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or E. cirsiana by W. Bennett (no doubt tbe specimen recorded 

 by Marsball), accompanied by its white, shiny, transparent 

 cocoon. This cocoon is 10 mm. in length by 2^ mm., and some- 

 what attenuated at either end, the insect having evidently 

 emerged through a jagged hole at the side. There are also tWo 

 males and three females from Semasia rnfillana and a pair from 

 Depressaria ntomella, all reared by G. Elisha in July, 1883. 



Microdus nugax, Rein. * 



Introduced as British by Morley.t who tells us he captured 

 a male at Spirea ulmaria at Foxhall and has a female taken by 

 Saunders at Greenings in 1872. 



Microdus cingulipes, Nees. X 



Very similar to tumidulus but easily distinguished therefrom 

 by the black and white hind tibise and the minute radial cell. 



The only species known to Bignell, who reared it from a 

 Coleophora. Two females recorded by Marshall are still in 

 Fitch's Collection and in good condition ; one is dated August 

 11th, 1870, and the other labelled " Bugb." In these examples the 

 terebra is not as described by Nees and Marshall as long as the 

 body but only a little longer than the abdomen and metathorax. 

 Under this name in the Dale Collection are several specimens 

 which should quite certainly be referred to tumidulus. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



HuRBECS. — The following notes, which will interest entomo- 

 logists, are excerpts from ' Notes and Queries ' of June 26th, 1920 : 

 " Hurbecs. — This equivalent to the word ' caterpillars ' is probably 

 a Swiss or Roman term, which has dropped out of use. It is to be 

 found in David Martin's translation of the Bible into French, which 

 is that most commonly in use in the Cantons Vaud and Neuchatel. 

 It is also retained in the editions (revised) issued by the British and 

 Foreign Bible Society, printed in Brussels. . . . The actual 

 rendering of the original Hebrew word, according to Dr. Driver, 

 should be the larva or wingless progeny of tlie locusts. — L. G. R." 

 " Roquefort's ' Glossaire de la Langue Romane ' (Paris, 1708) gives : 

 ' Hurebec. — Chenille de Vigne ' — that is, caterpillar of the vine. — 

 Herbert-Maxwell." It would be interesting to know what particular 

 vine-feeding larva is indicated. — H. R.-B. 



Zyg^nid^ in the Chilterns.- — On July 4th I visited tbe Bucks 

 Chiiterns. There are certain localities in the hills where the usual 

 flora of the chalk formation is almost wholly wanting. The great 

 stretches of Hippocrepis comosa and HeLiantheimim chamcecistus, now 



* ' Berl. Ent. Zeits.,' vol. xi, p. 352. 



t ' Entom.' 



\ ' Mon.,' vol. 1, p. 148. 



