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extensively attacked ; it seemed as if the air would be filled with 

 white butterflies this spring, but to my surprise they were nearly 

 all ichneumoned ; certainly not one-fifth, perhaps not one-tenth 

 escaped, the walls, railings, and even trees, were studded with the 

 little yellow or white bunches of Ichneumon clirysalids." I 

 suppose by " they " Mr. Barrett meant the autumnal larvse. — 

 —J. W. Tutt; Westcombe Park, S.E., October 6, 1887. 



Callimorpha HERA, &c. : Correction. — An error has occurred 

 (Entom. 374 and 281) which I should like to rectify. I did not 

 stay at Tenby as stated, but at Saundersfoot, four miles from 

 Tenby. I went from there on August 13th to South Devon, in 

 search of C. hera, and did not take the Noctuse mentioned until 

 after my return to Saundersfoot on August 20th. — J. Jager; 

 180, Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, W., October 18, 1887. 



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Entomological Society of London. — October 5, 1887. Dr. 

 Sharp, President, in the chair. Mr. Jacoby exhibited a specimen 

 of Ajihtlionoicles heccai'ii, Jac, a species of Haltica having a long 

 spine on the posterior femora. He also exhibited a specimen of 

 Rhagiosoma madagascariensis, and remarked that it had the 

 appearance of a Longicorn. Mr. Stevens exhibited a very dark 

 specimen of Cramhus perlellus from the Hebrides, which its 

 captor supposed to be a new species. Mr. Porritt remarked that 

 this brown form of Cramhus perlellus occurred at Hartlepool with 

 the ordinary typical form of the species, and was there regarded 

 as only a variety of it. Mr. Slater exhibited a specimen of 

 Gonepteryx cleopiatra, which was stated to have been taken in the 

 north of Scotland. Mr. Jenner Weir remarked that althougli 

 the genus Ilhamnus — to which the food-plant of the species 

 belonged — was not a native of Scotland, some species had been 

 introduced, and were cultivated in gardens. Mr. South exhibited 

 an interesting series of about 150 specimens of Boarmia re- 

 pandata, bred in 187 G, and during the present year, from larv-se 

 collected on bilberry in the neiglibourhood of Lynmouth, North 

 Devon. The series included strongly marked examples of the 

 typical form, extreme forms of the var. conversaria, Hiib., a 

 form intermediate between the type and the variety last named. 



