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[What do these paragraphs mean ? The truly Englisli- 

 boy propensity of killing gives a vrnisemblaiwe to the first 

 story (for every English boy, nntil humanized by Entomo- 

 logy, kills or hurts whatever he ean) ; but u hat is the fireHy 

 of the tropics found at Caterhaui ? Can any of n)y corre- 

 spondents throw light on this? even the glimmer of a glow- 

 worm would be acceptable. — E. Newman.^ 



Varieties of Zyga'nn FilipendidcB and I.npenna tes,tacea. 

 — ■! have bred an orange variety of Z. Filipendulae, and 

 another having one under wing orange and tl)e other red : 

 are these unusual ? I also took at sugar a black variety of 

 L. testacea in beautiful condition. — W. Jagger ; St. Ives, 

 Hunts, July 20, 1809. 



Hadena assimilis in Inverness-shire. — On the 30lh of 

 June last 1 took a specimen of the above moth, on the 10th 

 instant another, and on tlie 11th instant a thirrl, all at sugar, 

 in Inverness-shire. — Nicholas Cooke; Spring View, Liscard, 

 July 16, 1869. 



O.vyplilus Britanniodactylus, a new Plume. — At a meeting 

 of the Northern Entomological Society, held on the 22nd of 

 May, Mr. Gregson exhibited carefully-executed drawings 

 of the larva and imago of many species of Pterophorina, 

 made by himself from living specimens, including drawings, 

 in all its stages, of a new plume, discovered by him in the 

 larval state in Wales, hybernaling on Teucrium Scorodonia, 

 in March, when he was searching ibr hybernating larvae of 

 P. osteodactylus, where the g(dden rod grows amongst the 

 wood sage; and he read the following description of the new 

 species of plume, under the nau)e of Oxyptilus Britanniodac- 

 tylus alar: — Expanse six to seven lines; antennae annu- 

 lated with brown and gray ; head and thorax rich fuscous- 

 brown ; abdomen bronze-brown, with raised light scales on 

 each segment ; anterior wings rather broad, fuscous-brown, 

 divided into five equal parts by four oblique markings — the 

 first part formed by a dark mark on the first third of the 

 costa, and a light mark on the inner margin ; the next by a 

 light mark on the middle having a cuneiform dark dash 

 inside, and a dark dot or blotch on the inner-margin cilia 

 having a light edge ; the third by a light silvery oblique 

 striga across the wing, terminating in front of the second 

 dot on the inner cilia ; and the last by a silvery streak on the 



