60 , THE entomologist's eecord. 



Gloucestershire Lepidoptera. — Since mj' notes in a previous 

 volume the following species which, so far as I am aware, are un- 

 recorded for the county, have been taken or bred by myself, and, with 

 the exception of the last, all in the neighbourhood of Stroud. Paedisca 

 occultana, beaten from Finns, July 24th, 1916; Asthenia {Coccyx) 

 pygmaena, resting on a beech trunlf, but close to some fine old spruce 

 fir, April 13th, 1913 ; Coleophora viryanreae, bred, August 12th, 1915, 

 from larva on the seeds of the Golden Eod; Laverna conturbatella, 

 flying among Epilohium anaustifolinw, July Brd, 1916 ; and PJiyllo- 

 2)oria bistriyella, beaten from birch, June 2nd, 1913, in the Dean 

 Forest district. — W. B. Davis, 8, Rosebank Villas, Churchfield Road, 

 Stroud, Gloucestershire. Febiuary 22»(/, 1917. 



(glURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The following members were elected as Officers and Council of the 

 Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society for the ensuing year, 

 ^,iz. : — President, L. 'West, M.I.M.E. Vice-Presidents, Dr. John Cotton, 

 Wm. Webster. Hon. Treasurer, Dr. John Cotton. Hon. Librarian, 

 F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. Hon. Secretary, Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S. 

 Council, Messrs. C. F. Burne, J. W. Griffen, A. W. Hughes, J. Collins, 

 R. Wilding, P. F. Tinne, M.A., S. P. Doudney, E. A. Cockayne, M.A., 

 M.D., F.E.S., W. A. Tverman, Wm. Buckley, Prof. R. Newstead, 

 M.Sc, F.R.S., and Gervase F. Mathew, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



In the Scottisli Xaturalist for December is a short article, "Notes 

 on the Insects captured in the Island of Raasay." The insects were 

 taken in the summer of 1916, by Mrs. Gaskell, and submitted for 

 identification. Erebia aethiops was said to be in great numbers. 

 Brenthis selene and Aryynnis aylaia both occurred. A female Sympe- 

 trum striolatiiiii was the only Dragonfly captured. " Probably the most 

 interesting insect in the whole collection " was that of the Dipteron, 

 Limnobia bifasciata, of which there are only a few records in Scotland. 

 Most of the species taken were found on the lawn or among bracken 

 verv near the sea. The identifications were made by Messrs. Evans 

 and GrimshaAV. " Some Forest Insects in Aberdeenshire," contains 

 notes on the saw-fly Neniatns erichsonii, and the Coleoptera Attelabus 

 curcnlionides, Cryptorhynchus lapathi, and Crypalus abictis, by Y\7'. 

 Ritchie. There are also extended remarks on " Scolytids and other 

 Coleoptera of the Forth Area," by W. Evans. 



The Bull. Sac. ent. France, for November, contains an account of 

 the damage done to the leaden lining of a chamber in a chemical 

 factory by Sire.v yiyas. The larvfe, which take two or three years to 

 feed up, were no doubt present in the timber which formed the frame- 

 work and the damage was done by the imagines in their attempts to 

 escape. Dr. Verity in the same month describes and names two forms 

 of Zyyaena. (1) A form of Zyyaena erytJira from Sicily of large size, 

 brioht coloration, whitish feet (pattes) in the males, and the females 

 with much stronger silvery feet than in those of the continental form. 

 It is called albipes. (2) A form of Zyyaena rnbicnnda which is 

 very comparable to the normal form of Z. erythra. It is called 

 erythraeformis. 



In an earlier Current Note, reference was made to the energy and 

 enterprise of Russian men of science, in particular was noticed the 



