NOTES Oh LIFE-HISTORIES, LARV^, ETC. 837 



the costal margins of the wing-cases. (2) The 1st thoracic segment 

 is marked with two slightly curved lines, parallel with each other, 

 extending to the level of the lateral scries. (3) The anal segment is 

 unmarked. (4) On the 2nd and 3rd thoracic, and first 9 abdominal 

 segments, there is a double dorsal series of dots. (5) The lateral 

 series are placed as follows : ~{a) The 3rd to 9th abdominal segments 

 have on either side three dots in line. The central very minute. 

 (6) The other two of the same size as the dorsal. The 5th to 8th 

 have a fourth minute dot, below the lower of these, (c) The 2nd 

 and 3rd thoracic segments have the three dots, but the central is out 

 of line, forming a triangle. In the 2nd the central dot points 

 towards the first thoracic, and in the 3rd in the direction of the 1st 

 abdominal segment, {d) The 1st abdominal has but two dots, the 

 2nd but one. {e) The costal margins of the wing-cases are marked 

 by a line along their entire length. Position and mspcnsion : Attached 

 to the underside of a leaf of the food-plant by the cremaster, and by a 

 silken thread passing over the body at the junction of the 3rd thoracic 

 and the 1st abdominal segments. — H. L. Wood, Old Grammar School 

 House, Ashford, Kent. 



drURRENT NOTES. 



Whilst we are doing our level best to protect Forthesia [FAiproctiK) 

 cltnjsorrhoea from extermination in this country, our friends in 

 Massachusetts, where the species was first noticed about five years ago, 

 have passed an Act requiring local authorities to take immediate steps 

 for its extinction, and to prevent its spread. France, as early as 1734, 

 passed a law requiring landowners to destroy the caterpillars of this 

 species, to which, Porthetria dispar and other species were afterwards 

 added. As a matter of fact, in spite of the general abundance of these 

 species in Europe, their numbers, except in occasional seasons, are 

 never sufficient to cause really serious harm, and serve largely, when 

 they are specially abundant, for exciting newspaper paragraphs. The 

 Bulletin can be obtained from Professor Fernald, of the Mass. 

 Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., U.S.A. 



Mr. T. P. Newman feels that the remark on p. 257 tends to throw 

 a slight on the memory of his father. We need hardly assure our 

 readers that no such slight was intended. The remark was 

 based on hearsay evidence, and the recollection of letters received 

 in the early " seventies." Mr. Newman thinks that our recollection 

 may have been at fault, and states that, in his opinion, his father 

 did not receive or distribute the eggs. This view is strongly supported 

 by the statements in Entoin., vi., p. 33, and ix., p. 210. 



We have great pleasure in informing our readers that Mr. Horace St. 

 .John K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S., will, commencing with Volume 

 X., edit a special section of the Entoinolof/ist's Piecord, devoted to 

 Coleoptera. Coleopterists may, therefore, if they prefer, send their 

 communications direct to Mr. Donisthorpe, at 73, West Cromwell 

 Road, Kensington, W. 



Ekrata. — P. 261, line 28, for " variety " read " species " ; p. 240, line 47, for 

 " CatoptriaaemidaiHi^' rend " C. tripoUtnui" ; and line 49, for " C. decolonnui " 

 read " C. (leinuhnui " ; p. 281, line 2 from bottom, E. epiatytjne. This was a hipsii^ 

 raliinii in the original note from which the quotation was taken for " E. sti/ipK' " ; 

 p. 09, line, 2.0, for " Catocala pacta" read " Catocala parta" ; p. 292, line 9, 

 for " Acidalia ochrata " read A. '' perochrarui." 



