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bourhood this season. I will also remark that on the 30th 

 of April I saw here the first specimen of Pieris rapce, which 

 species has been more than usually abundant, both in the spring 

 and summer broods. It was also very abundant at Kamsgate. 

 I may also remark that vegetation in our garden has been 

 particularly free from larvae of Lepidoptera and other insects 

 this season : I think this is attributable in a great measure to 

 improved gardening, i. e., carefulness in clearing away all kinds 

 of refuse, and I think the improved mode of cultivation generally 

 throughout the country, the substitution of iron fencing for 

 hedges, iron sheds, and various improvements of the same 

 description, have not been taken into consideration in accounting 

 for the diminution of Lepidoptera of late years, less shelter 

 allowing them fewer chances of escaping destruction both from 

 birds and storms. — Clara Kingsfoed ; Barton House, Canter- 

 bury, Oct. 31, 1883. 



The New(?) form in the genus Zygjena. — I think it is 

 scarcely advisable at present to raise the form of Zygcena lonicerce, 

 described by Mr. W. Prest (Entom. xvi. 273), to the distinction 

 of a named variety. As I stated at the meeting of the London 

 Entomological Society, when Mr.Prest's specimens were exhibited, 

 I bred a number of exact!}' the same form in Z . filipendulce from 

 cocoons collected at Onchan, in the Isle of Man, in June, 1873. 

 At the date of the meeting I was under the impression that I had 

 none of the specimens in my possession ; and it was not until 

 two or three weeks ago, when looking at the genus in my cabinet, 

 I found that there was one of the sj^ecimens in my series of 

 Z. Jilipendulce. It is of exactly the same colour as Mr. Prest's 

 variety, Z. eboracece, has the same washed appearance, has the 

 same narrow brown border to the hind wings, and the same 

 white (though, as in Mr. Prest's specimens, indistinctly so) cilia. 

 I remember distinctly that at the time I bred the specimens 

 many of them were crippled, and I attributed the variation 

 to a probably diseased condition of the larvae. But whatever the 

 cause may be, I have no doubt that under similar conditions the 

 same form would occur all through the genus. — Geo. T. Porritt ; 

 Huddersfield, December 1, 1883. 



Scientific Nomenclature. — Mr. Prest, in his note on 

 Zygcena lonicera (Entom. xvi. 273), does not give his authority 



