168 THE entomologist's kecord. 



25. — In late July and early August, cut down reeds with a yellow 

 central shoot for pupse of Nonai/ria (/eniinlpuncta. 



26. — Search trunks (near roots) of poplar trees in July for newly- 

 emerged Trochilium apifurwe. 



27. — In collecting Af/rotia Inidi/era sugar the thistle-heads and 

 other available plants along the edge of the cliffs. Best time, froiu 

 the middle of July to the middle of August. 



28.- — Aijrotis mjathina larvae full-fed on ling, June 23rd ; imagines 

 found in copula September 23rd. Other females laid ova on September 

 13th (Kane). 



29. — Holonota fjramJaerana flies at the end of June and during- 

 July, ?it du.sk, with a jerky flight of a few yards, very close to the 

 ground. They can be taken more freely by looking over the leaves of 

 the coltsfoot with a lantern, generally sitting on the top of the leaves 

 of the smallest and most stunted plants (Gardner). 



30. — Craiiibiis fnrcatdltis was flying not uncommonly on June 21st,, 

 on the grassy slopes between Sprinkling and Styehead tarns, and 

 was, in fact, found on almost every high hill ascended (Geldart). 



N.B. — Hundreds of similar " Practical Hints " referring to a very 

 large portion of the British Lepidoptera, have been printed in the 

 preceding volumes. 



dfURRENT NOTES. 



Lord Walsingham describes {Knt. Mo. jSla<j., p. 106) a new J'^-in- 

 crania, under the name of E. nmhriata. The species is founded on 

 -two specimens taken by Mr. Hamm, near Wellington College station, 

 on April 14th and 21st, 1894. The species is very easily recognised 

 by its unicolorous bronzy-golden forewings and almost white cilia, 

 which contrast strongly with the ground-colour of both the fore- and 

 hindwings. 



The Eev. F. D. Morice adds i^Knt. M<>. Man., V- 107) Kllampm 

 tnincatit.'i, Dahlb., to the list of British Chrysids, from a specimen in 

 the " Walcott collection," located in the Cambridge University 

 Museum. The specimen is labelled " British — Walcott," but there 

 are no further data, and the precise locality is unknown. 



Dr. Heylaerts (who has Milliere's original types) conflrms (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belt/., p. 189, May 14th, 1900) Dr. Chapman's discovery 

 (antea, pp. 86-87) that nraccella, Mill., is a Psi/chidea, and not a variety 

 of Epiclinoptcri.r [lulla. He further names the Esterel examples of E. 

 pnlla (which Milliere incorrectly referred to F. <jraecella), calling them, 

 var. montanella. We are quite at a loss to understand his further 

 action of renaming Eambur's genus Fsyclddca, of which nndella 

 (described by Rambur as pcctinclla) is the tyj^e. This he does, calling- 

 it llehdia, Avhich necessarily sinks as a synonym of Ps)/cJi(dc'a. This 

 multiplication of synonyms is to be regretted, and as Dr. Heylaerts' 

 had our paper on the subject as early as last March, this, at least, 

 could readily have been avoided. Heylaerts also names Zeller's 

 Bergiin specimens of E. pidla, calling them var. iiunitana. There 

 are many of these in the " Zeller collection," in the British Museum, 

 and these are quite indistinguishable from some of the original 

 examples of var, sieboldii in the same collection, before which var. 

 vtontana, therefore, necessarily falls. 



