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Observations. — This species can easily be told by the great 

 length of the female palpi. I know of nothing approaching it. 

 The pale apical abdominal spots often spread out to form nearly 

 complete bands. The type sent over does not show the pale 

 scaled line up to the base of the wing on the mesothorax, as Dr. 

 Leicester describes ; probably the specimen has been slightly 

 rubbed.— (F. V. T.) 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



National Collection op British Lepidoptera. — Mr. William M. 

 Christy, of Watergate, Emsworth, Hants, has presented a very useful 

 assortment of Lepidoptera from the Woodforde Collection. All the 

 specimens are in fine condition, and have full data attached. He has 

 also given a nice series of Boannia consortaria, reared from Sussex 

 larvae, and an exceedingly interesting series of Melanippe galiata, bred 

 from ova deposited by a female specimen taken at Arundel. These 

 latter have the ground colour unusually white, and the band is black. 



Earwig attacked by Acari. — Near Ashtead, on July 9th, I took an 

 immature earwig about 8 mm. long to which were attached six large Acari 

 of a brilliant vermilion tint and about 1 mm. in length. The earwig was 

 probably Forficula auricularia, but as the locality was suitable for F. 

 lemei, and immature earwigs are not easily distinguished, it might pos- 

 sibly belong to the latter species. — W. J. Lucas; Kingstou-on-Thames. 



A New Form of Gnopha;la. — The mountains and mountain- 

 ranges of New Mexico are more or less isolated from one another by 

 dry plains, and consequently present biotie ( = faunae and florte) largely 

 comparable to those of islands. The "insular" races or species found 

 are of various degrees of diversity, while, of course, in numerous 

 instances, no obvious differences can be detected between specimens 

 from different ranges. At Beulah, New Mexico, in the Canadian zone, 

 the beautiful Pericopid moth Gnophdla clappiana, Holland, is very com- 

 mon. It goes north into Colorado practically unchanged. In the White 

 Mountains of Southern New Mexico, on the Rio Euidoso at about 

 7600 ft. altitude, on August 3rd, Prof. C. H. T. Townsend collected a 

 male Gnophala which is clearly different from the numerous examples 

 of clappiana seen, and is, no doubt, one of tbe " insular" forms just 

 mentioned. It differs from clappiana in having two small white spots 

 below the large median spot of the anterior wings ; three spots (sepa- 

 rated only by black nervures) on the hind wings comparable to those 

 of the subapical area of the anterior wings ; a small round white spot 

 in tbe cell of the hind wings ; and the hind wings not so blue. Such 

 forms, which are not subspecies because not connected with the 

 type by intermediates (owing to the break in the distribution), and 

 are hardly distinct enough to be accepted as species in the ordinary 

 sense, I have thought to call idiomorphs. In this case, tbe Rio 

 Ruidoso Gnophmla may stand as G. [clappiana id.) riiidosensis. — T.D. A. 

 Cockerell ; Colorado Springs, Colorado. 



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