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of L. straminea, richly tinged with reddisli ; and one example of the more ordinary 

 colouring, but having a broad, conspicuous, shaded black stripe from the base two- 

 thirds the length of the fore-wings. — Geevase F. Mathew, H.M.S. " Hawke," 

 Salonica: Oetoher I2th, ISQU. 



Argyresthia Qcedartella in Phytoptun clusters. — Some time ago our old friend 

 and former co-editor, Dr. H. Gr. Knaggs, sent me a lot of curious gall-like bunches 

 or tufts of birch which had been given him by his next door neighbour, Mr. Meakin, 

 and were obtained from a birch tree growing in his garden in the Camden Eoad. 

 There were Lepidopterous larvae in them, and it was desirable to know to what species 

 they belonged. The gall-like bunches were, I suppose, pi'oduced by Phytoptus 

 hetulcB, but they were not like the great masses of small twigs which in the country 

 sometimes look as large as a magpie's nest, and excite the wonder of the passer-by, 

 and which are taken possession of by Pyralis glaucinalis as a suitable habitation for 

 its larvae ; being actually mere aggregations of leaf buds, not twigs at all, but really 

 soft enough to be broken up and pulverized by the fingers. Moreover, the London 

 atmosphere had left its mark upon them, much as though they had been rubbed in a 

 chimney. The bunches were none of them large , and I hardly hoped to rear anything 

 from them ; but in due time appeared scores of Argyresthia Gcedartella, some with 

 the usual light silvery markings, others wholly of the brilliant golden hue. They did 

 not appear to have fed in the more natural buds at all, but emerged from the densest, 

 most crowded, portions of the masses of buds, and were of equal beauty and size to 

 those produced under the most favourable circumstances. — Chas. Or. Bareett, 39, 

 Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : October V7th, 1896. 



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Joseph Chappell. —The death of Mr. Joseph Chappell at Manchester in his 

 sixty-seventh year, is announced in the " Manchester City News " of October 10th. 

 He had an unrivalled knowledge of the Coleoptera and Lepidoptera of the 

 Manchester district, in which he had lived and collected for over forty years. 

 For many years he was a mechanic at Sir Joseph Whitworth's works, but about 

 twelve years ago underwent amputation of one of his legs. Dui'ing the Jubilee 

 Exhibition, held in Manchester in 1887, he had charge of the living silk-bearing 

 Lepidoptera. He was an Honorary Member of the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Society. His extensive collections had recently been purchased by 

 Mr. Schill, of Cheadle, near Manchester. His geniality of disposition endeared him 

 to all with whom he came in contact. — J. Harold Bailey. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : September 2\st, 1896.— Mr. P. W. 

 Abbott, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. C. Bradley showed Ephestia Kuhniella, bred from larvae sent from 

 Liverpool. Mr. G. W. Wynn, a series of Orthosia suspecta from Sutton Park ; 

 Chcerocampa porcellus, one from Northfield ; Cymatophora duplaris from Sutton ; 

 and Luperina cespitis, Eugonia erosaria (a series), Pterostoma palpina, Notodonta 



