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is ccnlincd lo certain limits which will not allow us to embrace any of 

 the above species as varieties. But my experience is limited and it would 

 not be strange were the fact to be afterwards proven. 



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Note upon iEgeria impropria, H. E., and a description 



of the 9. 

 By J. J. Rivers. 



University of California. 



The habit of this insect has hitherto been traced to the roots and 

 lower parts of the canes of the garden Raspberries. But this season it 

 was found equally at home in the roots of the cultivated sorts of Black- 

 berries, causing foliage and fruit to be dwarfed and dried and valueless. 

 I suspect that some other observer will discover that this insect is also ad- 

 dicted to the native species of Brambles though I have been altogether 

 unsuccessful in tracing it to such a source. 



The author of this species (Papilio, Vol. I, p. 193) described the J^ 

 of this insect and which is a good description of the t}pical male. But 

 there are examples that occur with three abdominal bands of pale yellow 

 and when three are present the third is at the base of the anal tuft. An- 

 other variation shows a tendency in the male to imitate the dorsal mark- 

 ings of the female by having well developed yellow bands on the 2nd, 

 4th and 6th segments and on the dorsum of all the other segments is to 

 be seen a cluster of yellow scales forming a nucleus of a yellow band. 



Description of the female : Fore-wings nearly opaque, the vitreous spaces 

 being nearly obliterated by a covering of dull orange scales ; though a coppery tint 

 is the general shade yet a broad line of dull purple traverses the costal region, the 

 nervules and the stigmata. Hind-wings as in the male but with the fringes of the 

 inner margin more flecked with yellow which darkens into a coppery bronze as an 

 outer marginal line; the remainder of the fringes is of a dull bronze. Abdomen black 

 with purple reflections, yellowish golden bands are on all the segments but the first 

 and third and even these exempted segments sometimes have a central spot of golden 

 scales. Caudal tuft shorter than in the rf', distinctly orange golden, the centre 

 blackish purple and towards the outer portion it is slightly flecked with black. Be- 

 neath, wings rich golden with the palpse, coxaj, and abdominal rings paler. Ab- 

 domen, stigmata and nervules more or less dark purple though the base of the fore 

 wings and some of the nervules of the hind wings are orange golden. Antennae 

 shorter than in the nf and without the pectinations found in that sex. Expanse, I9 

 to 22 mm. Males vary in expanse, 13 to 22 mm. 



Book Notices. 



Nouveaux Genres et Especes de Phycitid£e et Galleriidae, by E. L. Ragonot, 

 April 1888. Published privately by the author. 



In the above pamphlet of 52 pages Mr. Ragonot publishes very brief 



descriptions of 61 new genera and 230 new species of Phycitidas and Gal- 



