106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



E. Lanestris. — Last year I reared a considerable nnmber 

 of larvae of Lanesiris. As yet only three images have 

 emerged. The pupae are all healthy, and as transparent- 

 looking about the wing-cases as they were at first. It seems 

 as if they were going to pass a second winter in the pupa 

 state. Is this a common thing for them to do ? — \_Rev.'] A. C. 

 Hervey. 



It is not uncommon. 



Grease on Lepidopiera. — Can you kindly inform me 

 through the 'Entomologist' if there is any effectual means of 

 checking and removing this ? Some of my own specimens 

 have become so saturated that 1 have had to remove them 

 from the cabinet. The evil always seems to me to attack the 

 more valuable insects. My cabinet is built of teak, and I can 

 discover no traces of resin or damp. — C. Lovekin ; 10, 

 Darnley Road, Noiting Hill. 



I believe the best way to remove grease is by soaking the 

 specimens thoroughly in benzole, and then drying them as 

 thoroughly : the operation often requires repetition. Cabinets 

 should be made only of mahogany. I often see cheap 

 cabinets advertised, but I consider a cheap cabinet the most 

 expensive luxury in which an entomologist can possibly 

 indulge. 



Halopliila prasinana and hicolorana : NeiomarCs Briiish 

 Bulterjlies. — (1) I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in 

 thus addressing you; but being in possession of a copy of 

 your very excellent work on Moths, and being unable to find 

 a description therein of the green and scarce green-silver 

 lines, 1 thought that perhaps they were unintentionally 

 omitted. (2) 1 shall feel much obliged if you will inform me, 

 at your leisure, if your description of Butterllies, uniform 

 with the Moths, is ready, and price. — Edward Sutton; 134, 

 Falmouth Road, New Kent Road. 



(1) These two moths, llylophila prasinana and H. bicolo- 

 rana of Staudinger's Catalogue (2nd ed. p. 51), have puzzled 

 and perplexed entomologists more than any others. Stau- 

 dinger has placed them in company with Sarrothripa 

 undulana and Halias Clorana, at the head of the Bombyces, 

 immediately after the Sphinges, which terminate with 

 Zygaena and Naclia. In Doubleday's ' Synonymic Cata- 

 logue' we find the genus in question removed altogether 



