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80 per cent, and upwards, and alive too, Mr. Hill should try the 

 experiment, and revive the long-lost variety ; he could have a full 

 series of nice fresh specimens instead of " a specin^'u" in his collec- 

 tion. — F. N. Pierce ; The Elms, D'ngle, Liverpool, June 16th, 1901. 



EucHLoii CARDAMINES AT Rest. — While "dusking" with the lantern 

 in the New Forest at the end of May, a specimen of this butterfly was 

 found at rest by Mr. H, Main on the partly uncurled tip of a frond of 

 bracken, where it was extremely well protected by resemblance. A 

 year or two since I recollect findiug one in the same situation on 

 Esher Common. — W. J.Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames, June 6th, 1901. 



Hemekobius concinnus bred. — Early in the spring I beat from 

 Piniia aylvestriti, on Esher Common, a number of yellowish larvae 

 mottled with a darker tint, rather under an inch long, which somewhat 

 resembled larvas of a ladybird, and which I took to be those of one of 

 the Chrysopas. Several pupated, and the pupa, which seemed to be 

 rather lively, was somewhat elliptical in shape, of much the same 

 colour as the larva, but smaller, and was enclosed in a slight silken 

 cocoon. Two produced imagines after a week or two at least — the exact 

 time was not noticed. Findiug that they were Hemerobius concinnus, a 

 species not long since looked upon as decidedly scarce, I was sorry 

 that I had not observed them more closely, and made figures of the 

 larva and pupa. — W. J. Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



CoLiAS HYALE PuPA : A CORRECTION. — I am indebted to Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman for calling my attention to a slip of the pen in my descrip- 

 tion of C. hyule pupa {ante, p. 171), where I stated that in the pupa 

 the wings reach the division between the fifth and sixth abdominal 

 segments, which should read the fourth and ^fij'th, as is stated in my 

 original description. — F. W. Frohawk ; June, 1901. 



Berlin Congrkss of Zoology. — The Fifth International Congress 

 of Zoology will be held at Berlin, 12th-16th August next. Visits will 

 be paid to the Museum and to the Zoological Gardens of Hamburg, 

 and a trip will be made to Heligoland. Prof. Grassi of Rome will 

 discourse on the Malaria-problem from the ZoologicaF Standpoint ; 

 Prof. Poulton, of Oxford, on Mimicry and Natural Selection ; and Dr. 

 Forel, of Geneva, on Ants, For information, apply to " Praesidium 

 des V. Internationalen Zoologen Congresses," 43, Invalidenstrasse, 

 Berlin, N. 4. 



PiERis RAP^, — This species is spreading gradually in New Mexico. 

 To-day a female specimen was taken in Las Vegas by Miss Teresa 

 Long, one of my students, — T, D. A, Cockerell ; May 23rd, 1901, 



Note on the Occurrence of Phyllodromia germanica, L,, in 

 Birmingham. — Towards the latter end of May last I came across two 

 female examples of this insect, one mature, and having an egg-capsule 

 protruding from the genital pouch, and the other in the later nymph- 

 stage, Tliey were among some straw in a packing-case in the 

 Botanical Laboratory of the Mason Science College (now the Uni- 

 versity), The case had been delivered from London, and contained 

 German scientific apparatus. There are consequently two possible 



