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one; unlike the ordinary form of P. chrysomela, the whole upper side, with the ex- 

 ception of a few scales at the posterior angles of the thorax, is entirely destitute of 

 scales or raised hairs, but is covered uniformly witli somewhat sparsely placed, de- 

 cumbent, ashy pubescence, which does not conceal the blackish ground colour. M. 

 Bedel does not appear to have seen so marked a form before, but has seen transitional 

 specimens. It is not the var. salsicola, Fairm. — Id. 



Trichoptiliis pallidum, Z., in Fast Devon. — Whilst collecting last September in 

 East Devon I took several small Plumes which subsequent investigation proved to 

 be T. pallidum. They were flying in the afternoon over a boggy piece of ground, 

 and their short flight of about a yard from tuft to tuft of stunted heather made 

 them difficult to see. The most westerly record given in Barrett's " British 

 Lepidoptera " is Dorset, but the species evidently exists over the borders of this 

 county. — Arciidale Sharpin, Bedford : March \Uh, 1908. 



Pyrameis virginiensis, Drury (huntera, F.), in the Isle of Wight. — My friend 

 Mr. E. G. R. Waters, of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, has just brought for my in- 

 spection, and has asked me to record for him, a fine example of this well-known 

 American butterfly, which he captured at Luccombe, Isle of Wight, on August 26th, 

 1905. It was taken on the Undercliff close to the " Chine," not more than twenty 

 yards from high-water mark, on a "yellow-flowered Composite plant," in all proba- 

 bility Inula crithmoides, which was frequented by numerous Vanesndie, including 

 Pyrameis cardui ; of this species Mr. Waters at first thought his insect was a 

 curious variety. It is a large $ , expanding 2 inches 7 lines (65 mm.), rather paler in 

 colour than usual in North American examples, but in excellent fresh condition, and 

 with the exception of a small chip out of the right hind-wing, quite perfect ; indeed, 

 it is difficult to imagine how it can have reached the shores of the English Channel 

 in such good order, except, as suggested by the late Mr. C. G. Barrett (British 

 Lepidoptera, vol. i, p. 155) " in a quiescent state by means of a ship." This is the 

 third British-caught specimen of P. virginiensis that I have had the opportunity of 

 examining, the others being the example in the Dale collection at Oxford (of. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xlii, p. 99), and one shown to me long ago by Mr. G. C. Bignell, 

 taken at Antony, near Torpoint, Devon, by Miss C. L. Pole-Carew in September, 

 1876, and recorded in the " Entomologist," vol. ix, p. 255.— James J. Walker, 

 " Aorangi," Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford: February 24£A, 1908. 



Halesus guttatipennis, McLach., at Pocklington. — To the few localities for 

 Halesus guttatipennis may now be added Pocklington, Yorkshire. Among some 

 insects of various Orders recently given to me by Mr. William Hewett, of York, I 

 found a specimen of this species labelled " Pocklington, October." — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Huddersfield : March 5th, 1908. 



Hystrichopsylla narbeli, Galli- Valerio. — When I was at Lausanne early this 

 year Professor Galli-Valerio kindly gave me permission to examine the only specimen 

 of H. narbeli, a $ , on which the description of this species was based. The speci- 

 men agrees with the <? of II. talpx, Curtis ; the name narbeli is therefore a synonym 



of talpas. — K. Jordan, Zoological Museum, Tring : March, 1908. 



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