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pruniana, particularly silky in appearance, with white fore 

 wings delicately mottled with pale grey ; also a Scoparia having 

 white fore wings, with a dark brown central fascia on each. 

 In Kent I have also taken a fair series of E. curvistrigana and 

 some fine Catoptria eeniulana from golden rod. — A. B. Farn. 



Abundance of Micro-Lepidoptera. — The present dry and 

 warm season has been very favourable to the development of the 

 Micro-Lepidoptera, and some species have been more numerous 

 than for many years past. I have reared a rather large series of 

 both Coleophora maritimella and C. artemisiella from larvae 

 obtained on the Essex coast, and a few C. therinella ; also a large 

 series of C. argentulella and about a score of C. inflatclla from 

 larvae collected in Surrey ; and C. genistcecolella from larvae on 

 Genista anglica in Epping Forest. The cases of C. liitipcnnella 

 on the oak were in greater numbers than I ever saw them before. 

 — William Machin ; 29, Carlton Road, Carlton Square, E., 

 August 13, 1884. 



The Blue Beetle in Essex.— This destructive beetle— the 

 true Phcedon cochlearicv , Fabr. — has made its appearance, I believe 

 for the first time, on the mustard crops in our Essex marshes. It 

 has completely cleared part of a crop on Mr. John Page's Nazewick 

 farm on Foulness Island, and is very destructive on a twenty-seven 

 acre marsh of Mr. J. T. Gale's, on Hollywell, on the other side 

 of the Crouch. Mr. Page's seed came from Cambridgeshire and 

 he blames this for the introduction of the pest ; its destructive 

 habits there and elsewhere have lately been referred to (Entom. 

 xiv. 44, 187, 230, 294; xv. 23, 213). — Edward A. Fitch; 

 Maldon, August 23, 1884. 



REVIEW. 



' The Entomologist ' Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera. 

 Compiled in conformity with the law of priority. By 

 Richard South. 1884. 



I have to thank the publishers of the ' Entomologist ' for 

 sending me a copy of this list, and I beg to congratulate the 

 compiler upon the successful completion of his work. 



Doubleday's list has long been out of print, and Staudinger 

 and Wocke's ' Catalog ' had rendered it obsolete. For the 



