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entonwrrhha, and received from Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, in whose 

 flower-garden at Bognor they had been found. The larvae of this 

 species prSve destructive there, feeding on the roots of Ilelleborun, 7m-, 

 Paeonia, and, in fact, on everything with available roots, but the 

 infested larvae were only obtained from clumps of Paeonia officinalis, work- 

 ing to the surface during the winter months. The affected larvfe were of 

 two classes: (a) Some show anteriorly much fibrous .net-like mycelium 

 growth, accompanied by a drum-stick-like process often more than 

 half the length of the larva ; these larvfe do no Avork out of the ground, 

 but the fungoid fructification appears above ground, resembling a small 

 reddish toad -stool, and the net-like mycelium seems to anchor the 

 larvte in their places, (b) Others show no fungoid growth externally, 

 and these work completely out of the soil, and lie about on the surface. 

 Mr. Fletcher suggests that the dead larvae, perhaps, arrive there through 

 the movement of the soil, resulting from sunshine and rain, frost and 

 thaw, acting on the larval hairs, and allowing a forward but not a 

 backward motion. 



At the meeting of the South London Entomological Society held 

 on April 9th, Mr. South exhibited, (1) typical Cucullia verbasci, (2) 

 ('ucitllia lyc/mitis, (3) Sj considerable series of specimens sent to him 

 from Germany as Cnndlia scrophulariae, but which he stated were, in 

 his opinion, a mixture of ('. verbasci and C. lychnitis. He stated that 

 he desired information, but believed the (.'. scrophulariae oi this country 

 was merely (\ lychnitis. Mr. L. W. Newman stated that, there was a third 

 very distinct species in England, the larvae of which he found on the 

 marshes near Dartford, at the same time that those of C. verbasci were 

 occurring on the downs in the same district. Mr. Tutt stated that 

 the specimens exhibited by Mr. South were of three characteristic 

 species, the ('. scrophulariae being, with the possible exception of two 

 examples, correctly named; they agreed absolutely with the C. scrophu- 

 lariae found in Kent, and were most certainly, he thought, neither 

 ('. verbasci nor ('. lychnitis. He would roughly suggest that C. 

 lychnitis was a " downs " species, C scrophulariae a " marsh " species, 

 and C. verbasci largely a " downs " species, but of a wider habitat, and 

 sometimes found on marshes. 



Krulikowsky describes (Sociefas Kntoinoloi/ica, xxin., pp. 2-3, 11-12) 

 a number of aberrations of lepidoptera taken in East Russia. One 

 suspects that some of these may have been described before, e.y., the 

 uniform yellow form of Bunria luteolata has, we believe, been described 

 twice already in England. The British species noted are : Pieris rapae 

 ab. (J praeterita, Pontia daplidice var. jachontovi, Colias hyale var. 

 supercavanea, Kpinephele jurtina abs. $ huenei and illuminata, 

 L'oenonympha pauiphilus ab. seniilyllus, Macrothylacia rubi ab. $ trans- 

 fuija, Miana strigilis ab. amoena, Tapinostola helhnanni ab. expressata, 

 Plusia fcstucaeoh.marisola, Pseudoterpna pruinata var. virellata, Larentia 

 tnontanata ab. condnuata, Corewia ferruyata ab. strandi, Pelurya cotuif.ata 

 ab. ferruyinascens, Gonodontis bidentata oh.edentula, Pauuia luteolata ab. 

 flavissima, Venilia macularia ab. transversaria, Piston hirtaria -ab. 2 

 tcrroraria, Bupalus piniarius ab. J fiiscantaria, etc. 



At the meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society, held on March 15th, 1908, an exhibition of f)oaniiia repandata 

 and its varieties took place. Long series of the moth from various 

 localities, chiefly from the north of England and from Wales, were 



