18 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



one specimen of coridon from Puerto de Pajares, in the Cantabrian 

 Mountains, this has a very ordinary European aspect. — T. A. Chapman, 

 M.D., Betula, Eeigate. 



(grURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



In the Can. Ent. for October, L. W. Swett contributes an article on 

 the Genus' XanthorJuie {Petrophora) as represented in America. The 

 species dealt with is Ochyria ilefensaria, a species somewhat resembling 

 our British A", munitata in one of its forms, but very variable. It 

 is a common species in Victoria and California. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for October the following new species of the 

 genus Ernobius (Coleoptera) are announced by Mr. D. Sharp, E. mulsan- 

 tlanus from the New Forest on burnt fir-trees, and /?. reversus from 

 Brockenhurst. The Eev. F. D. Morice adds the Bee Nomada ronjugens 

 [dallatorreana] to the British List from Swanage. Mr. P^. S. Bagnall 

 announces finding galls of a new British Psyllid, Trioza proxima at 

 Penshaw and Koker, although the imago has not yet been obtained. 

 Mr. H. S. Wallace announces a gall of a new British Cecidomyid on 

 meadow grass, viz., Mayetiola radicijica, and later he took imagines at 

 Nenthead, etc. 



In the Entomological News for October occurs the following curious 

 observation made near Los Angeles, California. " Great numbers of 

 Melitaea chalcedon were flitting up and down the road and settling on 

 certain moist, sandy spots. Suddenly a grey ground squirrel ran out 

 on one of these spots and apparently caught a butterfly, then set up on 

 its bind legs and worked over it. I tried several times to get closer, but 

 succeeded only in scaring away the squirrel. Each time, however, it 

 returned and went through the same performance. Finally I walked 

 up and examined the spot, where to my astonishment I found quanti- 

 ties of M. chalcedon wings. I counted roughly up to a hundred wings. 

 — J. R. Haskin." 



The quarterly numbers 2 and 3 of the Jour, of Ent. and ZooL, 

 Claremont, California, contain the usual number of well illustrated 

 articles. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell has an article on New and Little- 

 known Bees from California. Fordyce Grinnell describes and names 

 a sub-species of the butterfly, Rusticua acmon, a Lycaenid, as sub-sp. 

 cottlei, from near San Francisco. There are half a dozen very good 

 photographic figures. E. 0. Essig writes on the genus Vanessa in 

 California, discussing the species V. atalanta, V. carge, and sub-sp. 

 muelleri, V. huntera, and V. cardui. He gives a long list of food plants 

 and three plates, with numerous figures of imagines and other stages. 



The Officers and Council of the Entomological Society of London 

 for the ensuing year are as follow : — President, C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc. 

 Treasurer, A. H. Jones. Secretnrii's, Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., 

 R.N., F.L.S., and the Eev. Ceo. Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. Librarian, G. 

 C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S. Council, A. W. Bacot, T. A. Chapman, 

 M.D., F.Z.S., E. A. Cockayne, M.A., M.D., W. C. Crawley, B.A., H. 

 Willoughby Ellis, J. C. P."Fryer, M.A., A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 G. B. Longstaff. ll.k., M.D., S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc, F.Z.S., E. M. 

 Prideaux, the Hon. N. C. Eothscbild, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., and A. E. 

 Tonge. 



The Officers and Council of the South London Entomological 



