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defined, and those on the hind wings with the spots very large and 

 triangular, the one nearest the angle containing a blue scale. There 

 is also a large patch of blue scales near the centre of the left hind 

 wing. This year I have bred two with the bands bright orange- 

 vermilion and one in which they are ochreous-yellow, this being the 

 most striking colour variation that I have ever seen. I have found 

 that any colour variation is usually the other way towards carmine, 

 and any tendency towards yellow appears to be extremely rare. — 

 Martin J. Harding; Oakdene, Church Stretton, November 17th, 

 1915. 



Names of the British Species op Chloroperla. — With refer- 

 ence to my notes in ' The Entomologist ' of March, 1913, on two 

 British species of Chloroperla, it may be well to state that I subse- 

 quently submitted to Professor Klupalek specimens of the insect for 

 which the name of C. venosa was provisionally used, and discussed 

 with him the nomenclature employed in the ' Siisswasser-fauna 

 Deutschlands.' As a result, and without going into details at 

 present, it seems to me that our British insect should be called 

 G. griseipeymis, Pict. As I have already used the latter name in 

 correspondence, I think it is desirable to publish this short note to 

 prevent misunderstanding. — Kenneth J. Morton ; 13, Blackford 

 Eoad, Edinburgh, November 1st, 1915. 



Epermenia (Chauliodus) illigerella, Hb., in Gloucester- 

 shire. — "When searching for larvae of Earias chlorcma in an osier 

 bed near Gloucester on September 6th last I took two specimens of 

 Epermenia illigerella, which does not appear to have been recorded 

 from this county before. Several more specimens were observed, 

 but by September 17th they were worn. They were flying on calm 

 evenings between 6 and 7 p.m., and frequently settled on the osier 

 and buckthorn leaves. It is curious that such a striking Tinea should 

 have hitherto escaped observation in this district. I have to thank 

 Mr. Edward Meyrick, F.R.S., F.E.S., for confirming the identity of 

 this species. — C. Granville Clutterbuck, F.E.S. ; 23, Heathville 

 Eoad, Gloucester, November 14th, 1915. 



Echinomyia grossa, L., and other Diptera in Cornwall and 

 Devon. — After collecting Diptera for over twenty years in Devon 

 and Cornwall, I have at last found a spot where E. grossa, the 

 largest British dipteron, is plentiful. In a marshy valley near the 

 sea, about three miles from Tintagel, North Cornwall, I saw as many 

 as twenty on August 19th and 20th this year. On August 23rd I 

 saw one flying quite near King Arthur's Castle at Tintagel. I have 

 three specimens, ex coll. Bignell (who probably got them from Kev. 

 T. A. Marshall), labelled as follows : — " Cornworthy, Devon, Septem- 

 ber, 1888 ; Botus Fleming, E. Cornwall, 1890 ; Salcombe, S. Devon, 

 July, 1892." The fable of the dog and the shadow was exemplified 

 when on attempting to get a grossa and a Volucella inanis, L., with 

 one stroke of the net and missed both ! I have not seen or taken 

 inanis since 1906, when I took a fine pair at Bovey. I took also 

 with the grossa several Fabricia ferox, L. This is uncommon here; 

 I have only taken them previously at Bovey, also in 1906. Echino- 



