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crisp snow and hard ice. I might add that it froze hard all day 

 yesterday, as well as in the evening, although the sky was dull and 

 overcast for the first time for some days. — H. D. Fobd ; Thursby 

 Vicarage,[Carlisle. 



Yet another Food-plant of Torteix peonubana. — On August 

 26th last I noticed that the leaves of plants of red valerian {Cen- 

 trantlms rnher] growing on the banks beside the parade were rolled 

 as by a Tortrix larva. On searching these habitations I found many 

 untenanted or occupied by an earwig, but I succeeded in finding 

 three that contained Tortrix larvae. These I took home and placed 

 in a glass jar with fresh sprigs of the valerian, to which the larvae 

 at once took 'and ate ravenously and in*^ which they eventually 

 pupated, three specimens of Tortrix pronubaria ultimately coming 

 forth during the last week in September. — R. Adkin ; Eastbourne, 

 February, 1917. 



ScoPAEiA PALLIDA, ETC. — It may help Mr. Thurnall in his search 

 for the larva of this insect to know that the genitalia at once sepa- 

 rates it from cembrcB, and, indeed, it cannot be included in the same 

 genus. The Scoparias divide naturally into two groups by the 

 genitalia, and I believe as far as is known the larval habits of the two 

 groups are different. CembrcB belongs to the group Scoparia and 

 includes dubitalis, ainbigtialis, uhnella, and basistrigalis, all of which 

 I understand, are root feeders. Pallida belongs to the group Eudoria, 

 which includes viurana, truncicollella, freqiientella, phceoletica, alpina, 

 a7igustea, lineola, and resinea. Cratcegella being an offshoot from 

 the Eudoria group, these, I understand, mostly are moss and lichen 

 feeders. The Scopai"ias have the sacculus developed and projecting 

 from the valva and strong cornuti. The Eudoreas have no projecting 

 sacculus and no cornuti. From the ovipositer of the females of this 

 last group the egg is laid deeply in the food-plant that is at the 

 junction of the leaf to the stem or some other inaccessible place. In 

 the former group I should expect to find the egg laid on the surface 

 of the food-plant. Unfortunately I have only the mounts of a few 

 species of females by me in my collection so cannot definitely give 

 the oviposition of E. pallida.— F. N. Pieece ; 1, The Elms, Dingle, 

 Liverpool, February 8th, 1917. 



Pyrambis caedui and Vanessa io at Beighton. — On February 

 12th last a fine specimen of Pyrameis cardtii was seen resting on a 

 wall in Stanford Avenue, Brighton, basking in the sun. The day in 

 question was very fine, and the wall was sheltered from a keen south- 

 east breeze. On February 17th a live female Vanessa io was brought 

 to me and has resumed hibernation. It was found flying in a sunny 

 bedroom in Waldegrave Eoad, Brighton. — F. G. S. Beamwell ; 

 " Coniston," 1, Dyke Road^Drive, Brighton. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — The Annual Meeting was 

 held on Wednesday, January nth, 1917. — Commander J. J. Walker, 

 M.A., E.N., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — No othT names 



