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the fine mulcted from the unlucky offender, it will be understood 

 that visitors are not likely to sin against the statute, or inci- 

 dentally naturalists to visit Abisko, in the future. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Heterusia taiwana, nom. NOV. Heterusia formosana, Wileman, 

 Entom. xliii. p. 179, June 1st, 1910. — As the r\a,me fonnosana is pre- 

 occupied in genus Heterusia by Heterusia aclea formosana, Jordan, 

 subspecies of cedea, Linn. (See Seitz's ' Macrolepidoptera of the 

 World,' vol. ii. Fauna Indo- Austral. 4th part = Exotica, part ix. 

 p. 34, April 18th, 1908), I have renamed this Formosan species 

 (which is allied to Heterusia tricolor, Hope) Heterusia taiwana. — 

 A. E. Wileman. 



EuRiPUS FULGURALis, Matsumura. — The type of this Formosan 

 species, which is in the Taihoku Museum, North Formosa {nee 

 Taiho ku) was described for the first time by me in the ' Entomolo- 

 gist,' xliv. p. 263, August, 1911. By error the description was 

 headed, "Euripus fuhjuralis, Matsumura." This heading should 

 read, " Eurijms fulguralis, sp. nov. — A. E. Wileman. 



Ovipositing op Sesia apiformis. — In confinement this species 

 lays its eggs freely and loosely in a chip box, and I have often 

 wondered how it disposes of them in a state of nature, as I have 

 searched in vain for them on and about growing trees in which they 

 bred. One morning early, in last July, my attention was called to a 

 female at rest at the base of a large balsam poplar in my garden, and 

 on watching it, I found it w^as engaged in laying, dropping its eggs 

 loosely on the ground. It continued to do this for a long time and 

 laid many eggs ; and when it took to flight it examined other trees in 

 the garden, and finding they were not poplars, flew away. Whether 

 it invariably lays in this way, I do not know, and I think it unsafe to 

 deduce a general rule from a single instance, but I may possibly have 

 overlooked other records of similar observations which would tend 

 to establish the rule. — W. H. Harwood ; Colchester. 



CORCYRA (MeLISSOBLAPTES) CEPHALONICA AT COLCHESTER. — On 



September 24th, 1910, my son on returning home from a collecting 

 expedition noticed a little moth which he could not make out, flying 

 outside a warehouse here. It proved to be C. cephalonica, and in 

 the course of the next few days we took a good series. They were 

 mostly at rest, some were paired, and others flying freely in the late 

 afternoon sunshine. We had never seen the species before, and are 

 not likely to see it again about the "same warehouse, which has since 

 been thoroughly cleared out and is now used for an entirely difi'erent 

 purpose ; while the adjacent warehouses, where the moth also occurs 

 to some extent, have been demolished altogether. — W. H. Harwood ; 

 Colchester. 



Pyrameis atalanta, ab. — On August 25th last I bred from larvae 

 collected locally a beautiful aberration of P. atalanta. This insect 



