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13,— Towards the middle and end of September, when the ordinary 

 .^utmnnal sugaring is generally considered finished, Kpnnda Uititlenta, 

 Aporoplnjla ausfralis, and other local species often occur freely in coast 

 districts. 



l-l. — Through September the larvte of lieteyor/fuea cnn-iata (af<flla) 

 should be searched for on beech in the New Forest, &c. 



N.B. — Hundreds of similar " Practical Hints " for each mouth of 

 the year are to b? found in the preceding volumes. 



Restoratiox of Oeeex Colour in Lepidoptera. — It may interest 

 some of those lepidopterists who are fond of trying experiments for 

 the improvement of tlieir specimens, to learn that Herr (r. Lippe, in 

 the " Mitteilungen des Miilhauser Eutomologen-Vereins " for March, 

 1898, recommends the fumes of muriatic acid for the restoration of 

 the colour of faded green lepidoptera, and states that he has repeatedly 

 found it successful Avith Hiilnphila prasinana, H. hieolorana, Jaspiclea 

 •cehia, and especially with (leometers. If this really restores a perfectly 

 natural green, it will certainly be a boon to collectors ; I have just 

 spoiled a couple of beautiful //. pmsinana by leaving them too long in 

 a rather damp cyanide bottle. — Louis B. Prout. 



(iglURRENT NOTES. 



We have recently received from M. de Ijormans, a ne\A paper on 

 Foriicidaria, entitled '• Quelques Dermapteres du Musee Civique de 

 Oenes" from the Ann. Mhh. Civ. (jni., (2), xx., (xl.), April 18th, 1900, 

 pp. 411-467. Two new species of Forclpida are described, of which 

 ■one is from Bolivia, the first of the genus known from the New World. 

 A new and very distinct Labidura is descril>ed under the name L. 

 tenuicornis, and two new i'^rtZ/.v, one from the Old and one from the 

 New World. The curious genus (ronolahis is enriched by two new 

 forms, one from the Caledon river, in South Africa, and the other 

 from Sumatra. We observe that de Bormans restores the spelling 

 Spinujiphora, for the more usual Spomiophoni. A number of other new 

 species are described, including three Chclisoches. One of these, C. 

 doriae, was confused by the author Avith ('. siiperbus, Dohrn (Ann. Sor. 

 Knt. IJdij., 1883, p. 373), a mistake which he now corrects. A 

 remarkalile new Mccouivra from Mentawei, in Sumatra, is also included. 

 A valuable feature of the paper is that dichotomic tables are established 

 for the genera Forripula and GonoIabiH ; this is the first time that 

 this has Ijeen done for any one entire genus of this group, and greatly 

 :si)uplifies their study. 



The first number of the " Occasional [Memoirs of the Chicago 

 Entomological Society "' (vol. i., no. 1, March, 1900), includes a paper 

 by .]. L. Hancock, in which he descril^es six new species of Tettigidar 

 from Madagascar, establishing live new genera, to which he gives the 

 names Tettiarns. Xotoccras, Hubotettir, 0.r;/notiis and Cnjptotettix. The 

 article is based on 39 specimens, captured by Mocquerys in the Bay 

 of Antongil, in northern Madagascar. Other articles in the volume are 

 /' A new species of Goinphus," by J. Tough (G. cornutus, Illinois), and 

 ■s.n interesting paper by J. G. Needham, on the " Insect drift on the 

 shore of Lake Michigan,'' illustrated by photographs. His estimate 



