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(Devon), on ]\Iay 6tb, 1922. i'assida nohilis. One was takon at the 

 lattei- locality on May I8tb, 1922. — R. Beck, 87, Pilton Street, Barn- 

 stnple. 



D. I.IV0RNICA : AN KARLY VISITOR. — I took in my garden here, May 

 13tb, a ver}' fine specimen of Deilejihila livornica, hovering at dusk over 

 the flower of the large Saxifrage {Mi'nalea cardi folia). It was a very 

 cold evening, and this moth is the first one of any kind that I have 

 taken this year. I have never taken it or seen it in this district 

 previouslv. — R. Barnard Cruickshank, Alverstoke, Hants., Mai/ 16f/(, 

 1922. 



(irUJRRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The Mosquito Investigation Committee of the South-Eastern 

 Union is very actively continuing its investigation of Aiiojihclea 

 phniibcHs. They have forwarded another Report to the Ministry of 

 Health in reply to the queries as to the results of the investigations 

 carried on by various field workers in the S.-E. area of England. 

 Even dry as the summer period was, many water-holes in trees 

 remained sufficiently moist, or even retained water enough to allow 

 the larvffi to resist the influence of the general drought. 



Correspondents have written asking where a list could be obtained 

 containing the varietal, aberrational, and racial names which the in- 

 tensive study of variation in our common species of Rbopalocera is 

 making more or less necessary. This we hope shortly to prmt in our 

 pages. It is being compiled by Dr. Verity and Signor Querci, and will 

 we understand give the reference of the original description, and also the 

 locality from which the described species or form was brought. No 

 doubt this will be a great help to students of variation, save a deal of 

 time spent in research, and of a certainty obviate much duplication of 

 names. 



\Ye are glad to find an awakening of Entomology in Poland ; may 

 the study of it increase in that little known area. M. Tenebaum, of 

 Warsaw, has sent us two separata of articles of which he is the author. 

 (1) Contains a description of a new^ Coleopteron from the island of 

 Crabrera (Balearic Isles), viz., Colotea cahrerensis, with a figure of the 

 imago; it is written in French and Polish. (2) Contains an anno- 

 tated list of the Rhynchota of the Warsaw area comprising some 194 

 species, with dates and localities. This latter is in Polish alone. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Colorado, has contributad a series of 

 articles on the "Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum," to the 

 Annals and Mui/azine of Natural Historij. We have just received from 

 him copies of parts vi. and vii., both containing account of the 

 •* Oligocene Insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight," with figures of 

 practically all the species mentioned. Copies of these notes may 

 possibly be obtained by those interested on applying to the London 

 Societies, to whom the author has sent a number for distribution. 



Among the deaths of entomologists recently recorded are those of 

 Prof. Gilbert Storey, F.E.S., at the early age of 81, the entomologist 

 of the Department of Agriculture at Cairo, V. R. Perkins, of Wootton- 

 under-Edge, an ex-president of the South London li^ntomolo'^ical 

 Society, who had reached the advanced age of 91, and Hans Fruhs-- 



