266 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. * 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 

 " Synopsis of Experiments in Hybridization and Temperature made 



WITH LePIDOPTERA UP TO THE END OF 1898," BY PrOF. Dr. MaX StANDFUSS. 



— We regret that Mr. Dadd has been unable to continue the translation 

 of this important paper, but we are pleased to add that Mr. Kirkaldy has 

 been good enough to take up the work from the point where it was left by 

 Mr. Dadd. An instalment, with plate, will be given in the November 

 issue of the ' Entomologist,' and the remainder, with two plates, in the 

 , ^ December number. 



''^ ' •' ^ Triecphora sanguinolenta, &c.— -Pr. Walker has fallen into some 

 little confusion in his " Notes on Triecphora sanguinolenta, Marsh., 

 Edw." (Entom. pp. 236-7). The three species mentioned — viz. mac- 

 tata, sanguinolenta, and vulnerata — are quite distinct, readily separable 

 by structural characters, and, as there are six other palgearctic species, 

 the records from Asia Minor, Spain, &c. do not necessarily refer to 

 vulnerata. It may be noted that the correct name of our species is 

 O Tomaspis vulnerata (Germ.)''' = sanguinolenta (Geoffr., nee Linne), the 

 genera Triecphora a.ud^Ionecphora being synonymous with the earlier 

 '^ Tomaspis. — G. W. Kirkaldy. 



Gynandromorphous Argynnis paphia. — Perhaps a variety of Argynnis 

 paphia, which I have recently acquired, may be worth noticing in the 

 • Entomologist.' Right wings are those of a female, and of the valesina 

 form of that sex ; left wings ordinary type of male, with the exception 

 of a black splash resembling valesina colouring on the fore wing. The 

 specimen was taken on July 28th last near Lyndhurst. — W. ¥. Urwick; 

 34, Great Tower Street, London, E.G., Aug. 27th, 1900. 



[This most interesting specimen appears to be very similar to an 

 example captured in the New Forest in 1881, and figured in the 

 ' Entomologist ' for 1882 (PI. I. fig. 5). The latter, however, is not 

 marked with valesina colouring on the male side. — ^Ed.] 



Male Bupalus piniaria partly of female coloration. ^ — On June 13th 

 last I took a male specimen of B. piniaria, the left pair of wings of 

 which are of the male colour, whilst the right pair of wings are of the 

 colour peculiar to the female of this species. — D. Chittenden ; 98, 

 Court Hill Road, Lewisham, S.E. 



[We have seen this very interesting aberration, but under circum- 

 stances which did not admit of close examination. Except that the 

 right fore and hind wings are of female coloration and their markings 

 somewhat blurred, the specimen appears to be a male. — Ed.] 



Orthoptera at Sugar. — On four previous occasions (Entom. xxx. 

 pp. 28, 76 ; xxxi. p. 267 ; xxxii. p. 290) I have called attention to 

 certain Orthoptera visiting sugar. During a recent stay in the New 

 Forest, on two or three occasions the sugar was visited by females of 

 our largest native cockroach, Ectobia lapponica ; while one evening a 

 fairly large green grasshopper, without doubt Leptophges punctatissima, 

 which appears to have been commoner than usual in the Forest this 

 season, made good use of its long legs, and escaped in the process of 

 boxing.— W. J. Lucas; Sept. 8th, 1900. 



* The reference to lUiger is only manuscript. 



