36 THE entomologist's eecoed. 



He also informed me that he took them in the same locality, at the 

 same time. I showed them to Mr. Tugwell and he thought so little of 

 them that I did not trouble to give him one, but Mr. Coverdale and 

 Mr. Bower, to whom I showed them, expressed some interest, and I 

 accordingly gave them each a specimen. A year or two afterwards I 

 bought Coverdale's collection before he went abroad, and so his speci- 

 men came back to me. I have the four specimens now. I wrote to 

 several of my correspondents about these examples, and I had a variety 

 of opinions as to what they were, and where they came from, and then 

 for a time I thought little of the matter, and they rested in my 

 collection. They were not particularly well set (although both the 

 pale and typical forms were similarly set, on our white entomological 

 pins) and I gradually replaced the typical ones with better specimens 

 that were set in a style I approved. As collecting slowed down and I 

 began to study more, I was one day overhauling the drawers of the 

 Geometrids at the British Museum, when I spotted the pale Phibalapteryx 

 under the name of P. aquata. I am not sufficiently well trained even 

 now to see any real distinction between aquata and vitalhata, except the 

 difference in the ground colour, the former being white, otherwise the 

 pattern and arrangement of the markings appear identical. 



Mr. Bower spent an evening with me a little while since and, in 

 the course of our gossip, he told me that shortly before the death of 

 Mr. S. Stevens he was going through the latter's collection, when the 

 latter pointed out a specimen of the pale insect labelled " unique." Mr. 

 Bower told him that he had a specimen from me and gave him some 

 details, and states that he then removed the " unique " from the 

 cabinet. 



I have since had some correspondence with Mr. Prout about the 

 insect, and he informs me that there were two examples sold with the 

 " Tugwell" collection, one of which was bought by Dr. Sequeira, but 

 that he does not know what became of the other. These must have 

 been obtained by Tugwell subsequently to my having shown him my 

 specimens, but the locality seems not to be known. I have no doubt 

 there are other examples in various collections passed over, as mine 

 were for so many years, as pale forms of P. vitalbata. 



Mr. Prout has given me the following information of the insect : 

 Aquata, Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," fig. 410, without description ; the 

 figure is good, and as the species does not vary there is no need to give 

 a description of the figure. Eossler and Hering indicate the larva as 

 feeding on Anemone 'Pulsatilla and^. ranunculo'ides, but the former says 

 that in the absence of the Anemone species it can easily be reared on 

 Clenmtis. Hering gives it as occurring in Pomerania, Speyer in 

 Waldeck, Eossler in Nassau, Bremer for eastern Siberia, Staudinger 

 for Amurland. The distribution from Staudinger and Wocke's 

 Catalog, p. 192 reads " Germany, Belgium, Holland, Lugdun., ? Pied- 

 mont, ? Sarepta, Altai." 



Some new Exotic Fleas {u-ith j^late). 



By the Hon. N. C. EOTHSCHILD, B.A., F.L.S. 



Typhlopsylla teistis, sp. nov. (fig. 1). — The spine just anterior to the 

 antennal groove, in this species, is larger than in most species of the genus Typhlop- 

 sylla. Immediately in front of this spine there is a series of six short bristles, 

 followed by a series of three longer ones. There is a single long bristle between 



