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ment of the scattered blackish scales on the hind wing below is 

 identical with what is seen in most Terias. The upperside 

 pattern and the yellow underside of the hind wing points to the 

 specimen being a dwarf ? example of Terias brigittaf. zoe, Hopff. 



The specimen has lost its legs and antennae, the basal seg- 

 ment of the latter alone remaining, and these agree with the 

 same part in the antennae of Terias. 



Type in collection, Joicey. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Styringomyia Fossil in England. — The remarkable Tipulid 

 genus Styringomyia was first found in Baltic amber, and was for 

 many years supposed to be extinct. It was later determined that 

 rather numerous species were still living in tropical countries, widely 

 scattered over the world. In ' Proc. U.S. National Museum,' vol. 52 

 (1917), p. 377, I described a supposed new genus Mesovujites, con- 

 sidered to be related to Mythicomyia, from the Oligocene of Gurnet 

 Bay, Isle of Wight. The specimen consists of a wing, lacking the 

 base. Mr. Chas. P. Alexander now writes, pointing out that this 

 fossil has all the characters of Styringomyia, and, after reconsidering 

 the whole subject in the light of his suggestion, I feel convinced that 

 he is right. It is singular that a similar type of venation should be 

 so nearly duplicates in entirely different families, but, in spite of this, 

 I think the fossil shows enough to confirm the new reference, and the 

 species will therefore stand as Styringomyia concinna. 



In the paper cited, p. 373, Riphidia should of course be Bhipidia. 

 This is another Tipulid {Bhipidia brodiei) from Gurnet Bay. — 



T. D. A. COCKEEELL. 



Ehyacionia (Eetinia) puedeyi, Duerant, at Lewisham. — On 

 August 8th, 1907, I took from a fence in this neighbourhood beneath 

 the overhanging branches of some Austrian pine trees {Finns laricio 

 V. nigricans) a Tortrix that appeared to be unfamiliar to me. On 

 August 6th, 1908, another was captured, and on July 19th and 26th 

 yet another one on each day, and I missed two or three others, for 

 they were very restless. I have more than once shifted these speci- 

 mens in my cabinet, but they never appeared to agree with any 

 species that I had there, and recently, on pointing them out to a 

 friend, he remarked, I think half in jest, that they might be Bhyacionia 

 purdeyi. However, I turned up the original description of that 

 species, and it appeared to fit my specimens so well that I submitted 

 them to Mr. Durrant, who pronounced them to be undoubtedly 

 referable to that species. — Eobert Adkin ; Lewisham, April, 1917. 



Cyanieis aegiolus, and Plusia moneta in Middlesex. — The 

 abundance of Gyaniris argiolus in the Metropolitan area this year is 

 remarkable. Until 1901 I do not remember to have seen a single 

 specimen on the wing in the garden here, though occasional observa- 

 tions were made by my friend Mr. C. E. Peers, when living, before 

 that date, at the Eectory, Harrow Weald. But from that time 

 onwards, as elsewhere, and throughout the neighbourhood, it has 



