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the Nymphalidse, and was found near Florissant in Colorado. 

 This butterfly appears from its photograph, sent me by 

 Mr. Scudder, to be in a more perfect condition than any of the 

 specimens obtained from the European Tertiaries. — H. Goss; 

 Surbiton Hill, Surrey, January, 1888. 



Lepidoptera feeding on Vines. — May I trouble you with a 

 query, the reply to which will be of interest to others besides 

 myself? I have lately been enquiring as to what lepidopterous 

 larvae attack the vine, and am anxious to know as follows : — 

 (1) Does Batodes angustiorana feed on the ripening fruit in 

 summer, as reported to me from Kew, about which I think there 

 must be some mistake ? (2) What is the food-plant with us of 

 Tortrix vitisana ? I have no authentic account of its occurring 

 upon the vine in England. (3) Figuier describes, in his 'Insect 

 World,' an insect he calls the vine Pyralis. What species is it? 

 or is it not really a Pyralis, but a Tortrix ? — J. R. S. Clifford ; 

 4. Laurel Cottages, Gravesend, Nov. 6, 1887. 



[(1) Batodes angustiorana, Haw., is abundant in Britain, not 

 so on the Continent. Mr. W. P. Weston says, " The larva, which is 

 polyphagous, is to be found in May and June, and is very partial 

 to various fruit trees, privet, &c." (Entom. xiii. 113). It is 

 especially common on a privet hedge bounding my orchard here. 

 Stainton says, larva " on most trees." (2) I do not know this 

 name. T. vitana, Fabr., is a synonym of (Enectra j^ill^riana 

 (3) The insect figured in Figuier's ' Insect World ' (Engl. Trans. 

 p. 27G) is (Enectra inlleriana, Schitf. In Dr. Duncan's ' Trans 

 formations of Insects ' (pp. 142-5) the same plate is reproduced 

 with the correct names given. At the meeting of the Entomolo 

 gical Society of France on June 8th, 1881, the late M. Maurice 

 Girard spoke as follows : — " At the School of Horticulture of 

 Versailles, formerly the king's kitchen garden, there is a collection 

 of vine-stocks in pots, which are forced in the greenhouse. In the 

 second fortnight of May numerous little larvae and chrysalids are 

 found on the flowers and young grapes, which have produced in 

 the early days of June the Cochylis amhiguella, Hiibn. (= roserana, 

 Frohl.), — the Pyralis or Tortrix of the grape. This Micro- 

 lepidopteron, after the Pyralis of the vine, (Enophtlilra p'dlerlana, 

 Denis and SchiffermuUer, is the most fatal vine-moth. This 

 species has probably been imported into the greenhouses of 

 Versailles. I should be glad to assure myself if, as we can 



