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Dysstroma (Cidaria) tnmcata ; Messrs. Bowman, Turner, Newman, 

 Mera, Tonge, Williams and others took part. Mr. Bowman dealt 

 particularly with the race (new) with which he and Mr. Williams 

 had met ; Mr. Turner summed up the variation of the species and its 

 differentiation from D. citrata {immanata). — Mr. Newman, a specimen 

 of the curious gynandromorph of Hyhernia marginaria taken at Chaily, 

 Sussex. — Mr. Harding, the al)errations of Acjlais urticce bred or 

 captured by him during the last forty years, with a chrome-yellow 

 banded P. atalanta and a chrome-yellow II. jacohcecB. — Mr. Tatchell, 

 a fine xanthic Epinephch titlionus from Dorset, and a living larva 

 in sitil of Trochiliuin crabroniformis in a willow stem. — Mr. Bunnett, 

 imagines and larval cases of the Psychid Taleporia tubulosa from 

 Farnborough, and the beetle Dorytomus tortrix bred from poplar 

 catkins. — Dr. Eobertson, larvae of Plusia iota. — -Hy. J. Turner, Hon. 

 Editor of Proceedings. 



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Entomologisk Tidskrift, 1918, 1919. Uppsala. 

 The complete volume of the ' Entomologisk Tidskrift ' for 1919 

 contains much interesting reading for British lepidopterists, espe- 

 cially among the " Shorter Communications and Notes." Pyrameis 

 cardui -pallida has been reported as far north as the Syd- Varanger by 

 Sandberg, and by Zetterstedt in Lapland. Herr Einar Wahlgren 

 now gives an account of a migration in 1918 (?) reaching south-west 

 Skaonia, the extreme south-west province of Sweden, with data which 

 go to prove that the wandering cardui there, as with us, produce a 

 further generation even in this northern latitude ; and his observa- 

 tions are supplemented by Herr E. Welander to the same effect in 

 the Malmo district. The latter, also, records oviposition of Ne^neobins 

 lucina on the underside of a leaf of Anemone nemorosa — possibly 

 a mistake on the part of the female, as there were plants of Prininla 

 veris growing near. Even more interesting, in view of the recent 

 discussion in the ' Entomologist ' of the distribution of Zygcena 

 {Anthrocera) exulans in Scotland {cp. op. cit., vol. lii, pp. 217-226), is 

 Herr C. O. von Porat's note on the discovery of this " decidedly 

 northern (var. vanadis, Dalm.) species " at Ternholt, near Jonkoping, 

 in the summer of 1918, a district to which I paid a flying visit at 

 the end of June, 1906 (' Entomologist,' vol. xxxix, p. 222). Jonkoping, 

 57° 45', on the south shores of Lake Vattern, is in almost precisely 

 the same latitude as Braemar, and authentic exulans, typical or var. 

 vanadis, do not appear to have been detected hitherto south of 

 Dalarnia between fat. N. 61° and 62°. In the Arctic it is not 

 necessarily an Alpine insect ; Ternholt, in Skaonia, is about 700 ft. 

 above the lake. Another paper on the " West-Arctic Element in 

 Scandinavian Butterflies " will appeal to all students of geographical 

 range. Herr Einar Wahlgren further contributes a valuable note, 

 " Uber drei Zetterstedt'sche Geometriden," discussing the specific 

 value of Acidalia annotinata, A. relictata, and Larentia decrepitata 

 respectively. In the ' Tidskrift ' for 1918, which has only recently 

 come to hand owing to war conditions, will be found a useful collection 



