86 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
wing is pretty sure to be on the errand of ovipositing; with the 
exception, of course, of such autumnal species as do not pair 
till spring.” 
The following is the list I have compiled. I have given 
references in all cases where they seemed necessary, but have 
not troubled to give more than one reference in any case :— 
SpHINGES.—Smerinthus tilie, Entom. xxi. 273 ; Sesia sphegi- 
formis, Entom. xxv. 22; S. culiciformis, Entom. xxv. 22. 
Bomsyces.—Himydia cribrum, Entom. xxiv. 20; Heterogenea 
lumacodes (Limacodes testudo), Knagg’s ‘Guide’; Dasychira pudi- 
bunda, Knagg’s ‘Guide’; Orgyia antiqua; Bombyx rubi; B. 
quercus ; B. trifolt, Stainton’s ‘Manual’; Endromis versicolor ; 
Saturnia pavonia (carpini) ; Dicranura vinula, Entom. xxii. 281 ; 
Stauropus fagi, Entom. xx. 
Noctuz.—Miana furuncula, Entom. xxi. 232; Brephos par- 
thenias, Entom. xxiv. 123. 
GEOMETRE. —Amphidasys strataria (prodromaria), Entom. 
Record, vol. i. 
The Cedars, Enfield, March 8, 1892. 
NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 
By Ricuarp Sours. 
Toe Genus MELANIPPE. 
Tus genus was founded by Duponchel in 1830 (Hist. Nat. 
Lep. Fr. viii. pt.1. p. 277) for the reception of eight species, 
which he separated into two divisions as follows :— 
Without discoidal spot: Marginata, hastata, luctuata {not 
British], turbaria, and rivulata [= alchemillata). 
With discoidal spot: Tristata, alchemillata [= sociata], and 
rata. 
Marginata is now placed in Hubner’s genus Lomaspilis ; 
riwulata in Stephens’s Emmelesia ; and turbaria, which is synony- 
mous with turbata, Hubn., appears to have some affinities with 
Larentia olivata, but it does not concern us, as it is not British. 
The turbaria of Stephens and Wood is a form of affinitata. 
Stephens, in 1831 (Ill. Brit. Entom. Haust. iii. p. 220), 
placed galiata, tristata, subtristata (sociata), sylvaticata (rivata), 
unangulata, with picata, silaceata, fulvata, &c., in his genus Har- 
palyce ; whilst montanata and fluctuata, preceded by olivata and 
followed by propugnata, were included by him in Cidaria, and 
procellata in Xerene; hasiata being the only representative of 
Melanippe in his arrangement. 
Of the five remaining species of the eight originally included 
