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results in the same way, and they are all plants that defy extermina- 

 tion. 



14. — Collect fallen and diseased acorns ; place in a shallow box 

 containing leaf mould and dead leaves. Stand out of doors during 

 the winter until June, Carpocapsa splendana will be bred in plenty. 



15. — Beech mast collected and treated in the same way (as in 14) 

 will yield Carpocapsa grossana. 



16. — Collect heads of teazle in October (in the better cultivated 

 parts of the country they are destroyed before spring) ; tie in bundles 

 and suspend out-of-doors during the winter ; put in a band-box in 

 June, Eupoccilia roseana and Penthina gentiana will be bred. 



17. — Collect upper two-thirds of stems of wild parsnip, and treat in 

 same way (as in 16) for Conchylis dilucidana. Take care that the 

 stems are placed out of the reach of earwigs, 



18. — Collect flowering heads of yarrow, and keep in bags (made pf 

 the material in which Australian mutton is imported) ; they will 

 produce Conchylis smcathmanniana (I have also bred in this way a 

 species of Eiqyoecilia that I am not quite satisfied about) . 



19. — Golden-rod, aster, tripolium, Anthcmis, &c., collected and tied 

 up in similar bags, and treated similarly give good results. 



N.B. — Some dozens of similar " Practical hints " will be found in 

 the preceding volumes of this magazine. 



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drURRENT NOTES. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for September Mr. Champion records the 

 capture in some numbers, under pine bark and fallen needles, near 

 Woking, of Anchomenus quadripunctatus, Be. G. This is practically an 

 addition to our list, as it formerly rested on the authority of a single 

 specimen, and has been left out of our latest catalogues. 



Mr. Perkins records {Ent. Mo. Mag., August) a series of Odyncrus 

 tomentosus as being in the Walcott collection of the University 

 Museum at Cambridge, and as the collection is supposed to be entirely 

 British, he adds the species to our list. The species is at once distin- 

 guished from any other of our known species by the <? having the 

 antennae formed as in the subgenus Ancistrocerus, but in neither sex 

 is there a raised transverse line between the two faces of the basal 

 abdominal segment ; there are four abdominal bands in either sex, 

 the basal one not dilated at the sides ; immediately beneath the post- 

 scutellum the propodeum has on either side a short tooth or projection. 



After considerable hesitation, Mr. J. W. Tutt consented to edit the 

 "Proceedings of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies" 

 for 1900, and the volume has just been issued under the title of The 

 South-Eastern NaturaUst.-''' It is a demy 8vo. volume of above 100 

 pages, and will have considerable interest to entomologists not only on 

 account of the two valuable papers read by Mr. Merrifield, F.E.S. 

 (one of the vice-presidents of the Union), at the Congress and herein 

 published, but also on account of the full report of the discussion on 

 these papers included. The whole of the papers are by first-class 

 scientific men, and comprise : " The structure of the lower green- 



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