180 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Having captured the insects, a killing-bottle is our next 

 thought for those which we do not wish to retain for the 

 aquarium. The most convenient, despite its many defects, is 

 the "cyanide" bottle. The floor of the bottle should be furnished 

 with a thick closely cut pad of blotting-paper, and the sides 

 should be similarly provided. 



The captures may, if preferred, be brought home alive and 

 then killed by momentary immersion in boiling water. 



The specimens intended for the aquarium should not be 

 brought home in jars full of water, but should be packed, 

 sufficiently tightly, with plenty of weed in small tin boxes 

 (without added water), when they will travel very well for 

 moderate distances. 



(To be continued.) 



SOME CHANGES in the NOMENCLATURE and ARRANGE- 

 MENT of BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA. 



(Continued from p. 1G2.) 



He pi alice. 



Hampson places this family between Psychidne and Drepanu- 

 lidse, but remarks in a footnote that if the Heterocera could be 

 arranged in a linear series, the Hepialidse would immediately 

 precede the Micropterygidae ; and in this he is in agreement with 

 Meyrick, who so places the family in his division Micropterygina. 

 In Kirby 's arrangement it is the last family included in ' Sphinges 

 and Bombyces.' 



Hepialus velleda, Hiibn. — Kirby sinks velleda as a synonym 

 of II . fusconebulosus, Retz. (Gen. Spec. Ins. p. 44 (1783) ). 



Cossid^; (ZEuzERiDiE, Kirby). 



Hampson states that in a linear arrangement this family 

 would follow the Alavona section of the Tineidse. 



Cossus ligniperda, Fabr. — Kirby retains the specific name 

 cossus, Linn., for this species, and gives it as the type of Try- 

 panus, Ramb., Cat. Lep. And. ii. p. 326 (1866). Meyrick adopts 

 this, and places the family, Trypanidae, at the end of his division 



TORTRICINA. 



Macrogaster castane.ze, Hiibn. — Both Kirby and Hampson 

 adopt the genus Phragmatcecia, Newm., for this species, although 

 it is later than Macrogaster, Dup. ; but the latter name had been 

 previously used. Meyrick agrees in this, but places the family 

 Zeuzeridao in his division Psychina. 



