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mountains. Among other species and other Orders he notes the 
fondness of Papilio zolicaon and the Alpine Pierids to favour the 
highest ridges and points, as also vast quantities of Coccinellidae. 
This recalls to mind how certain one is to meet P. machaon on the 
topmost ridges of the Rigi, the Burgenstock, and other like places in 
Switzerland, while the Alpine Pierid P. callidice frequents the steep 
ridges near the Higer-glacier station of the Jung Frau Railways. 
Prof. Skinner records a fine gynandromorph of Papilio turnus, the left 
side wings normal and the right side wings those of the black female. 
H. B. Weiss records another immigrant from Europe in Tinea cloacella, 
of which a number have been bred from Polyporus gathered from 
telegraph poles in more than one locality in New Jersey, Dr. Howard 
furnishes a list of the Hymenopterous Parasites of Kermes, a useful 
compilation for practical economic purposes. 
In the Hnt. Mo. Mag. for November Mr. H. Mace contributes an 
article on ‘‘ Balkan Butterflies.”’ 
In the Rev. Mens. Namur for November, M. T. Derenne records 
two unusual assemblages of Amphipyra tragopogonis under loosely 
attached bark on trees which had been thrown down in the citadel of 
Namur. On one of the occasions in August, 1918, he counted between 
30 and 40 specimens massed in one group. The aberration of Papilio 
machaon recorded by Dr. Reverdin in Geneva in 1910 as ab. melanostida, 
with a black streak in the discoidal cell of the forewings, has been 
bred in some number in Belgium, near Ganshoren. 
A new species of British Aphis is recorded in the Ent. Mo. Mag. 
for December, by T. Laing, M.A., as Aphis tripolii ; it was taken at 
Shoeburyness on Aster tripolium in August. The same writer also 
contributes a note on ‘“ Insects damaging Lead.” 
In the Ent. for November, Prof. T. D. A. Cockcrell describes 
several insects found in Burmese Amber; Mr. W. J. Lucas writes on 
“Orthoptera in Captivity” and “Preserving Orthoptera”; and 
Mr. Sheldon tackles some more of the problems in the Genus Peronea 
dealing with P. maccana and P. lipsiana, of which the larva were 
obtained from Rannoch. . 
In his researches into the Biology of the sand Ammophila (Hym.), 
detailed in the Bull. Soc. ent. Belg. M. Descy deals in a very 
interesting manner at some considerable length with the Theory of 
Paralysation. 5 
Mr. Cyril T. Carpenter, F.H.S., is shortly starting on a tour to the 
Andes. He writes to say that he is proceeding in a few days to 
Panama, and from thence proposes to go down the 8.W. coast and 
enter Colombia. The first town he will touch will be Medellin, where 
he proposes to stay for about a month. From there he will make for 
Bogota where he will probably stay some time. Then he proceeds to 
Purificacion ; after leaving which he will pass down through Neiva, 
Popagan, to Pasto, and will enter Ecuador at Ibarra. Then he will go 
on to Quito, Latacunga, Riobamba, Cuenca and Loja, and pass into 
Peru at Pongo de Mansericke. From there he expects to go towards 
the coast and continue on to Lima, from whence he will reach Cuzco 
and enter Bolivia at La Paz. He then intends to make a bee-line for 
Vilia Maria, Brazil, and to work through the district of the Matto 
Grosso to Cataldo and on to 8. Rondo, thence following the River San 
Francisco to its mouth and to embark at Bahia for Colon. Mr. John 
Ward will forward correspondence. 
