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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
QUERY RESPECTING PLUSIA CHRYSON (ORICHALCEA).—Does ‘ o71- 
chalcea’”’ ever pupate in the autumn? Last October I beat two 
large and unmistakably Plusiid larve on H. cannabinum in the 
locality where I expected to find orichalcea, and to my surprise both 
went down in late October. I cannot believe that they are P. gamma 
or P. chrysitis CHARLES MEtLows; The College, Bishop’s Stortford. 
DeRMATOBIA IN GuaTEMALA.—In February, 1912, at Quirigua, 
Guatemala, my wife heard an Indian screaming with pain, and found 
that there was a dipterous larva under the skin of his arm. The 
larva was extracted, and I find that it agrees exactly with descrip- 
tions and figures of Dermatobia, especially fig. 11, a, in ‘ Insect Life,’ 
September, 1888, p. 80. Authors have referred to two species of 
Dermatobia, but Blanchard (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixv., 1896) goes 
into the matter at great length, and shows that the records all 
apparently refer to a single species, D. cyaniventris (Macq.).— 
T. D. A. CocKERELL. 
Stomoxys at A Hien Axutitupe.— On August 28th, 1913, I 
collected Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) in a cabin at timber-line, 11,200- 
11,300 ft., on the Long’s Peak trail, Colorado. At same time and 
place I also obtained Phormia terre-nove (Mcq.), Musca domestica, 
L., and Allograpta obliqua, Say—T. D. A. CockERELL. 
RETARDED EMERGENCE OF PARARGE EGERIA.—With reference to 
Major Robertson’s interesting notes in the March number of the 
‘Entomologist,’ I have been looking up my diary, and find that, 
whilst pupz digging under an elm on October 9th, 1909, I found a 
charming green pupa suspended to a grass stem. Feeling satisfied 
that it was rather unusual to find such a pupa during the winter 
months, I watched it very carefully through the following months, 
and was very surprised to see a fine male specimen of P. egerta had 
emerged on May 1st, 1910.—W. W. Maominuan; Woodville, Castle 
Cary, Somerset, March 9th, 1914. 
TROPICAL GRASSHOPPERS (PHANEROPTERIDZ) IN ENGLAND. — A 
pair of grasshoppers taken alive in a hothouse near Felixstowe were 
sent me in December by a correspondent. Some orchids from India 
had recently been placed there. The insects belong to the Phanero- 
pteride, but are not of the genus Phaneroptera. They lack the spine 
on the anterior coxe, and are larger than either falcata or quadri- 
punctata. The male has a beautiful reddish-brown border to the 
elytra, wing-tips, and centre of pronotum. The female is much 
larger and of a brilliant green, including the wing-tips. I have 
requested my correspondent to watch for nymphs later in case the 
pair bred.—C. W. Bracken ; 5, Carfax Terrace, Plymouth. 
A VARIETY OF PyraLis costTaLis.—In July, 1906, I took, at sugar, 
a very remarkable variety of this pretty little species. The bright 
rosy grey of the wings is replaced by deep maroon, or plum colour, 
there are no signs of any transverse lines across the fore wings, and 
