70 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
J. W. Metcalf and himself, mainly by genitalic character. Among the 
very large number which have been examined three aberrations have been 
named multipunctana, n.ab., ? brachiana, Frr., and ? tripunctana, Hb. 
The second is Halonota littoralana, which has been obtained from 
Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, and EK. Devon, on the undercliff, by Mr. 
Metcalf, and comes near H. trigeminana. 
In the Hntomologist for January, Mr. H. J. Burkill contributes a 
short article on ‘ British Plant Galls” and includes a long list of 
species not hitherto recorded from the British Islands, with short 
notes on each. The Rev. F. E. Lowe gives an account of a visit to 
La Sainte Baume, Var, 8. France, in 1914. Mr. W. J. Lucas sum- 
marizes the observations madé in 1914 by the students who have been 
working the British Orthoptera. 
In the Scottish Naturalist for January is a very interesting article 
by Miss L. H. Huie, “ The Habits and Life-history of Hylemyia grisea, 
an Anthomyiid fly new to the Scottish Fauna.” It is parasitic in the 
nests of the Hymenopteron Andrena analis. There are several text 
figures of details. 
Professor T. D. A. Cockerell of the University of Colorado is still 
working away at the study of Fossil Insects. We have just received a 
separatum on “ British Fossil Insects,” being a detailed account of the 
series of Hnglish specimens now in the United States National Museum 
collected many years ago by the Rev. T. B. Brodie, mainly in the Isle 
of Wight. ‘There are six plates in illustration. 
In the Canadian Entomologist for January there is an article well 
worth reading on “ Heliotropism in Butterflies.” The writer, A. F. 
Winn, of Quebec, gives a series of observations made one hot after- 
noon on the action of a male of Grapta comma which continued to fly 
about near where he was resting on the beach of the lake. 
“1. Settled on the sand, head towards south, closed wings over 
back and inclined at an angle of about 60° with the ground, 
the tips of wings towards the west. 
2. Settled on sand, head towards south, held wings out flat, 
shifted slightly so head pointed towards south-west. 
. Settled head towards west, wings closed and perpendicular. 
. Same position as no. 1, but did not orient. 
. Settled on sand, head towards west, then shifted towards north- 
west, raising up body as if pitching forward, the wings 
closed and vertical. 
6. Settled on a log, head towards north, wings closed and vertical 
remaining in full sunshine for at least ten minutes, and was 
only disturbed when touched with an oar. 
7. Returned to exactly the same spot on log, head northward, 
wings outstretched. 
8. On sand, head towards west, wings closed and slightly leaning 
over towards south. 
9. On the body of a small dead rock bass, head north, wings 
closed, then opened out flat and turned around facing south, 
and walked to the head of fish, and apparently inserted its 
tongue into the eye-sucket of the bass. 
10. On the bow of the boat, in the shade, wings closed, pointing 
north-west, head downwards; had to be stirred up. 
11. Settled on the sand, wings outstretched, head towards west.” 
Or He OO 
