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NOTES AND OBSEBVATIONS. 



Query respecting Plusia chryson (orichalcea). — Does "oW- 

 chalcea " ever pupate in the autumn ? Last October I beat two 

 large and unmistakably Plusiid larvas on E. cannahinum in the 

 locality where I expected to find orichalcea, and to my surprise both 

 went down in late October. I cannot beheve that they are P. gamma 

 ovP.chrysitis. — Charles Mellows; The College, Bishop's Stortford. 



Dermatobia in Guatemala. — In February, 1912, at Quirigua, 

 Guatemala, my wife heard an Indian screaming with pain, and found 

 that there was a dipterous larva under the skin of his arm. The 

 larva was extracted, and I find tha(t it agrees exactly with descrip- 

 tions and figures of Dermatohia, especially fig. 11, a, in ' Insect Life,' 

 September, 1888, p. 80. Authors have referred to two species of 

 Dermatohia, but Blanchard (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixv., 1896) goes 

 into the matter at great length, and shows that the records all 

 apparently refer to a single species, D. cyaniventris (Macq.). — 



T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Stomoxys at a High Altitude. — On August 28th, 1913, I 

 collected Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) in a cabin at timber-line, 11,200- 

 11,300 ft., on the Long's Peak trail, Colorado. At same time and 

 place I also obtained Phormia terrcs-novce (Mcq.), Musca domestica, 

 L., and Allograpta obliqua, Say. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Eetarded Emergence of Pararge egeria. — With reference to 

 Major Eobertson's interesting notes in the March number of the 

 ' Entomologist,' I have been looking up my diary, and find that, 

 whilst pupae digging under an elm on October 9th, 1909, I found a 

 charming green pupa suspended to a grass stem. Feeling satisfied 

 that it was rather unusual to find such a pupa during the winter 

 months, I watched it very carefully through the following months, 

 and was very surprised to see a fine male specimen of P. egeria had 

 emerged on May 1st, 1910. — W. W. Macmillan; Woodville, Castle 

 Gary, Somerset, March 9th, 1914. 



Tropical Grasshoppers (Phaneropterid.e) in England, — A 

 pair of grasshoppers taken alive in a hothouse near Felixstowe were 

 sent me in December by a correspondent. Some orchids from India 

 had recently been placed there. The insects belong to the Phanero- 

 pteridae, but are not of the genus PJiaJieroptera. They lack the spine 

 on the anterior coxfe, and are larger than either falcata or quaclri- 

 punctata. The male has a beautiful reddish-brown border to the 

 elytra, wing-tips, and centre of pronotum. The female is much 

 larger and of a brilliant green, including the wing-tips. I have 

 requested my correspondent to watch for nymphs later in case the 

 pair bred. — C. W. Bracken ; 5, Carfax Terrace, Plymouth. 



A Variety op Pyralis costalis. — In July, 1906, 1 took, at sugar, 

 a very remarkable variety of this pretty little species. The bright 

 rosy grey of the wings is replaced by deep maroon, or plum colour, 

 there are no signs of any transverse lines across the fore wings, and 



