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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



British Carabid^. — I am making an inquiry as to the variation 

 of the wings in Carabidae, and so far as I have gone at present the 

 results are promising to be of interest. But I cannot hope to make 

 it satisfactory without the assistance of other entomologists, and I 

 shall be greatly obliged if anyone will send me fresh specimens. I 

 prefer them unmounted, and they should not be kept long in laurel. 

 One of the points is whether there is local variation. Specimens of 

 species, even the commoner, from out-of-the-way localities would be 

 very acceptable. Specially glad should I be to receive localised 

 species, which we may presume to be isolated from other colonies of 

 the same species. — D. Sharp ; Brockenhurst, October 11th, 1909. 



AciDALiA degeneraria IN DEVONSHIRE. — Last year Mr. J. Walker, 

 of Torquay, was good enough to send me a pair of A. degeneraria that 

 he had reared, with others, from eggs laid by a female moth captured 

 in the Torquay district. Just recently he forwarded two other speci- 

 mens that he had netted during the present year ; these are a trifle 

 larger but not so good in condition as the bred examples. Mr. Walker 

 states that he first met with the species in 1897, but did not see it 

 again until 1904. "Since 1904," he writes, " I have taken and bred 

 them from wild females every year." He considers that A. degene- 

 raria in Devon is of a different form to that occurring in Portland, 

 and thinks that it should have a varietal name. Except that the 

 purplish bands are dusky rather than reddish tinged, I do not find 

 any particular difference between" Torquay specimens and examples 

 of a second generation from Portland parents, reared in September, 

 1904, by Mr. Hyde, of Weymouth. — Richard South. 



Zephyrus betulje, ab. — I should like to record the following : — 

 From some larvae of Z. hetulcB obtained last June near Peterborough 

 I have bred a female imago which has an orange band along the 

 entire costal margin, tapering to a point at the tip of the wing, and 

 reaching in width to the orange blotch in the middle of the wing. 

 The hind wings are rather thickly sprinkled with orange, and the 

 specimen is somewhat small, about the size of the male. — J. B. 

 Morris ; 14, Ranelagh Avenue, Barnes, October 14th, 1909. 



The Generic Name Lomographa. — There is a serious discrepancy 

 in the usage of the name Lomograplia, Hiibner (' Verzeichniss,' 

 p. 311) by our leading workers. It was originally a mixed genus, 

 consisting of himaculata, Fab. = taminaria, Htib., trimaculata, Vill. 

 = permutaria, Hiib., and IcBvigata, Sco-p. = remdaria et Icevigaria, 

 Hiib., and was allowed to lie dormant until Meyrick (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lend. 1892, p. 110) resuscitated it for trimacidata and its congeners, 

 removing the other two. Thus trimaculata ought to be the type of 

 the genus, and I beg to " select "it as such, in accordance with the 

 requirements of the International Code, unless this be considered to 

 have been done already by Meyrick. Warren has been using the 

 name erroneously in place of Bapta, Steph., and has a note in Nov. 

 Zool. vi. p. 342 ; he ignores Meyrick's first work (published March, 

 1892), though referring to a later one (June, 1892), and his suggestion 

 that himaculata is " the proper type of Lomographa " is untenable. 



