258 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Subclass 7. Libelluloidea, Handl. 

 Order 1. Odonata, Fahr. 



Subclass 8. Ephemeroidea, Handl. 

 Order 1. Plectoptera, Pack. 



Subclass 9. Neuropteroidea, Handl. 



Order 1. Megalopterfe (Latr.). 



,, 2. Khaphidioidea, Handl. 



,, 3. Neuroptera [Linn.). 



Subclass 10. Panorpoidea, Handl. 

 Order 1. Panorpatfe, Brauer. 



,, 2. Phryganoidea, Hawrfi. [= |1 Trichoptera.] 



,, 3. Lepidoptera, L. 



,, 4. Diptera, L. 



,, 5. Suctoria, De Geer. 



Subclass 11. Hemipteroidea, Handl. 

 Order 1. Hemiptera (L.). 

 ,, 2. Homoptera {Leach). 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Pupation of Smerinthus tili^:. — On August 27th, while taking a 

 short stroll in Walmer, I found a Coss?<s-infected elm, in the bark of 

 which were holes through which the moths had made their exit. On 

 removing the bark from one of these holes I, of course, found the 

 cocoon of ligniperda, but in it I found a perfect and apparently newly- 

 turned pupa of tilia. The pupa was very lively, and certainly a fresh 

 one. Surely this is a singular method of pupation for this insect ? — 

 R. A. Jackson ; HoUingbourne, September 9th, 1905. 



A NEW Pest of the Orange. — Last May, Professor V. A. Clark sent 

 me a larva which was eating the leaves of orange trees at Phoenix, 

 Arizona, doing some damage. Only the young trees were affected, the 

 old ones going unharmed. I bred the moth in due course, and it proves 

 to be Chloridea obsoleta (Pabr.) var. umhrosa (Grote) — more generally 

 known as Heliothis arwirfera umbrosa. The insect is common, but I had 

 not before known it to attack the orange. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Notes on the Season 1905. — Although I have not taken any 

 special notice of the Rhopalocera during this season, except, perhaps, 

 of the Hesperids, I think more butterflies have come under my notice 

 this year in England than for many years past. Almost every plant 

 of Fihamnus noted in Surrey or Sussex was tenanted by Gonepteryx 



