1902.] 263 



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Hah. : On roots of grasses (and other plants ?), usually one or two 



inches underground. Pumlaluoya, Ceylon. 



EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. 

 Fig. 1. — Anomalococeus cremastogastri, side view of adult 9 , x 0. la. — Ditto, 



posterior extremity, x 100. 

 Fig. 2. — Amorphococcus mesua, section through gall, showing 9 insect in position, 



x f>. 2a. --Ditto, posterior extremity of adult 9 > * ^33. 

 Fig. 3.- Oeococcus radicum, antennae of adult 9 > x 100. 3«. — Ditto, anal lobes of 

 adult 9 , x 100. 3i— Ditto, dermal pores, x 433. 3e.— Ditto, pos- 

 terior extremity of young larva, x 433. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon : 



September 19th, 1902. 



Leucania albipuncta in Suffolk. — It is satisfactory to be able to record a further 

 extension of the range of this comparatively recent immigrant in these islands. A 

 very fine specimen, taken at sugar in his own garden at Hemley, Woodbridge, 

 Suffolk, has been kindly submitted for my information by the Rev. A. P. Waller, 

 Rector of that parish. — Chas. G. Barrett, Tremont, Peckham Rye, S.E. : Sep- 

 tember 20th, 1902. 



Xantliia ocellaris at Ipswich. — Whilst Mr. Prout was looking through my 

 small collection of Lepidoptera last spring he noticed a specimen of this species 

 which I had placed with X. qilvago, thinking it a variety of that moth. I 

 captured the insect at Ipswich on September 12th, 1898, whilst it was at rest on 

 a shop window close to an electric light.. — E. C. Bkdwell, 25, Ossian Road, 

 Stroud Green, N.: October, 1902, 



Hepialus humuli in the Faeroe Islands. — On July 19th, 1900, between 8 and 10 

 p.m., I took fifteen specimens (four 9, eleven <?) of the Ghost Moth (Hepialus 

 humuli) at Klagsvig in the Faeroe Tsles. The curious point about these specimens, 

 which are now in the Hope Collection, is that, in spite of the geographical position 

 of their locality, they are intermediate between the typical variety of the species 

 and the variety hethlandica. The wings of four of the males are pure white, those 

 of two others are only very slightly tinged, while the remainder are comparable to 

 the palest males in a large series of hethlandica from Shetland with which I have 

 compared them in the Hope Department. — Nelson Annandale, Hope Department, 

 University Museum, Oxford : October 6th, 1902. 



Variation in Lithosia deplana, Esp. (depressa, Esp.).—I have been a good 

 deal interested in reading Mr. Bankes' notes on the above-named species in the 

 October number of the Ent. Mo. Mag. (antea p. 229). Curiously, the only two 

 females which I possess (both from Box Hill) are of the uriicolorous sororculaAike 

 variety, and I had not noticed the disagreement of this form with the published 

 descriptions and figures. I find, however, that it does not seem to have been either 

 figured or named ; Hubner's ochreola, fig. 96, and his luteola (Beitrage, i, pt. 3, 



