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chief thill"' I could discover was the impression of the face, or one 

 side thereof, upon the inner surface, whicli was fairly smooth, save for 

 these impressions. — (Rev.) C. R. N. Burrows, The Vicarage, Rainham, 

 Essex. 



A NEW British speciks of the GELECHiiDiE : Lita interjiediella, 

 HoDGKiNsoN. — In the October number of The Entoni. Record, I noted 

 a probably new species of Gelechia. It is quite distinct from Lita 

 fraternclla and Lita viscanella, the yellow spots being smaller, and the 

 insect itself more mealy in general appearance. It agrees with a 

 specimen that I have had for some years, and which has stood reversed 

 ill my cabinet as undetermined, thinking it might possibly be a worn 

 specimen oifratrrneUa. I have all the species of this group, except 

 cKiicati'lla and ricinrlla, and it is referable to none of the species in iny 

 collection. — J. B. Hodgkinson, F.E.S., Rosebery House, Ashton-on- 

 Ribble. [There are between 80 and 90 European species of Lita described. 

 Surely our correspondent should compare his species with the descrip- 

 tions of all the described European species before providing it with a 

 name. Several Micro-lepidopterists have since referred the specimen 

 to L. fraternclla. — Ed.]. 



How CoLiAs edusa winters. — In the Knt. Fiecord, vol. vii., 

 pp. 250-252, I discussed the question of " How Colias ednsa winters," 

 and I have summarised the results there arrived at in my recent book on 

 Jlritish Ijidtcrfiies,])]). 261-262. Regarding the spring emergences of this 

 species, viz., that in February and March, and the later one of May 

 and June, Mr. Merrilield has put into my hands information in 

 support of the paragraph relating to the first of these {Lut. lire, vii., 

 p. 251). The writer is an inhabitant of Hyeres, and he offered to get 

 Mr. Merrifield " larvte and eggs in March or April." Mr. Warburg, 

 too, has sent me the dates on which he captured these broods at Cannes. 

 From these I find that he captured the early brood from February 17th 

 onwards, in 1892, and the second from May 9th onwards. In 1894 the 

 dates extend from February 17th onwards for the first, and May 10th 

 onwards for the second, whilst captures in April suggest either that 

 the first brood hangs about for a considerable time, or that the 

 second one feeds up rapidly, and appears quickly. Probably it is the 

 latter, for migrants reaching England June lst-8th, in 1877 and 1898, 

 produced imaginal progeny July 21th = 6-7 weeks, so that perhaps the 

 dates of April 11th for 1892, April 4th, 1898, April 10th, 

 1894, represent the earliest emergences of the second brood. Mr. 

 Warburg says:— "C ed^tsa is not an insect that one goes out of 

 one's way to catch on the Riviera, so that the fact of my not taking it 

 before a certain date does not show that it may not have been out 

 some time."— J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill, S.E, 



On the affinities of Epixephele tithonus.-— With regard to your 

 remarks {ante, vol. viii., p. 236) anent the classification of Epinepluie 

 titltonns, do not you think that the masculine sexual shading of this 

 species indicates that the group it belongs to is that which is so cha- 

 racterised ? I refer, of course, to the patch of heavy scaling on the 

 fore-wings of the males of most species of Kpim-jdiele, absent in all the 

 Coenonijiitpltidi that I know. The species nearest to E. tithonus is 

 E. ida. The females of both species approximate nearly, but the g 

 patch is different in contour. As to the early stages of the insects 

 \K. titlionm and Coenunipnplta), I am quite ignorant. — W. F. de V. 

 Kane, M.A., F.E.S., Drumreaske House, Monaghan. 



