274 THE kntoMologist's record. 



(Dartmouth), by the son of a Mr. Owen. Mr. Morres saw the 

 specimen in 1892, on the setting boards. It appears to be a pity that 

 such rare insects are not reported without delay. The Rev. G. Hughes 

 records the capture of Leuccmia mdpuncta {twtranca) in the New 

 Forest, on October 8th of this year. Mr. G. M. ElHson, the capture 

 of a specimen of Kuvanessa antiopa, at Bracebridge (Lincoln) ; Mr. W. 

 F. Kirby, the capture of several specimens of the same species from 

 " Forfarshire, from the Isle of Skye, and other localities in Scotland." 

 Mr. P. W. Abbott, the capture of Tjcuccuiia ritt'llina and L. alhipiuuta, 

 at Freshwater. 



Mr. Durrant points out that Stainton described {Ent. An., 1860, 

 pp. 144-145) the larva of (ii'lcchia pelidla as "dark chocolate- 

 brown," etc., and as spinning a web "along the stems of liumcx 

 curtusdla." Warren then described [E.M.M., xxv., p. 161) the larva 

 as " pale whitish-green in colour, etc." Lord Walsingham has proved 

 that Stainton's original description is correct, and that the larva 

 Warren described belonged to another species ; the latter has now 

 been described {E.M.M.), and named Gelechia mppdiella by Lord 

 Walsingham. 



Mr. G. C. Champion states [E.M.M.) that " the insect known to 

 British coleopterists under the name Anisodactijlm (Harpalus) atri- 

 cornis, St., is a variety of A. ui'iiiorivaf/us, Duftschm., and not of 

 A. bmotatus, Fab., as hitherto supposed, and Duftschmid's name must, 

 therefore, be added to our list of Carabidae, it antedating that of 

 Stephens by twenty years. 



Eeading of the abundance of Tdvtrixviridana larv;p, Mr. C. W. Dale 

 examined the oak trees on September 14th, and reports [K.M.^l.) 

 " never having seen better foliage." Did Mr. Dale expect to find 

 the foliage of the oak-trees showing the traces of the feeding of 

 T. viridana in the middle of September ? 



Mr. W. Holland reports breeding Tiliavea (Xaiithia) aitrai/o on 

 hornbeam. When newly hatched, the caterpillars buried themselves 

 in the buds. Later they spun the young leaves together and lived, 

 two or three together, in the little tents they formed. By the middle 

 of May they were full-fed, and spun little cocoons amongst the leaves 

 and rubbish at the bottom of the cage. In these they remained six 

 weeks before changing to pupa^. 



The death of Mr. Joseph Chappell, at Manchester, is announced 

 in the Manclwstcr i'itij News of October 10th, in his sixty-seventh year. 



SOCIETIES. 



The City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — Oct. 20th, 1896. — Aberrations of Crocallis elinguaria and 

 Himera pennaria. — Mr. Oldham exhibited a very pale specimen of 

 Crocallis elinguaria, and a female specimen of Ilimera pennaria, with 

 the transverse lines very strongly marked. Hypsipetes ruberata from 

 Cambridgeshire. — Mr. Oldham also exhibited a bred series of 

 H. rnherata from Cambridgeshire, which Mr. Tutt said appeared to be 

 identical with the Wisbech form. Ehyssa persuasoria from Norfolk. 

 — Mr. Oldham then exhibited a specimen of this Hymenopteron, taken 

 in Norfolk. Selenia tetralunaria. — Mr. D. C. Bate exhibited a female 

 specimen of the summer brood of Selenia tetralunaria, which, although 



