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clear that the 'skippers ' must be called the Urbicolides, and its typical 

 genus, of which Barbut named comma, Linn., No. 256, the* type, 

 Urbicola." Possibly this action on the part of the author may be 

 perfectly legitimate, but we fear that its acceptance as a new starting- 

 point will still further delay the establishment of anything durable in 

 the way of classification, or, at all events, the nomenclature thereof. 

 As such matters are, however, still open to discussion, we will dismiss 

 them from the present notice aud turn to the less debatable contents 

 of the initial part of this new text-book. Acquaintance with the 

 author's other volumes on British Lepidoptera had prepared us for 

 masterly and exhaustive treatment of the Butterflies, and we certainly 

 are not disappointed. First of all, the superfamily is dealt with as a 

 whole, and including remarks on the general biological structure of 

 the Urbicolids (pp. 81-90). Then follows a consideration of the sub- 

 family Thymelicinae, tribe Thymelicidi (pp. 91, 92), with an account 

 of Adopcea lineola (pp. 93, 104). It is presumed that the pages 5 to 80 

 yet to come will be occupied by further introductory matter, but there 

 is no mention of this. The book will be found exceedingly useful 

 to everyone interested m our butterflies, but to the student in the 

 higher branches of entomology it will be indispensable. There is 

 a well-executed plate of Urbicolid ova, reproduced from photographs 

 taken direct from the eggs. 



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Late Flight of Dragonflies. — Mr. C. W. Dale forwards the 

 following records : Mschna mixta, October 17th, 1807 ; M. cyanea, 

 November 3rd, 1831 ; Sympetrum scotlcum, October 22nd, 1816 ; 

 S. striolatum, October 3rd, 1863. On November 12th last I saw a 

 dragonfly on the wing at the Black Pond, near Oxshott, which must 

 have been S. striolatum, and I have seen the species as late as 

 November 14th. At the same time I saw S. scoticum on November 2nd, 

 in 1902.— W. J. Lucas. 



Campodea staphylinus. — This insect was taken at Weymouth and 

 Portland in May, 1893, by Mr. G. Worth.— C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles 

 Wootton. 



Deilephila livornica bred from the Egg. — On June 6th of last 

 year my good friend Dr. Crallan, of Bournemouth, sent me four ova of 

 D. livornica, from a batch laid by a moth captured in that town. One 

 of these unfortunately hatched out during transmission. The next 

 day the three remaining ova hatched. I fed the larvae on vine-leaves, 

 till in due time they pupated. I am sorry now that I did not force 

 them, as two dried up. However, I was rewarded with one fine insect, 

 which emerged in the first week of September. — Joseph Anderson ; 

 Chichester. 



Lucanus cervus at Chichestek. — The stag-beetle (L. cervus) was 

 by no means uncommon here during the past summer. — Joseph 

 Anderson. 



