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Correction of locality of a Tineid. — As insects assigned to a particular 

 fauna are often a source of miicli perplexity to students, it seems worth noticing- 

 that Gelechia (Helcijstogramma) ohseratella, Zell., Hor. Ross, xiii, 371, pi. v, 127, 

 attributed dubiously to Cuba (" vermuthlich von Cuba "), and included on the 

 strength of this by Lord Walsinghani in his list of West Indian Micro- 

 Lexiidoptera, is clearly identical with the earlier described Gelechia hihisci, Stn., 

 from India, which I refer to tlie geniis Strobisia. The larva feeds on a cultivated 

 Hibiscus, and it is therefore certainly possible that the species might have been 

 artificially introduced into Cuba ; but it is more probable that the record is 

 erroneous. As the species is tlio tyjie of the sub-genus Helcystogramma, that 

 name becomes a synonym of Strnhisia.—'E. Meyrick, Thornhanger, Marl- 

 borough : October 21th, 1910 



Leucania loreyi in the South of Ireland. — Among a number of insects re- 

 cently sent to mo to name by Commander Gwatkin- Williams, R.N., I found a 

 fresh looking specimen of the above rare species. It was beaten from ivy 

 growing on a gai'den wall about 30 yards from the sea, in the neighbourliood of 

 Qvieenstown, on the night of October 6th. — Gbrvase F. Mathew, Dovercovu't, 

 Essex : November 16th, 1910. 



Eupithecia lariciata and Coremia munitata at Huddersfield. — It is, I think, 

 many years since two species of Macro-Lepidoptera were added to tha Hudders- 

 field list in one year, but such has been the case during the past season. The 

 first, Etij>ithecia lariciata occvin-ed to myself in Farnloy Mill Wood in the third 

 week of June, but calls for little comment, as its previous absence was suffi- 

 ciently accounted for by the small quantity of larch which our woods contain. 

 I was indeed surprised to see it in the wood mentioned, containing as it does, 

 very few larches. In the woods only a few miles outside our area, but where the 

 conditions ai-e more suitable, the insect abounds. The other species, Coremia 

 munitata, is much more interesting It was found by Mr. S L. Mosley in some 

 ntunbers on higji moorland ground beyond Bilberry Reservoir, whilst Mr. B 

 Morley recorded it from another similar locality in the Skelmanthorpe district. 

 Both collectors showed me the species from the respective localities, neither, at 

 the time, having any knowledge that the other had taken it. As Huddersfield 

 for the past sixty years has probably never been without eager and energetic 

 Lepidopterists, it is now a question as to where C. munitata can have come fi-ora ; 

 as it seems incredible that a moth so conspicuous in itself and its habits, could 

 have been missed for so long, had it been about. Probably, too, this district is 

 the most southerly in England where the species has been found, though it is 

 recorded from near Glamorgan in Wales. — Geo. T. Pokritt, Elm Lea, Dalton, 

 Huddersfield : November 1st, 1910. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 



Thursday, October 13th, 1910.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a series of the Homopteron, Limotettix 



