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and girdle, and was in the quiescent stage preceding pupation (pupa- 

 tion took place on the 15th), three others were about 1 inch long, 

 whilst the remainder were still exceedingly small, one hardly more 

 than -375 in. in length. Yet they were all out of the same batch of 

 eggs, and have been treated the same way ever since the end of July, 

 1907, when they hatched. Similarly, with regard to Leucoina salicis, 

 the larvii) of these all hatched last August, lived in the same sleeves, 

 came out from hybernation on the same day (about April 26th), have 

 been in the same sleeve, and yet some of these are just ready for pupa- 

 tion, whilst others are still hardly any larger than when they left their 

 hybernacula. I cannot say these all came from the same batch of ova, 

 on the contrary, I believe they were part of three batches, but they all 

 hatched the same week, viz., the third week in August, 1907. — A. M. 

 Cochrane, Lewisham. June 16th, 1908. 



Gracilaria syringella flying over elder. — I have solved my 

 puzzle (aiitea, p. 145) as to (iracilaria syiinf/ella Hying over elder. 

 A small privet-bush growing among the elder was quite overlooked. 

 Its leaves are, like those of the other privet-bushes in the garden, quite 

 disfigured by the bladdery swellings that the larvae of G. syringella 

 make. One of those I opened contained five of the little transparent 

 greenish larvae. — Id. 



Irregular hatching of eggs of Ennomos tiliaria. — In mid-October, 

 1907, 1 found a $ Iviuionins tiliaria restingon a horse-chestnut tree in East- 

 down Park. 8he laid a number of the characteristic flat brick-shaped 

 eggs, which remained all the winter, but commenced to hatch on 

 •June 4th, 1908 ; since then they have emerged at the rate of two 

 or three a day, missing some days, until now (June 16th) some 42 

 have hatched altogether, leaving eight unhatched. — Id. [The last 

 egg hatched June 24th.— A. M.C.J 



Pegomyia univittata not in Ireland. — There is a slight error in 

 the " Current Notes " of the June Record. I did not take Peyomyia 

 univHtuta in Ireland, but P. fiavipes. Fin., a species already in our 

 list, and it was by comparison with my specimen of P. //acZ/jt's that 

 Mr. Carter was able to diti'erentiate P. nnirittata. — H. W. Andrews, 

 F.E.S., Shirley, Welling. June llth, 1908. 



Trochilium andreniforme in Kent. — 1 bred the only example of 

 this insect, which I was fortunate enough to get into pupa this j^ear 

 on June 15th. — J. Ovenden, Frindsbury Road, Strood, Kent. 



First broods of Adactylus bennetii and other plumes. — I found 

 the first brood of this species fully out in the Medway marshes on the 

 evening of June 15th. On the preceding day, Adkinia hipumtidactyla 

 was discovered in a wood, on the Maidstone Road; whilst possibly not 

 a third of the larvae of Hellinsia carphodactyla collected here have 

 produced imagines during the last ten days ; a tremendous number 

 of ichneumons, however, have emerged.— J. Ovenden. June \Qth, 

 1908. 



CURRENT NOTES. 



The Swiss entomologists on a limited local knowledge of the two 

 allied Satyrids — Satyrus alcyone and S. herniiune — are always inclined 

 to lump these as one species. Those entomologists with wider know- 

 ledge insist very strongly on their separation. To us there is no doubt 



