in 

 Scotland. We hope Mr. Christy will be able, without so indicating the 

 locality as to set the entomological " bag- men " on the track, to tell us 

 something of the circumstances under which he made the discovery. 



OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes from the Exchange Baskets. — Mr. Fenn (Lee) 

 writes on Jan. IHth : — " Mr. Home's Scoparia is, although a peculiar 

 variety, undoubtedly atomalis, and if it were not for the fact that in a 

 long series it graduates into S. amhi(jn(ilis, I should say it was distinct. 

 Ainbignnlis is very variable, both in markings, size and habit, and in the 

 present state of our knowledge it is impossible to say certainly that 

 there are not at least three or four species mixed up under this name. 

 Mr. Finlay's amhignalis are of a very interesting form ; another very dis- 

 tinct form occurs at Darlington." Mr. E. A. Atmore (King's Lynn) 



writes on February 18th: — "Dr. Corbett's Lithocolletis is very interest- 

 ing. As Mr. Richardson has observed, it is a curious variety, but one 

 side of the l)ody is not very unlike L. Idemannella, but darker and more 

 brilliant than in my specimens of the latter. I breed an occasional 

 specimen of L. UernauneUa from tlie under surface of leaves of the alder 

 (Ahiiis (jlutinosa), growing here. 1 am sending round in the exhibition 

 box for Dr. Corbett and others interested to see, three specimens of a 

 LithocoUctJs sent me as /.. diinnini/iella. The first, or top specimen, and 

 tlu' next, are from Mr. G. Elisha, in 188H, and named by him L. dun- 



