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Euperitelus, Ch. : synonymical note. — This Curculionid genus, type E. albo- 

 varius, Ch., from " Durango, Mexico," described by myself in the Supplement 

 to the Central American Otiorrhynchidse [Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iv, 3, 

 p. 341, pi. 15, figs. 30, 30a (1911)] is synonynums with Peribrotus, Gerst. [Arch. 

 f. Nat. XXXVII, p. 72 (1871)], type P. pustulosus, Gerst., from Mombasa, and 

 the name Euperitelus must be suppressed. E. albovarius, moreover, is so like 

 P. pustulosus that it probably belongs to the same species. The type of E. albo- 

 varius was given me by my friend Signer A. Solari of Genoa. It bears a printed 

 locality ticket, " Sierra de Durango, Messico, Hoge," and therefore was assumed 

 by me to be a Mexican insect ; but as the specimen in question had been 

 purchased from a dealer there is little doubt that some mistake had been made 

 in labelling. I am indebted to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall for calling my attention 

 to the subject. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : October 9th, 1914. 



Abundance of Pyrameis cardui at Bridlington. — In the middle of last 

 month (September) I noticed Pyrameis cardui in great plenty at Bridlington — 

 as abundant, indeed, as I have ever seen it anywhere at any time. They were 

 flying freely in the gardens in the town on the front opposite the sea, and in 

 the small garden of the house at which I was staying numbers of them coixld 

 usually be seen whenever the sun was shining— very often several at a time on 

 a flower-head of Michaelmas daisy a few inches in circumference. They formed 

 a striking feature, too, on the flower beds in the public gardens close to the sea. 

 A couple of nights of rather keen frost in the third week in September, how- 

 ever, seemed to send many of them into hibernation, as the species was not so 

 numerous afterwards, though the frost did not appear to diminish the numbers 

 of Pyrameis atalanta and Vanessa urticse, both of which were in good force, 

 though not so plentiful as cardui. The main strength of the immigration of 

 cardui in Yorkshire — probably in the spring — was apparently at that part of 

 the coast, as at Scarborough, rather over twenty miles away, I found it much 

 less numerous, and at Whitby, considerably further north again, but where I 

 only spent one day, I failed to find it at all. As is so often the case when 

 cardui is abundant Plusia gamma was in swarms, but it is difficult to believe 

 that their occurrence together can ever be anything more than a coincidence. 

 P. cardui has occurred here at Huddersfield as well as in other inland districts 

 of our county this season, so it may be that the immigration has spread 

 widely over the country. — Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield: October 3rd, 1914. 



Vanessa antiopa in Norfolk. — Mr. C. G. Barrett (son of the late Mr. C. G. 

 Barrett, a former editor of this journal), has asked me to record that his daughter 

 took a very fair specimen of Vanessa antiopa as it was settled upon some 

 wood at Gaywood, near King's Lynn, on September 15th last. — Geo. T. 



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A probable third brood of Pieris brassicx. — The two common white butterflies 

 Pieris brassicx and P. rapx, have been more than usually plentiful here this 

 year, especially in the larva state, as is only too evident by the " skeletonized " 



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