36 [July, 



Change of generic names. — In vol. xiii, p. 23, of this Magazine, I described a 

 new Coleopterous insect from New Zealand and called it Camirus convexus. I find 

 the word Camira has already been used for a genus of Coleoptera, and I therefore 

 propose to alter the word Camirus into Camiariis, so as to differentiate it sufficiently 

 from the pre-existing Camira. 



Epistrophus (mihi, Ann. Nat. Hist., xviii, p. 22) must also be changed, on account 

 of Epistrophus, Kirsch. (Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1868), and I propose to call the Colydiid 

 insect Epistranus Lawsoni. — D. Sharp, Thornhill, Dumfries : June 14//*, 1878. 



Strange locality for Anohium panioeum. — Lord Arthur Russell has brought to 

 my notice a curious instance of that adaptability in this insect, wliich accounts so 

 easily for its abundance and wide distribution. Ten years ago, he bought a parcel of 

 powdered Orris root at the well known Convent of Sta. Maria Novella at Florence, 

 where the nuns sell various articles for toilet purposes. This parcel was accidentally 

 unopened until now, and was found to have afforded a pasturage and breeding-ground 

 for many generations of the beetle, which swarmed in it. My first introduction to it 

 in any quantity was in a Medical Lecture Room in the Strand, where it had estab- 

 lished a colony in a human skeleton, which had been dried with the ligaments left 

 on.— E. C. Rye, 70, Charlewood Road, Putney, S.W. : June loth, 1878. 



Observations respecting Phalcsna Stratonice of Cramer. — In the 21st part of the 

 "Tijdschrift voor Entomologie," recently published, there is a paper by P. C. T. 

 Snellen upon P. Stratonice of Cramer. The author states that in February of last 

 year he obtained a pair of Japanese moths from Mr. Heine, which reminded him 

 greatly of Vithora indrasana, of Moore, as represented in the figure (P. Z. S., 1865, 

 pi. 42, f. 5), and also (excepting in the structure of the body) of Cramer's Phalcena 

 Stratonice. 



Knowing how frequently broken specimens of insects are mended up with the 

 bodies, antennae, &c., of other species, he was " inclined to suspect a similar deception 

 " in this instance, but before concluding this to be the case, he induced Mr. C. 

 " Ritsema, the ever-obliging Curator of the insect-room in the National Museum at 

 " Leiden, to see if specimens of P. Stratonice existed in the Museum, and to let him 

 " know what kind of antennae they had." The following was Mr. Ritsema's reply : 

 " The Museum possesses two examples of Ph. Stratonice, Cramer, both possessing only 

 " the left antenna, whilst in one also the abdomen is wanting. The other example 

 " seems to me, or, rather, I am certain of it, to be a female.* The antennae of both 

 " at first sight seem to be like one another : slender at the base, slowly growing 

 " thicker towards the end, and, as it seems to me, provided near the end of the 

 "joints with some fine little hairs. f Cramer seems, to judge by the strongly combed 

 " antennae, to have figured a male." Mr. Snellen then examined his moths, and 

 finding that one of his specimens was a male, he concluded that the antennas of 

 Cramer's original were false. 



After recording the above possible fact, Mr. Snellen goes on to criticize the view 

 held by recent Lepidopterists of the affinities of Vithora (which he now considers 

 congeneric with Ph. Stratonice) , and states his opinion that it is nearly allied to 



* Evidently from the width of the abdomen, 

 t Just the same as in Vilhora i/iarasaiw., Moore 



