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rule till about 4 p.m. I have never seen it at rest, though I 

 looked very closely for it. Its red colour no doubt protects it, 

 as many of the wastes are distinctly red-coloured from the scanty 

 herbage on them. 



With regard to Lithostege griseata, I would say that this moth 

 depends more than the others on its restricted food-plant, the 

 flixweed {Sisymbrium sophia). I have taken it in ten different 

 places in Tuddenham by observing closely and making note of 

 where the food-plant grew the year previously. I have hardly 

 touched it for two years, as it is a scheduled insect. The larvae 

 are plentiful, but in confinement many emerge crippled. 



I now come to Dianthcecia irregularis. The larvee are still 

 plentiful at the right time, but I consider it useless and destruc- 

 tive to try and breed them unless you are on the spot to get 

 fresh food {Silene otites). I take a few of the best specimens by 

 walking the banks where the food grows, using a good lantern, 

 which you can set down on the ground when a capture is made, 

 and a black gauze net, in which you can see to box or bottle a 

 light insect like D. irregularis easily. 



I found Heliothis dij)saceus the year before last quite plentiful 

 on the wing, and later I saw a good many larvae about on various 

 plants, especially on Silene inflata. 



I do not collect micros ; but in conclusion I would say that I 

 saw Spilodes sticticalis in great numbers at light, though a few 

 are put up in the daytime as one walks along the waste places. 



Finally, I would add a word of warning to those who wish to 

 collect in this interesting district. Get leave from the head 

 keeper, or someone in authority, as the whole neighbourhood is 

 now swarming with game, and a lon^ journey there may only 

 end, unless one is very fortunate, in being sent back empty- 

 handed and angry. 



1, Christchurch Villas, Tooting Bee Eoad, S.W. 



WHAT IS THE PROPER NAME OF LOPHYRUS, Lateeille ? 



By T. D. a. Cockerell, N.M., Agr.Exp.Sta. 



Through the kindness of Dr. T. S. Palmer I have been able 

 to see Gistel's ' Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs,' in which Ana- 

 choreta is proposed as a new name for Lophyrus, Latr., 1802, 

 which is preoccupied in Zoology {Lophyrus, Poli, 1791). Gistel's 

 new name dates from 1848, and, even if we abandon Lophyrus, 

 is not required. Dlprion, Schrank, 1802, apparently included a 

 species of Lophyrus, but the first species is a Megalodontes, and 

 the second a Monoctenus. Nycteridium, Fischer- Waldheim, 1806, 



