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Fauna of 8S. Uist by Percy H. Grimshaw, recording the larvee of Nyssia 
zonaria in thousands, abundance of pup of Abrawas grossulariata lying 
in the crevices of rocks, the larve having fed on heather, and the 
prominent banded form of Camptogramma bilineata ; and the descrip- 
tion by F. W. Edwards of a species of Mosquito new to Britain, from 
various localities in Scotland, to which the name Theobaldia arctica 
has been applied provisionally until more be known of its northern 
congeners. Among the smaller items one finds recorded the occurrence 
of Cetonia aurata in Argyllshiré, of the melanic form of Aphodius 
scybalarius (not mentioned in Fowler’s Col. Brit. Is.), a second Scotch 
example of Balaninus villosus, etc. 
The recent numbers of the Bull. Soc: ent. France contain the de- 
scription of a new aberration of Melitaea parthenie undér the name ab. 
- faivrei, by M. Le Charles, in which the antenne and fringes of fore- 
wing are entirely black, the forewings above typical, the hindwings 
with less emphasis of markings but more suffusion basally, while the 
striking character is the broad blackish transverse band across the disc 
of the hindwing below, from costa to inner margin, replacing the 
yellowish white band of the type, obtained from Fontainebleau in May, 
1916; a critical account of a collection of Microlepidoptera from St. 
Saens (Seine-Inferieure), and describing two new species, (1) Cne- 
phasia crassifasciana (Tort.), near C. sinuana, (2) Scythris hypotricha 
(Tin.), near S. inspercella, by M. Abbé J. de Joannis; by the last 
named author a series of remarks upon the constitution of the genus 
Scythris as understood by various authors, both in its sens. lat. and its 
sens. strict; an account of some insects destructive to vines in 1919, by 
M. Picard, includes Tanymecus palliatus (Col.), attacking the buds in 
the high Val de l’Hérault, a species usually met with but little away 
from the coast, the larvee of Calocampa exoleta, near Beziers, in a humid 
area, the larvee of Deilephila lineata var. livornica, in considerable num- 
bers near St. Tropez, where much loss was sustained, and other pests. 
We would ask those of our readers who have the very useful 
Compendium of Named Varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, by the Rev. 
G. H. Raynor, to read the critical remarks made in the Naturalist 
by Mr. G. T. Porritt. 
In the Rev. Mens. Namur, M. H. de B. Walcourt names a female 
example of Pieris brassicae in which there is a black point between 
neryure 3 and 4 on the hindwings upperside as ab. nigropunctata, so 
that it may be in-accord with the similar aberration in P. rapae and in 
P. napi, and he applies this name to the spring form lepidit (rapae) as 
well as to the summer form. Subsequently, however, he points out 
that the name posteromaculata had been applied to the similar aberra- 
tion in P. napi in both generations, and chat thus his name niyro- 
punctata would not apply to the last-named species. It will be remem- 
bered that the male of P. brassicae has a similar aberration of the 
forewing, which is known as ab. nigronotata. 
In the same periodical recently the following new names have been 
bestowed on aberrations by M. l’Abbé Cabeau, (1) Of Papilio machaon 
ab. benevittatus, in which the apical marginal yellow spot of the hind- 
wing is absent, resulting in the black and blue band becoming of 
practically uniform width throughout. (2) Of Agriades coridon ab. 
tarasina, in which on the underside of the forewings the ocelli, except 
in the submarginal area, run together, forming a single spot, showing 
