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of aberration, nor do any show any results of a cross pairing that I can 
trace. 
Is 4. trifolit much more given to aberrations than Z. jilipendulae ? 
It strikes me as strange that in a secluded spot where one insect 
varies so much—another (also given to variation) breeds so strictly on 
normal lines.—Haroup EH. Wiser, Cranleigh, Surrey, August, 1920. 
GJURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
The Can. Ent. for March contains “ A Soldier’s Collecting Day in 
France,” (Col.) ; ‘‘ A remarkable case of Homing Instinct” (Hym.), 
giving minute observations of the behaviour for more than half an 
hour of an Ammophila and its prey, a Lepidopterous larva; Notes by 
J. McDunnough, on “ Phyciodes batesii and P. tharos,” with a plate; 
descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, and 
Coccidae, ete. 
In the Hint. News for March several new species of Bucculatria, 
from the U.§.A., are described with other species of Tineina, and the 
article on specific names, etc., is concluded. 
The Hnt. Mo. Mag. for March contained descriptions of the follow- 
ing new species: Aprophora maculata on Salix, from the New Forest, 
Oneopsis carpinicola on hornbeams, at Colesbourne, Macropis scotti 
(common), Anoscopus kirschbaumt, Ewhurst, Pevensey, ete., and Limo- 
tettix persimilis from Tintagel, on grass, all Cicadina new to science, by 
James Edwards; and Loderus gilvipes, a sawfly new to Britain, by the 
Rey. F. D. Morice, from Lancashire. 
~ The Bulletin Soc. ent. de Belg. contains a continuation of the Notes 
on the early stages of the Trichoptera, including an interesting account 
of the water-snares of the Hydropsyche species, with several figures and 
observations of the habits of the larve, by M. J. A. Lestage. M. 
Lestage also gives a table of the Belgian species of the genus Perla. 
M. Ball records the capture of the havercamp/fi form of Brenthis aphi- 
vape, at Horkay, Belgium. M.-Lemeere notes the extreme abundance 
of Melolontha hippocastani (Col.), and the occurrence of numerous 
examples of the black aberration of the female, at Genck, Belgium. 
M. Lestage gives a list of the Coccinellid aberrations, met with by 
himself and M. Guilleaume on the dunes at Blankenberghe, where 
several species, including Adalia 10-punctata (variabilis), particularly 
the last, were in extreme abundance. ‘The list contains 39 aberrations 
of this species, of which seven have not hitherto been recorded. In 
another contribution M. Lestage records new observations on the ovi- 
position of Clocon dipterum (Ephem.), and concludes that the laying 
only takes place when the female is in actual contact with the water. 
The eggs are agglomerated in a ball at exclusion, but immediately on 
contact with humidity separate, and the larve emerge. 
The Ann. Soc. ent. Belyique contains a series of notes on the species 
of Bombus (Hym.) found in Belgium, listing the various known forms 
of each species, and referring in detail to the less known. As most of 
the species found in Belgium are also to be obtained in Britain these 
notes will no doubt be useful in this country They are written by M. 
Ball. 
The Scottish Naturalist contains in recent numbers Notes on the 
Diptera of the Forth Area by A. E. J. Carter, Notes on the Insect 
