142 [November. 



find it alluded to by Prof. Westwood in his paper as printed in Trans. Ent. Soe. 

 Lond., 1882, p. 320, but not in an extended manner. Hia other reference occurs 

 in the Pi-esident's Anniversary Address to the Ent. Soc. on January 22ud, 1866, 

 who quotes from Dr. Asa Fitch's " Eeports on the Noxious, &c., Insects of 

 New York." — Eds.] 



Parasites on Homoptera. — In his "History of Glanville's Wootton" (1878), at 

 page 304, Mr. C. W. Dale remarks, " I wish to call attention to a very curious black 

 parasite, about the size of a mustard-seed, adhering to the side of various species of 

 the Somoptera, where the elytra join the thorax. Througli the microscope it looks 

 like a little black bag. I think it must belong to the Acari. Not having seen any 

 account of it, I propose to call it Homopterophagus dorset'tensis." 



I have no doubt these parasites are Gonatopi in the larval condition. 



As an addition to my previous note at page 116, I may now state, that on the 

 28th of last month I took nine specimens of Typhlocyba cratcegi, Doug., on a 

 hawthorn bush, one $ , eight $ , and of the latter two had each an ovoid parasite 

 attached near the base of the abdomen, not so large nor so black as usual, but 

 yellowish, fuscous outwardly. I attribute the size and light colour to immaturity, 

 for the foster-insects were but newly disclosed, and had not attained the coloration 

 of maturity. Unless these Typhlocyhce hibernate (which I never knew the species 

 to do), the parasites had but a short time before winter to feed up, which they would 

 have to do if the host died within a few weeks. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort 

 Gardens, Lewisham : October lOth, 1882. 



Note on Epkestia passulella. — ^As supplementary to Mr. Buckler's notes on 

 Ephestia passulella in this month's Ent. Mo. Mag. {ante p. 104), I may add that 

 the species is evidently double-brooded. On the 2l8t of June last, I received alive 

 from Mr. Davis, of Dover, three captured pairs of the moth, which deposited a con- 

 siderable quantity of eggs, and from them I have, during the last few days, been 

 breeding imagos. Some are still pupae, and larvae are yet daily spinning up and 

 changing, but all apparently are about full-grown, and show no disposition to hiber- 

 nate. No doubt this brood corresponds with the one from which Mr. Buckler's eggs 

 were obtained ; the moths sent me in June were rather late specimens, as Mr. Davis 

 had been taking the species some time previously. My moths deposited their eggs 

 on figs, on which the larvae have fed throughout. Their glass jar has stood in a 

 cold room facing the north. — Geo. T. Posbitt, Huddersfield : October 2nd, 1882. 



Error as to occurrence of Metinia duplana. — Mr. Barrett informs me that my 

 supposed Eetinia duplana is a male of Eriopsela qiiadrana. The specimen was 

 named from a " type " in Mr. Hodgkinson's collection, and the mistake is thus 

 accounted for. I owe Mr. Barrett my thanks for thus putting the identity of the 

 insect beyond a doubt. — I. H. Thbeifall, 4, East Cliff, Preston: October lUh, 1882. 



d^Htuarir. 



Br. a. H. K. Thioaites, F.R.S., F.L.S., died at Kandy, Ceylon, on September 

 11th, in his 72nd year. lie was best known as the Director of the Botanic Garden 



