38 THE ENTOMOLOGIST^S RECOEt). 



A. atinovidla (which was also inchided in Zeller's series of A. illumin- 

 ati'Ua) is quite distinct. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett has added (with as many suggestions of douht 

 ahout his own action as we rememher having seen) another species to 

 the Leucaniids of the world. We have waded through his long 

 description (why do describers not give us the salient specific points 

 they rely upon ?) and make it agree with L. iiujmra ah. piuictiliiu'a 

 {Ijrit. Xoct., i., p. 4:0). These are the points that Mr. Barrett relies upon 

 for its specific claim : — "The somewhat greater robustness of the 

 thorax, the greater breadth and different shape of the fore- wings, 

 their very peculiar colour and texture." He further adds, " I know of 

 no connecting link to unite the form which I have here described with 

 L. jiallens, yet, from the presence and position of the three round 

 black dots (when visible), a very close alliance to that species in-,ist 

 be admitted." We should like to see these specimens before giving 

 an opinion as to whether /W/vVo^)/' is a distinct species. The specimens 

 came from the Essex (or Suffolk?) coast last July. 



Dr. Knaggs has devised a method for " dry relaxing " small 

 lepidoptera. He procured an " accurately stoppered, Avide-mouthed, 

 three-ounce bottle, a piece of sheet cork was cut in the form of a circle 

 of a diameter a trifle less than the mouth of the bottle, while a long 

 pin, stuck in its centre, served as a handle. Into the bottle two 

 drachms (^oz.) of sublimated napthalin, with six drops of wood 

 naptha, were introduced ; the insects, pinned on the stage alluded to 

 above, with their wings kept well away from the cork, were then 

 lowered into the bottle and the stopper replaced." In 48 hours 

 relaxation was apparently complete. Ordinary albo-carbon is not so 

 satisfactory for this purpose as the purena]3thalin. 



At this time of the year we cannot do better than call attention to 

 Graf-Krusi's excellent nets, which fold into an exceedingly small 

 compass. All our collecting during the last two years has been done 

 with one, and it has proved remarkably serviceable. 



Mr. E. Cornell records a specimen of I'ln'i/alia pcdaria, only 

 fifteen-sixteenths of an inch in expanse. 



Dr. Knaggs is anxious to re-open the old, old question of the intro- 

 duction of Ulostcra anachorcta into Britain. 



Mr. G. C. Green recorded in the Field the occurrence of i'l/aniris 

 anjioluH and Paran/c ri/eria, in South Devon, on March 30th. 



Mr. Shepheard-Walwyn records the pairing of Tacnidcampa 

 stabilis g and T. (/(itJiira $ , also of Hi/hoiiia iiiari/iiiaria J with 

 T. pulverulenta J . 



Mr. Morris records the capture of I'lmia )ii(>ncta in a garden at 

 Wallington, Surrey, in August, 1894. 



The Rev. 0. P. Cambridge writes : — " The spot where I and Bond 

 took Ch'ora vidnaria in tolerable abundance (in the New Forest), 

 appeared to me (in 1895) to be quite unaltered, with nothing, so far. 

 to lessen the likelihood of its occurring there now ; and its food 

 (supposed, I believe, to be the lichens on the old oaks) is certainly 

 still in abundance. I heard from a local collector there, ]\Ir. C. 

 Gulliver, that it had not been taken for a great many years. It was 

 unknown to the latter, and, indeed, he did not know the exact locality 

 where it used to occur, nor the method of working for it. This, I 

 suppose, accounts for the long price that this pretty moth fetches 

 when now brought into the market ; but I would ask whether any 



