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who wish to change a name like teucrii, which every British entomologist 

 knows and understands, for a name which, to say the least of it, is utterly 

 forgotten, is very questionable ; and if adopted on the grounds brought 

 forward may at any time have to be changed again if a named specimen of 

 any other entomologist, British or continental, subsequent to De Villers, 

 turned up, for there is no reason why Haworth's opinion alone should be 

 accepted as final, — C. A. Briggs ; 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, April 15, 1889. 



BuTALis LAMiNELLA IN Kent, — On looking through my series of 

 Butalis fuscocuprella recently, I found four specimens of B. laminella among 

 specimens captured at Cuxton in Kent. It will be remembered that this 

 species was recently added to the British fauna by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. 



— J. W. TUTT. 



SiREx IN North Wales. — A year or two ago I caught a fine female 

 specimen of Sirex gigas flying round a juniper in the garden. They are not 

 uncommon round here, and several trees have been injured by the larvae. — 

 Hilda G. Naylor ; BryuUywarch Hall, Kerry, Montgomeryshire. 



Destruction by Anobium paniceum, L. — During March last I dis- 

 covered in my warehouse quite a colony of beetles, which had taken up their 

 quarters in a box containing packets of Dr. Jenuer's Food for Infants. The 

 packets were completely riddled through and through, and the sides of the 

 wooden box were grooved out, as if done with a very small chisel and auger, 

 where the larvae of the beetles had made their galleries. Both larvae and 

 beetles could be seen in hundreds ; in fact all stages of the insect were 

 present. Not being acquainted with its name, I sent a few by post to Mr. 

 G. A. Lewcock, who kindly replied as follows: — " The beetles yon sent are 

 named Anoh'mm paniceum, generally a very destructive species in its habits, 

 particularly when allowed to remain undisturbed for some time in one 

 habitat, as it breeds rapidly, and does not confine itself to any one class of 

 goods. Very few articles of produce seem to come amiss as food, for I have 

 seen drawers of whole ginger literally crowded with the beetles ; and I have 

 no doubt that Dr. Jeuner's Food is admirably suited to the requirements of 

 the larvae, as instanced by your fine specimens." — J. A. Clark; 48, The 

 Broadway, London Fields, N.E. 



The Cold Summer of 1888, and Double-brooded Moths. — It 

 seems probable that the cold summer of last year will have left its mark 

 on many of the insects which will emerge this year, and especially on the 

 double-brooded moths, such as species of the genus Selenia ; and it would 

 be interesting to know whether the experience of collectors in any way 

 bears this out. To my knowledge, species that would in ordinary seasons 

 have been all double-brooded, had but a single brood in some cases last 

 year ; and when there was a double brood the larvae of the second one 

 suff'ered greatly in cases which fell under my observation, in numbers, 

 vigour, and size, from the adverse influences to which they were exposed. 

 Those Selenia I have bred — all of which proceed from the second brood — 

 have been comparatively few in number, small in size, and with a large 

 proportion of deformities. I am inclined to think that few of the second 

 brood will have survived, and that what moths are taken this year will 

 mostly be the immediate offspring of parents which laid their eggs last 

 spring. They ought, therefore, — unless from other causes, which may be 



