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arcuosa, a conclusion with which, I think, you will agree. With regard to 
Mr. Barrett’s remarks, which appeared in your last issue, every one must 
agree that local lists should be subject to extremely close scrutiny ; but I 
cannot quite agree with the whole force of his remark as to “ how im- 
probable the statement is,” 7. ¢., that the insect in question should occur in 
Staffordshire. New insects are constantly turning up in unexpected places, 
and the ‘‘ mosses” that are so common in this neighbourhood are probably 
remains of glacially-formed lakes that have filled up by the growth of 
vegetation, abound in marsh plants, and have, many of them, never been 
drained or much interfered with by man since their formation. I suppose 
the locality in which, when with Mr. Daltry, I took Deiopeia pulchella in 
June, would be about the last place in the country where we would expect 
to find it; and yet of that capture there can be no doubt. — F. C. Woop- 
FORDE ; Market Drayton, Sept. 21, 1892. 
[The specimen is certainly a worn male of Miana arcuosa, and it may 
be added that this is not the first time that examples of arcuosa, in 
indifferent condition, have been confounded with Tapinostola extrema, 
Hiibner. With regard to the last-named insect, there is great difference 
of opinion among entomologists as to its proper status. Some are inclined 
to think that it is distinct from Guenée’s concolor. Others contend that 
neither extrema nor concolor are entitled to rank as species; these argue 
that Hiibner’s figure 412 (extrema) badly represents T. bondit, Knaggs, and 
that concolor is only a local form of T. fulva. A third, and perhaps largest, 
section admit concolor to be synonymous with extrema, but regard the latter 
as perfectly distinct from 7’. bondii or T. fulva.—Ep.] 
Sucar-caANE Borrers.—The ‘ Kew Bulletin’ for July and August con- 
tains an important paper on insects injurious to the sugar-cane crops in 
the West Indies, but dealing more particularly with the “ Shot-borer ” 
(Xyleborus perforans). The author, Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, F.E.S., 
Lecturer on Entomology at Cooper’s Hill, quotes and comments upon the 
observations and opinions of previous writers on the subject, and then pro- 
ceeds to state his own views and conclusions. The Xyleborus, together 
with the ‘“ Weevil Borer” (Sphenophorus sacchari) and the * Moth Borer ” 
(Chilo saccharalis), are figured on the plate which accompanies the paper. 
ARGYNNIS PAPHIA, ABERRATION.—During a week’s stay in the New 
Forest, Mr. J. H. Carpenter did good work with A. paphia. Among 
the white-spotted forms he captured is a very remarkable female, taken 
July 23rd last, which he has placed in my hands for description. The 
primaries have each two large white blotches ; both are spreading, with 
white centres and blending into straw-yellow; the one occupying the 
- centre of the wing surrounds the black markings, and is tinged with pale 
olive-green over the basal area; the other, which is subapical, is very white 
aud clearly defined. The secondaries exhibit curious coloration, having a 
very large spreading pearly green blotch, reaching from the submarginal 
series of spots nearly to the base, the colouring of the blotch approaching 
that of var. valesina, but considerably lighter, especially on the right wing, 
having the outer and central portion whitish; some of the spots forming 
the median band are brown instead of the usual deep black. The under 
surface has the colouring aud markings of the variation precisely similar to 
the upper surface. I captured a female ou the 17th July, near the same 
part of the Forest, with the secondaries exhibiting almost the same 
Variation in colour, but not quite so clear and white. Another of 
