138 THE entomologist's record. 



tJais species in part 8 of ^ Natural History of the British Bittterflii's. 

 Perhaps it will be easiest to cut this out and paste it on a piece of paper 

 and insert as a slip opposite the place in which we should have liked it to 

 have appeared. — Ed.] 



Early Polyommatus corydon, etc., at Ste-Maxibie-sur-Mer. — The 

 weather here is calmer and warmer now, but with a thin layer of cloud. 

 I found all butterflies much rarer than in previous years ; things are 

 rare that are normally common, and usually abundant things are barely 

 common. As exceptions, Pieris brassicae swarms, and Polyommatus: 

 corydon is plentiful in one very restricted spot. Thais cassandra is all 

 over the place, but only occurs singly, and nearly all are now much 

 worn. — Ibid. 



Where does Porrittia galactodactyla hybernate? — The fact that 

 the larva of Porrittia f/alactodactyla hybernates as a comparatively 

 small larva is well known, but the further fact that its foodplant, 

 burdock, dies down in winter, has always made the exact position it 

 was likely to take up during the winter, rather problematical, nor do any 

 observations on the point appear to have been recorded. It may, 

 therefore, be advisable to note that, whilst Mr. Foreman and myself 

 were entomologising at Cuxton to-day, we found the small larvfe of 

 this species attached to the half-decayed fibres of the main stem of a 

 plant of burdock, but under the outer skin, which was less decayed. 

 There was no trace of green leaves, nor had the main bud broken at 

 all through the crown of the plant. — J. Ovenden, Strood, Kent. 

 February 28th, 1906. 



URRENT NOTES. 



Herr Jacobs, of Wiesbaden, describes and figures {Iris, xviii., pp, 

 321-327, pi. ix., figs. 1-4) a new hybrid in the Sphingides — Choero- 

 campa hybr. pernoldi, the result of a crossing obtained in captivity by 

 Herr Carl Pernold, of Vienna, betAveen <y Eumorpha elpenor and 5 

 Hyles eiiphorbiae. Ten specimens were bred, all being males ; two are 

 figured, together with the adult larva and the pupa. 



Professor Eebel points out [Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., Ivi., p. 5) 

 that the form of Endrosa irrorella, which has been generally known as 

 var. freyeri (var. c of Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxix., p. 35) is not the 

 true freyeri of Nickerl. Dr. 0. Nickerl has sent to Vienna, for 

 exhibition, one of his father's types from the Glockner, and this- 

 shows that var. to be " minor, alis elongatis, pallide vitellinis, ant. 

 subtus nigricantibus, punctis elongatis aut confluentibus," agreeing, 

 therefore, with Nickerl's original description and Freyer's figure. For 

 the other form (Zeller's var. c) Rebel proposes the new name var. 

 nickerli, quoting Zeller's diagnosis : "Al. ant. pallide vitellinis (subtus 

 praeter margines nigricantibus), punctis seriei transversa primfe et 

 secundse elongatis, obsolescentibus." 



We wish to draw the attention of hymenopterists to a most important 

 paper recently issued, viz., " A study of the wings of the Tenthredin- 

 oidea, a superfamily of Hymenoptera," by A. D. MacGillivray 

 (Published at the Government Printing Office, Washington, U.S.A.)^ 

 The author appears to obtain important taxonomic results from the 

 phylogenetic study of the wing-structures. It is a paper that should 

 be in the hands of all our scientific hymenopterists. 



