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lacHstris, the only other plant in which I have found it being 

 Sparyaniiun ramosum, while I have never found anything but N. typhae 

 in stems of Tijplm. In any case I can strongly recommend the Scirpun 

 to anyone working for cannae, and when working for it to cut the stems 

 as low as possible under water, especially if the weather is hot, as the 

 larvae often go down far below the waterline, almost to the roots of 

 the reed. Until I discovered this habit I used to cut just on the 

 waterline, where I saw holes, and must have missed many larvae. — 

 (Capt.) C. a. Cardew, 50, Melbury Gardens, Wimbledon. Awjust 6th. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



EUCHLOE CAKDAMTNES OVIPOSITING ON CaPSELLA BURSA-PASTORIS. 



When near Hailsham, in the middle of May last, I noticed the very 

 fine condition of many plants of the common weed. Shepherd's Purse. 

 Many of them were over a foot high and free from the usual road 

 dust. Euchlo'e cardamines was abundant, and I was surprised one 

 morning to see a female butterfly walking over a Shepherd's Purse 

 and laying her eggs on a plant growing just at my feet. My brother, 

 H. Leonard Sich, already had larvae on the same species of plant and 

 when, in one of the lanes, we gathered a fresh supply, he found eggs 

 had also been laid on the pieces he had gathered. Most of the eggs I 

 have previously found were deposited on Alliaria oificinalis, and I 

 never remember reading of C. bitrsa-pastoris as a food-plant of E. 

 cardamines. — Alfred Sich, (F.E.S.), Chiswick. Auymt 27th, 1912. 



CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The final portion of the Collection of the late J. W. Tutt will be 

 sold at Steven's sale rooms, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, on 

 September 24th, 1912. It comprises the sections which were under- 

 going re-arrangement at the time of Mr. Tutt's death. The whole of 

 the Sphingids, the Bombyces, the Nolidae and the Anthrocerids had been 

 largely arranged in accordance with the text of "British Lepidoptera." 

 There are also long series of many Continental species of the 

 Lithosiidae, AntJiroceridae, Pterophuridae, etc. 



The Editorial Staff of our Magazine seem to have been well to the 

 fore at the International Congress at Oxford. Dr. Burr was General 

 Secretary to the Congress. Messrs. Bagnall, Bethune-Baker, J. E. 

 Collin and G. Wheeler acted as Secretaries to some of the sectional 

 meetings. Mr. Bagnall, Dr. Chapman, Mr. Donisthorpe and Rev. G. 

 Wheeler read papers. Mr. Bethune-Baker introduced the Resolution 

 on Nomenclature, on behalf of the Entomological Society of London, 

 and Mr. Sich took part in the discussions. 



Volume II. of the Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History 

 Society has just come to hand, and we are pleased to see that what 

 was said in the notice of the previous volume can be repeated, viz., 

 " That the Carlisle Natural History Society is to be congratulated on 

 the issue .... and deserves praise not only for the excellence 

 of the contents, but for the first-class style and get-up of the part as a 

 whole, the printing being exceptionally well done." The contents of 

 the present volume are comprised in 256 pages, of which 146 pages 

 are devoted to (1) The Lepidoptera of Cumberland, Part II. (Moths), 



