00(j [October, 



only the male of this has been known ; I have now both male and 

 female. Possibly it may be necessary later on to separate this from 

 Westwood's species. 



The Genus CTLINDROCOCCTJS. 

 I have been favoured with a copy of a paper by Herr E. H. 

 Eiibsaamen, published in the Berlin Entomolog. Zeitschrift, 1894, 

 dealing with certain Australian gall-insects. At a future time I 

 propose to treat specially of this production, and only take this oppor- 

 tunity of observing that it appears to raise a large amount of very 

 positive dicta upon a very small basis of acquaintance, not only with 

 the Coccidcs, but with all that has been published about them. It is 

 entirely impossible for me to accept this author's proposal to turn my 

 Cylindrococcus casuarince into a new genus and species under the name 

 Crocidocysta Froggatti ; and I regret that when he began to think of 

 so doing, he did not see fit to communicate his ideas previously to me. 



Wellington, New Zealand : 

 July Wth, 1896. 



Colias in 1896. — As yet the genus Colias has been very poorly represented here 

 this season, the cool and generally ungenial weather of August having perhaps had 

 something to do with this scarcity. Of the very few specimens of the genus seen 

 by or reported to me, all have belonged to the rarer of the two British species. On 

 August 17th I saw a fine $ C. Myale on the Sheppey Cliffs at Warden Point, eight 

 miles from Sheerness, which escaped owing to my not having a suitable net ready 

 at the time ; and on the 20th I took a beautiful fresh specimen (also a J ) in a 

 lucerne field less than a mile distant from my house. One or two more " clouded 

 yellows " have also been seen in the Island, which, from the descriptions given to 

 me, can only have been C. Hyale. C. Edusa has not yet put in an appearance, 

 though about this time last year it was quite plentiful, while its congener, so far as 

 I can learn, was not observed here at all. I may add that, with the exception of 

 Vanessa urticcB, all the VanessidcB seem unusually scarce this year, and I have seen 

 only one fresh Pt/ramei's cardui, on August 22nd, at Guildford. — James J. Walker, 

 23, Ranelagh Eoad, Sheemiess : September 1st, 1896. 



Description of the pupa of Hesperia comma, L. — This local butterfly has, it 

 appears, been unusually plentiful this year in a favourite haunt on the steep slopes 

 of chalk hills a few miles from Reading. In some instances Mr. A. H. Hamm found 

 individuals in the act of drying their wings, and this set him to searching, with 

 success, for the empty pupa skins, of which he found several, and has very kindly 

 sent me one. When the living pupa cannot be obtained for desci-iption — and so far 

 as I know, this one has never been described — the next best thing is to obtain a 

 sight of the pupa skin ; for although the shape is not always very perfectly 



