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" Djaydubhlew tuttisiinus, nov. sp. Hab. Blackheath," forwarded in 



most approved entomological style. Mr. \F. N. Pierce's " Entomo- 

 logical diabolo," delightfully suggestive, the larva wonderingly waiting 

 with a net to see what he may finally come to, whilst the devil spins 

 the pupa in the air ; excellent photos taken during the summer 

 holidays by Dr. Chapman and others, besides endless beautiful cards. 

 Time alone is wanting to return individual thanks. 



The best piece of " natural history" work done for many a long 

 day among the lepidoptera of North America, is Cook's " Studies of 

 the genus Incisalia," a Callophryid genus of hairstreaks allied to our 

 Callo]ihri/s riibi. Now that the foodplant of Incisalia polios has been 

 determined as Arcto:<tap/n/los uca-nrsi, and eggs, larvye, and pupns have 

 been in due course obtained, Mr. Cook deserves the congratulations 

 of all those lepidopterists, who are naturalists in the true sense, for 

 his determined attack on this little-known group. We particularly 

 owe Mr. Cook our thanks, being entirely indebted to him for most of 

 the facts, connected with this group, which Ave have published in 

 Chapter x of our second volume of The Natural History of the British 

 Buttcrjiies. We still await successors to Edwards and Scudder, who 

 were naturalists before all things, and systematists only as an after- 

 thought, even if they were the best that America produced in that 

 direction also. 



We have received an apparently carefully compiled and interesting 

 list of the " Lepidoptera and other Insects observed in the Parish of 

 Mortehoe, N. Devon," by Dr. G. Longstaff. It is most unfortunate 

 that Dr. Longstaff has chosen to follow the impracticable and still- 

 born " Meyrick list," and offers us such items as Chrysuphanns 

 astrarc/ie and Chrysophamis phlaeas. We are interested in these 

 species, and dislike greatly seeing such heterogeneous elements forced 

 into so unnatural an union. 



It is with the greatest regret that we hear, just as we are going 

 to press, of the death of one of our sub-editors, Mr. A. J. Chitt}'. A 

 full notice will appear in our next issue. 



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Entomological Society of LondoxN. — Xovrmber 20th, 1907. — Rare 

 coLEOPTERA : Tropidcres sepicola, F., taken in the New Forest near 

 Matley Bog, July 7th, 1904 ; O.vylaoiiKs rariolosus, Dufs., from 

 Darenth Wood, March 2nd, 1903 ; and Apian anmdipes, Wcnck., from 

 Darenth Wood, August 27th, 1905, Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe for 

 Mr. W. West of Greenwich. Micromorphism in a Beetlk : A 

 remarkably small specimen of Melo'e proscarabaeiis with an example of 

 the normal size, Mr. Willoughby Gardner. Forms of Akaschnia 

 LEVANA : Examples of Araschnia levana var. prorsa and inter- 

 mediates, bred from larva; found in the department of Aisne, France, 

 in June last. Out of 176 individuals that emerged from the pupal 

 stage, 109 were var. prorsa — 65 S sand 44 $ s ; 4 approached nearly to 

 ab. poriina — 2 <? s and 2 ? s; 29 were intermediate between prorsa and 

 poriina — 28 ^ s and 6 ? s ; all emerging in a room of average tempera- 

 ture at Croydon, July 80th-27th. The forms poriina and intermediates, 

 he thought, were attributable to the cold summer. The remainder 

 of the specimens came from pupa3 which, as soon as formed, were 

 removed to a refrigerator and kept there for flfteuu days, being after- 



