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usual and somewhat suffused at the edges. The central blotch 

 narrowed to a thin neck on the costa, then widening into a 

 kidney-shaped blotch narrowed in the middle and flattened at 

 the end, somewhat suffused. The wavy lines are somewhat 

 thicker and more distinct than usual. Hind wings rather dark. 

 4. Coremia fernigata. — Female taken at Throwleigh (Dart- 

 moor) in August, 1901. This specimen, taken at a height of 

 nearly 1,000 feet, shows distinct traces of melanism. The 

 central band of the forewings is blackish, with distinct black 

 edges on either side, rather suffused. The hind wings blackish 

 from the middle to the base, with very few wavy lines. The 

 photo shows the black marking on the hind wings fairly well, 

 and also the black edgings to the central band on the fore wings. 



CURRENT NOTES. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



(Continued from vol. xxxvi. p. 315.) 



These notes are intended, not only to afford references to 

 recently published monographs, revisions, &c., but to call atten- 

 tion to stray notices which might otherwise be long overlooked. 



Rudolph. I. Geare, 1902 : " A list of the Publications of the 

 United States National Museum" (Bui. U.S. Nat. Mus. 51, pp. 

 1-168 & i-vii). This useful annotated catalogue enumerates 21 

 annual reports, containing 122 papers, 23 volumes of proceedings 

 (embracing 1240 papers, 50 bulletins, 4 special bulletins), and 50 

 circulars, the whole comprising (on a rough calculation) 52,000 

 pages, 3800 plates, and 5700 text-figures, a magnificent result 

 for a quarter of a century. 



T. D. A. Cockerell, 1903 : "Two Orchids from New Mexico" 

 (Torreya iii., pp. 139-140). The Aphid Macrosiphmn corallorhizce, 

 Cockerell, is mentioned as occurring on CoraLlorhiza vi'eelandii, 

 Rydberg. 



T. D. A. Cockerell, 1903 : " New Bees from Southern Cali- 

 fornia and other records " (Bui. South. Calif. Ac. Sci. ii., pp. 

 84-5). Two new species of the bee-genus Halictiis, and a new, 

 almost black var. of the Cimicid Murgantia histrionica are de- 

 scribed, with locality notes on some Diptera, Rhynchota, and 

 Crustacea. 



E. G. LoDEMAN, 1902 : "The Spraying of Plants" (The Mac- 

 millan Co., New York, pp. i-xvii & 1-399, text-figs. 1-92, and 

 frontispiece (portrait of Millardet) ). This little work, now re- 

 printed four times, is invaluable to the horticulturist and to 

 everyone interested in economic entomology. The first chapter 



