2 r »2 December, 



Beautiful variety of Arctia villica. 

 — The variety of Arctia villica here 

 figured was taken by me some years 

 ago at Guildford and is now in rny 

 collection. Unfortunately the margins 

 of the wings are somewhat damaged, 

 as a cat had a hand (or rather a paw) in 

 its capture, but the markings are as 



clear us in the sketch. I had overlooked it until overhauling my boxes last season. 

 I should be glad to know if a similar variety has been met with by other 



collectors, as this is the only specimen I have seen. — F. Walter Savage, University 



School, Hastings: November, 1880. 



A list of Micro- Lepidoptera for collectors. — In the last part of the 41st volume 

 of the " Stettiner entomologiscbe Zeitung," recently published, is a list of the 

 Pomeranian Pyralidina, Tortricina, Tineina, and Pteropliorina, in all 911 species. 

 This list, compiled by F. O. Buttner, with additions by Prof. Hering and Dr. Schleich, 

 is a model of concentrated information, which will not only be, primarily, of great 

 service to collectors in Germany, as giving to all of them in a compendious form 

 knowledge acquired by few, but it may also, for the same reason, be of essential use 

 in this country. With many exceptions, the hitherto known British species 

 are included ; of the others it is very possible a good many may yet be found in 

 Britain, and this list may be of much assistance in discovering them ; it may also 

 aid in obtaining more examples of some of our rarities ; in both cases, by the 

 indications of habitat, season, and larva-food, all or any of which may not be known 

 to us. The list will be especially advantageous to those collectors who rear larva?. 

 The following extract, taken at random, gives a fair idea of the plan of the work : — 



GRAPHOLITHA, Tr. 



" 40 (1131). Roseticolana, 7i. The moth in June on wild roses. The larva in 

 autumn in the fruit, which thereby becomes discoloured. The transformation in 

 decaying wood, stems of plants or the like. In captivity the larva bores into the dry 

 pith of the elder given to it for that purpose." 



Our collectors may also learn, amongst other things, that the law of priority of 

 name is followed as a matter of course ; that the uniform ending of specific names 

 in alis, ana, ella and dactylics, which was once so much insisted on in this country 

 as the proper thing, is simply ignored in Germany— the fatherland of the literature 

 of Micro- Lepidoptera. 



It is sad to find, by an obituary notice in the same part of the " Zeitung," that 

 the author of this list, F. O. Buttner, the most assiduous of the Stettin collectors of 

 Lepidoptera, and the discoverer of many new species, died on the 4th June last at 

 the early age of 56 years. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 19th 

 November, 1880. 



Notes on Coleoptera in Sussex. — The present season seems to have been 

 particularly favourable to the propagation of the Bledii; in company with Dr. 

 Power, on the 16th of August, I visited a locality near Shoreham, which I had long 

 thought would produce something good, and where I had befo *e found Cillenum 



