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the rocks, well up on the hills, all of the light Yorkshire form.— 
W. G. Cuurren; Burnley. 
Nore on DIANTH@CIA CARPOPHAGA.—On the East Coast between 
Harwich and Aldeburgh I found ova of Dianthecia carpophaga 
on Silene maritima during June, 1915. They duly turned to 
pupe, and I thought they intended to lie over as they did not 
show any signs of emergence until July-August this year. The last 
moth appeared on August 29th. The imagines are all of the light- 
coloured form similar to the Sussex and Kent coast races, except 
one which approaches the inland form. They passed most of their 
existence in an old tin. They were the only insects I had time to 
observe. I should be interested to know if this form has previously 
been recorded from Suffolk—H. M. Epretsren; C.P.O., R.N.A.A.S. 
Notes ON THE Lire-HISTORY AND VARIATION OF EHuCHLOE 
CARDAMINES.—Under this title an elaborate paper by Harold B. 
Williams, LL.D., appears in the recently published ‘Transactions 
of the London Natural History Society for 1915.’ One is apt to 
regard H. cardamines as a species little prone to aberration, so that 
it may occasion some surprise to learn that, apart from geographical 
races, there are about two dozen named forms. Ten of these refer 
to the male sex only, four to the female sex, whilst in the remaining 
ten the phase of variation is common to both sexes. Several of 
these forms are found in our islands. Of the eleven local races 
two are credited to the British Isles; these are hibernica, Williams, 
and britannica, Verity. Some twenty-five instances of gynandro- 
morphism are mentioned with details, and reference to record cited. 
Altogether the paper is a valuable contribution to the literature of 
a fascinating subject,—R. S. 
‘COLEOPTERA ILLUSTRATA.”’—We have received the first number 
of vol. i of a work published under the above title by Mr. Howard 
Notman. Fifty species of Carabidee are here represented, each 
figure on a separate plate, and all figures uniform in size. The 
name of the species represented appears on the plate, also sex, size, 
and distribution are mentioned. There is an index to genera and 
subgenera, and one to species and subspecies, but there is no 
preface, introduction, or indeed anything in the way of letterpress 
other than that adverted to. The numbers are published at one 
dollar each, and may be had from the Author, 136, Joralemon Street, 
Brooklyn, N.Y.—R. 8. 
Gatt Miners or Stare or New Yorx.—A third part of “A 
Study of Gall Midges” is published as an Appendix to the 380th 
Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and other Insects 
of the State of New York (‘Museum Bulletin’ 180, January, 1916). 
This instalment, which deals with the Tribes Itonididz and 
Oligotrophiariza comprises 162 pages of letterpress with figures in 
the text, and 18 plates.—R. S. 
DarHnis (CH#ROCAMPA) NERIT AT Forkestone,—I took a 
specimen of C. nerit on the Leas undercliff at Folkestone on 
August 30th. It was resting on the trunk of a small poplar. With 
the exception of a small amount of fringe missing the insect is in 
very fine condition —G. B. Oniver; Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. 
