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of M. Donzel’s observations. Aglaia and niobe, the female carried the 
male. In palaeno the male carried the female. In maera and goante 
the female carried the male. My notes say that in the case of aglaia 
the pairing lasted 24 hours.—H.J.T. 
JOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 
PLUTELLA DALELLA, Stt., Not In Hepinc Forest.—On page 22 of 
the present volume there is a report of a meeting of the London Natural 
History Society, held October 5th, 1915, in which it is stated that a 
series of this species from Epping Forest was exhibited. As it seemed 
unlikely that Plutella senilella, Gett.,=dalella, Stt., would occur in 
Epping, I wrote to Mr. J. E. Gardner, who most kindly informed me 
that the moths he exhibited were those known as Cerostoma vittella, lh., 
and C. sequella, Cl.—AurFrep Sica. 
GXYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
In a recent number of the Bull. Soc. ent France, Abbé J. de Joannis 
has written an interesting and important article on “ The Carpocapsa 
of the chestnut.’”’ Réaumur speaks of this larva in the second volume 
of his Memoires. Geller states that he is unable to recognise the 
species of Réaumur. C. von Heyden named the species Carpocapsa 
reaumurana. Heinemann described the species under this name in Die 
Schm. Deutschl. Staudinger in his Catalog of 1871 included it as dis- 
tinct, but in 1901 he mentions reawmurana as a variety of splendana, 
with the note “‘larv. in fruct. Castaneae vescae, variant, al. ant. ple- 
rumque unicol. fusco-plumbeis.” In 1845 Guenée had quite satisfied 
himself that there was only one species, but Heinemann, on the other 
hand, was equally satisfied that there were two, and describes reawmu- 
rana as having the abdomen reddish-yellow at the base, while splendana 
has the abdomen wholly gray. M. de Joannis has had a large number 
of examples, many bred from chestnuts, before him, and is quite 
satisfied that no such distinction as Heinemann expressed is apparent, 
and can find no basis for suggesting the existence of two species, 
although there exists, in some races, as pointed out by Herrich- 
Schaeffer, considerable variation from the typical form of splendana, 
Hb. A plate is included with the notes to show the range of this 
variability in both males and females, from very strongly light banded 
forms through many gradations to those obscurely marked and of 
nearly uniform coloration. 
We have recently been reading a book published a year or two ago, 
entitled ‘‘Hampstead Heath. Its Geology and Natural History,” 
written by several authors. Chapters on the Topography, Geology 
(Prof. Rudler), Plant Life, Birds, Mammals, etc., were interesting until | 
we came to that on Insects. Printers errors are annoying, but Coeno- 
nympha (!) wrticae was not one of them, nor were Coenonympha cardut, 
C. atalanta and Lycaena thawmas. It is strange to find P. yausma for 
our old friend with the common name yamma. But the gem is a note 
on P. betularia. ‘* During the last twenty years the dark double 
dagaria has practically replaced the light betulavia.” As for the matter 
of the chapter the “‘tyro,”’ as Stainton used to call an incipient ento- 
mologist, might perchance find something of use to him. There is a 
useful Bibliography to the whole work. 
