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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



A New Generic Name in the Hemithein^. — I regret that by 

 an unaccountable oversight I overlooked the name Orthocraspeda in 

 Hampson's Fauna of British India : Moths, 1, p. 393, and have 

 employed the same name again in my recent revision of the 

 Geometrid subfamily Hemitheinge (Gen. Ins. fasc. 129, p. 28, 1912). 

 For Orthocraspeda, Prout, nee Hampson (type netunaria, Guen.) I 

 therefore propose the new name of Orthorisma. — Louis B. Prout ; 

 62, Graham Road, N.E., May 3rd, 1912. 



Plusia moneta. — Is it known how P. moneta passes the winter ? 

 I am inclined to think that the egg is laid on the seed of the plant 

 while in the pod. For this reason : last autumn I bought some new 

 flower-pots from a brick-yard, not from a nurseryman, one of which 

 I filled with earth from a meadow far from any possible Delphinium 

 or monkshood, and in it planted some seeds of Delphinnim bought 

 from a seedsman. This pot was kept in a greenhouse through the 

 winter, in which there were not and had not been any other Del- 

 phinium plants. When my seedlings were about an inch and a half 

 high, there, curled up among them, was a small P. moneta larva. 

 How did it get there ? The only possible way seems to be that it 

 was among the seed, either as ovum or larva, and all things con- 

 sidered it does not seem feasible that it could have survived if it was 

 in the larval stage. Hence I conclude that the egg is attached to a 

 seed and so passes the winter. — W. Claxton ; Navestock Vicarage, 

 Romford. 



Gynandrous Euchloe cardamines. — It may be of interest to 

 record the capture of a gynandrous specimen of E. cardamines at 

 Oxshott, on May 12th. The left side is female and the right side 

 male. The orange has a splash of white through it on both upper 

 and under side of the wing. There is also a black streak radiating 

 from the tip of the wing towards the centre. — D. S. Williams ; 

 77, Durham Road, East Finchley, N., May 13th, 1912. 



Brephos parthenias, ab. — On March 23rd, 1912, I took, on 

 Wimbledon Common, several B. parthenias, all in very fine con- 

 dition ; one of these has the whole ground colour of the hind wings 

 pure yellow, with the usual blackish markings. Seeing that you 

 state that this form of B. parthenias is rare (' Moths of the British 

 Isles,' Series ii. p. 98), I thought it might be well to record the 

 capture. — W. Saville ; 16, Mincing Lane, E.G., April 25th, 1912. 



Drymonia chaonia, ab. — On the evening of May 7th I took a 

 specimen of D. chaonia on a street lamp. It is without the usual 

 white band, and of a uniform dark sooty colour. — Bertram E. 

 Jupp ; Lyn Lodge, Camelsdale, Haslemere. 



CoLiAs EDUSA AT Reigate. — A Specimen of C. edusa was flying 

 in my garden this morning (May 12th) at 10 a.m. It went straight 

 across in the usual manner of the species. I have heard of another 

 specimen being seen. — T. A. Chapman; "Betula," Reigate, May 

 16th, 1912. 



ENTOM. — JUNE, 1912. . P 



