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sufficiently favourable season. An interesting account of the species, with coloured 

 figures of the imago, larva, and galls, will be found in the Nat. Hist. Tin., vol. xii. — 

 EcrsTACE R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle : February loth, 1896. 



Remarkable variety of Qelechia domestica, Hw. — Among some Lepidoptera 

 received for identification from the Rev. C. R. Digby in the autumn of 1894 was 

 the most startling variety of Geleclda domestica that I had ever seen. The head, 

 thorax and basal portions of the fore-win^s, up to about one-third of their length, 

 are whitish-ochreous, but whiter even than in ordinary pale examples, whilst the 

 whole of the rest of the wing area is blackish-fuscous, only relieved by a few small 

 scattered whitish-ochreous scales and a small spot of similar colour on the costa, 

 which spot is the only vestige of tlie obsolete fascia ; the ordinary black stigmata in 

 this part of the wing are invisible, but the three typical black spots nearest the base, 

 being in the pale area, are well defined. The fringes are pale whitish-ochreous, but 

 for a dark longitudinal dash at the apex of the wing. Hind-wings and fringes of 

 the usual colour. This species often varies considerably, some specimens being very 

 pale, whilst in others the pale ground-colour is much obscured with fuscous, but the 

 individual under notice presents a wonderful combination of the two most opposite 

 extremes of variation that can well be imagined. — Id. 



Cucullia gnaphalil near Sevenoaks.—l took a larva of this insect in the Seven- 

 oaks district on August 24th, 1894 ; it spun up on August 27th, and the perfect 

 insect appeared on June 23rd, 1893. — Edward Goodwin, Wateringbury : Feb- 

 ruary, 1896. 



Dorset localities for species of Pericoma. — -Amongst a dozen species of Psycho- 

 didcB which the Rev. A. E. Eaton has kindly named for me, are four which are (he 

 tells me) of sufficiently local distribution to make a record of their localities 

 interesting. They are as follows : — Pericoma compta, Etn., three specimens from 

 near Weymouth, September, 1890 ; P. neglecta, Etn, one specimen from Abbotsbury, 

 August 5th, 1891 ; P. morula, Etn., one specimen from near Weymouth, May 29th, 

 1891, and one from Bloxworth, bogs, July 8th, 1891; P. fusca, Macq. {nee P. 

 calceala,Mg.),{vTO specimens from Bloxworth, bogs, July 8th, 1891. This last, a 

 rather conspicuous blackish species, was, if I remember rightly, abundant where it 

 occurred, in the swampy ground by the river, not in the heath bogs. — Nelson M. 

 Richardson, Montevideo, near Weymouth : September 2oth, 1895. 



The Label List of British Lepidoptera, compiled after "A Handbook 

 of British Lepidoptera:" by Edward Metrick, B.A., F.Z.S , F.E.S. 34 pp. 

 8vo. London : Watkins and Doncaster. 1896. 



This List is very clearly printed, and on fine paper, and seems admirably adapted 

 for its purpose. The generic names are in Roman type, the specific in italics. But 

 it seems a pity that a lower fount of type should have been used for the old Micro- 

 Lepidoptera, the larger size being, however, maintained for the goat-moth, "Swifts," 

 etc., that find themselves " degraded " in the new arrangement. 



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