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Daaijcawpa nd>i(iiiua, but met with no success until March 20th and 

 21st, when I obtained two each evening, all females. I fed them 

 carefully with thin syrup, but two died in a few days, and a third on 

 April 30th, whilst one is still (May 4th) alive. They commenced to 

 lay on March 22nd, and have continued to do so at intervals until 

 the present time, so that I have now ova, larvfe and imagines at the 

 same time. A few of the larvte have already moulted twice. On 

 March 20th and 21st the Taeniocampids were well represented. T. 

 pidrerulentci (very common), T. i/otltira (common), T. incerta (a few), 

 T. stabilis (fairly common), T. iinuitla (a few),T. {/ raci lis {two), 2\ 

 mimosa (a few), Panolis piniiwrda (one), and in addition, at sallows, 

 T. populeti, Orrhodia vaccinii and Scopelosotna satellitia were common 

 both at sugar and sallow. On March 20th and 21st, Teplmisia bistortata 

 was well out, and continued to be taken sparingly up to April 24th ; 

 on the latter date I took my first T. crespusndaria (l)iundularia), in the 

 same wood. Xi/ssia Jrispidaria continued to be taken sparingly until 

 March 13th, when a friend and myself took eight males and one 

 female. I have not seen it since. Lohup/uu-a lobnlata was first taken 

 on March 21st, and on April 16th I captured a male LophoptenjA- air- 

 nielita, and on the 17th and 18th a few Tejihrosia punctulata, L. lobn- 

 lata, Xylocavijia areola, Fidonia atomaria, I'ocJn/cntniia liippocasianaria,. 

 Evpithecia pnwilata and T. bistortata (3). These latter are the first 

 taken in an entirely new locality. On April l^ih.. Boar mia cinetaria 

 and Eupithecia abbreviata were obtained ; and on April 24th, Tephrosia 

 pmictnlata, L. lobulata and Lopjiiopten/.r carmeUta (male) were cap- 

 tured, besides the T. bistortata and T. crepuscularia previously men- 

 tioned. On May 1st, T. neprtscidaria (binndularia) and Cucullia 

 wiibiatira were captured, whilst T. punctidata was very abundant. — 

 A. H. Hamm, 24, Hatherly Road, Reading. 



URRENT NOTES. 



Mr. Champion {E.M.M.) shows that A. succicola, Thorns. (? = A- 

 sparsa, Heer), not hitherto recorded from Britain, and A. moesta, 

 Gray., are confused in British collections under the latter name- 

 Most of the specimens in British collections are A. succicola, Platys- 

 tethns alutactiis, Thoms., is also recorded as a British insect from 

 ? Morden, Surrey, and Slapton Ley, Devon (captured April, 1897). 



Mr. Eustace R. Bankes (E.M.M.) gives a very interesting resume 

 of the distribution of Geleckia snjqjeliella, Wlsm., in Britain and 

 Germany. The larvfe from which Warren bred G. suppeliella {E.M.M., 

 XXV., p. 161), were taken near West Wickham, and the Rev. G. H. 

 Raynor captured the species at Sandy, in Beds, in 1883. He further 

 points out that the true G. peliella probably does not occur in Britain. 

 He considers that Stainton's descriptions in 7. B. Lep. Tin., p. Ill 

 (1854) and Xat. Hist. Tin., ix., 106-15 (1865), must have been made 

 from suppeliella, and not from peliella. Lord Walsingham adds that 

 the distribution appears to be as follows: — " 6^. ^Wid-ZZa, ? Lapland, 

 Livonia, Oesel, Germany, Holland and Corsica. G. suppeliella^ 

 Germany, Holland, England." 



Mr. Lucas records {Entom.) and describes (with figure) Anisolabis 

 annnlipes, Lucas, from Kew Gardens, the specimens having come to 



