98 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Explanation of Plate V. 



FIG. 



1. Cossus cossus, First larval stage, dorsal aspect of thorax, and first 



abdominal segments, X 80. 



2. „ „ ,, ,, ,, mesothorax laterally, x 80. 



3. ,, „ ,, ,, ,, third abdominal segment, x 80. 



4. „ ,, Anterior trapezoidal third abdominal seta, x 400. 



5. Zeuzera pyrini, Adult larva, mesothorax, enlarged. 



6. ,. „ „ ,, third abdominal segment, enlarged. 



7. Cossus cossus, Imaginal wing neuration, nat. size. 



8. Culama exjjressa, „ „ „ enlarged, 



9. „ „ Fore wing anal nervure about one-third from base, 



showing enclosed vein and subsidiary veins 

 which ramify tlirough the wings, X 400. 



10. „ „ 3" antennal segment, x 200, 



11. „ „ ? » „ X 400. 



12. PhraijinatcBcina anmdinis, ^ transitional antennal segment, X 400. 



13. Cossus cossus, 3 transitional antennal segment, laterally, x 80. 



14. „ „ ^ „ „ „ transverse, x 80. 



15. Priono.vystus roblnicB $ transitional antennal segment, X 200. 



Note. — Fig. 8 has really somewhat stouter nervures than should be 

 the case. Tortricids are very fine, and difficult to examine there- 

 fore ; also the two inner anal nervures of the hind wings should 

 be a little wider spaced. 



CUKRENT NOTES. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



(Continued from p. 73.) 



F. M. Webster concludes (1) that "Lucrative prices for dairy 

 products stimulate dairying ; this increases the area of timothy 

 meadows, and tends to their continuance for a series of con- 

 secutive years. This increases the abundance of" Blissus leii- 

 cojiterus [Rhynchota] and Sjjhenojjhorus parvulus | Coleoptera] , 

 " and consequently the magnitude of their ravages." The same 

 author deals (2) with the diffusion of North American insects, 

 principally Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. L. Bruner makes a 

 powerful plea (3) for the protection of birds, not only from a 

 humane point of view, but as a contribution to economic en- 

 tomology. He calculates that the estimated 75 millions of birds 

 in Nebraska require, at a very low estimate, 1875 millions of 

 insects for each day's rations — that is, roughly, 15,625 bushels of 

 insects. " Birds, like all other animals, feed upon that food which 



