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very well, but we have had to leave the woods and go into the old 

 green lanes. We were in Defter Wood last night, and took Urrhodia 

 lii/ida, J>irhnnia aprilina, Misdia n.rj/accoithaf, Anc/iocdis nifina, A. 

 liUira, (}. rarrinii, and Bmtolcnnla virticulosa. It was the best night we 

 have had in a wood the whole season. — Feed. Lawton, Common End, 

 Skelmanthorpe, nr. Huddersfield. September 21.st, 1896. 



Notes on Apion l^vigatum. — I have read, with considerable 

 interest, Mr. Morley's article on the genus Apion in the October 

 number of the Entoiiwlor/ist's Record, and would like to add the 

 following note on the rare species, laerit/attwi, Kirby. The first specimen, 

 a female, was taken by Rev. Mr. Kirby, at Barham, in Suffolk, many 

 many years ago, and was in his collection ; and the second, a male, 

 by myself, in a field at BirchAvood Corner, about 50 years ago. I 

 afterwards (same year) took 7 or 8 specimens of both sexes, in the 

 same field, when accompanied by Messrs. Walton, Waterhouse and F. 

 Smith. Altogether about 18 specimens were captured. The field, 

 the following year, was ploughed up, and laerii/atuin has not been taken 

 since. We took them early in September, by sweeping ; the herbage 

 was very mixed, and we could not find the plant it frequented. — 

 Samuel Stevens, F.L.S., F.E.S., Loanda, 61, Beulah Hill, Norwood. 

 October nth, 1896. 



Deilephila celerio at Cheltenham. — I took a fairly good speci- 

 men of Deilephila celerio on September 24th, at rest on the stable wall 

 here. — (Major) R. B. Robertson, Wellington Court, Cheltenham. 

 October IQth, 1896. 



Boletobia fuliglvakia at Hull. — The enclosed specimen, which 

 I believe to be Bnletohia fidiiiinaria, was obtained at light in Earle's 

 shipyard, in Hull, about three weeks since. It was given to Mr. 

 Russell, who has recently gone to South Africa, and has left the insect 

 in my care for the present. — J. W. Boult, 9, Finsbury Grove, Fountain 

 Road, Hull. October l.v^ 1896. 



URRENT NOTES. 



The second part of the sale of Mr. C. A. Briggs' collection will 

 take place on November 10th, when the magnificent series of Kwloridae, 

 in 29 lots ; the " Plumes," including Mr. Vaughan's extraordinary 

 variety of O.ri/ptilus parvidactylm ; the Ckambides, including three 

 CrambuH verellm, C. myellus, C. rorellus, Ephestia pri/erella, Cateremna 

 terebrella, Kepliopteryx rhcnella, etc. ; and a few Tineides, including 

 fine series of Solenobia triqnetrella, S. inconspiciiella, I'l/sehoides 

 rerliuellella, E.vaeretia allisella, etc., will be disposed of. 



Mr. R. A. Cooley describes (and figures) in Psyche, vol. vii., pp. 

 395-398, " a new structural character in insects." It is a small oval 

 patch of short sharp spines on the underside of the fore-Aving near 

 the base of the hind margin. It is present on very many Heterocera, 

 and is accompanied by a corresponding patch on the thorax at the 

 place where the spines rest when the Avings are in repose. It is an in- 

 teresting fact that some Trichoptera possess similar spiny structures, and 

 that in the Hymenoptera the spiny area has been found in two species, 

 Ti-emex columba and Urocerus cremmi; in these latter, the patch on the 

 wings bears a close resemblance to that of the Heterocera, except that 

 the spines are more blunt. They are found in both sexes, and hence 



