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empty pupa-skin, after the imago has left it, is of a pale green colour, 

 much like the fresh tint of the wings of Metrocampa vmrr/aritaria. — 

 J. C. MoBERLY, M.A., F.E.S., Woodlands, Bassett, Southampton. 

 November 20th, 1900. 



<irURRENT NOTES. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes and Miss Fountaine exhibited, at the meeting 

 of the Ent. Society of London, October 3rd, 1900, a collection of 

 lepidoptera from Greece, taken this season in the Morea and in 

 the Parnassus region. Mr. Elwes remarked that the country about 

 Athens was much dried up and overrun with goats and herds, and that, 

 therefore, the lepidopterous fauna there was poor. On the south side 

 of the Gulf of Corinth, however, the Pieridi wero well represented, and 

 out of eight European species seven were taken in three weeks. The 

 spring and summer broods of Pieris krueperi this year were flying 

 together — an unusual occurrence, possibly due to the rainy spring. 

 Among other notable species, albinos of C'olias heldreidn (female) were 

 taken, Goncpteri/x rhamni Yav.farinosa, and Chrysophanusottomanus, while 

 Mr. Elwes further expressed his opinion that a Lycaenid taken and 

 generally assumed to be a var. of Nomiades semiargm was a distinct 

 species. Miss Fountaine mentioned in connection with these exhibits 

 that Colias heldreichi swarmed on Mount Kelmos from 4000 to 7000 

 feet ; and Mr. Elwes remarked that Miss Fountaine was the first 

 British collector known to have captured this insect. 



There is an old-world flavour about the record by Lieut. -Colonel 

 Haworth-Booth (a grandson of A, H. Haworth, the renowned author 

 of Lepidoptera Britannica), in the Xattirallst, p. 300, of the capture of a 

 disabled C'hoerocampa porcellm at Hull on July 17th last, the recorder 

 observing that this is " according to Donovan (pi. cccxiv) one of the 

 scarcest of the British Sphinges." Donovan must have written this at 

 least a century ago, and the species is now known to be quite abundant 

 in many parts of Yorkshire. 



Entomologists will be grieved to learn that Auguste de Bormans 

 has been obliged to give up work. For many years he held the unique 

 position of being the only serious student of the Forficidaria, upon 

 which group he is the highest authority, but for some time past his 

 health has been failing, and a serious illness in the summer has left 

 his right side paralysed. His retirement will be a great loss to students, 

 though his greatest work is at this moment in the press. His collection 

 of Forficularia has been acquired in part by the British Museum, and 

 in part by Mr. Malcolm Burr. 



Brunner von Wattenwyl has published in pamphlet" form the main 

 points of his great work " Observations on the colours of Insects, "t 

 In a handy little brochure, of 14 pages, with five plates, the author 

 gives an outline of some of the more striking colour arrangements and 

 patterns of the insect world. Though of course, less complete, especially 



* "DieFarbung der Insekten," mit 5 Tafeln, von Karl Brunner von Wattenwyl 

 (Vortrage des Vereines zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse in Wien, 

 xxxix Jahrgang, Heft 11, Vienna, 1899.) 



t " Betrachtungen iiber die Farbenpracht der Insekten," mit 9 Tafeln in 

 Buntdrlick, Leipsig, 1897. English Trans, by Edward J. Bles, B.Sc, King's 

 College, Cambridge, 1897. 



