106 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



garden, I had previously taken it among spruce firs in a moorland 

 locality at a much higher level (about 700 ft.) and usually getting well 

 worn in the early part of July. GrapJtolitha ramella was seen about 

 birch, with Laverna atra and Arf/yresthia seinifusca. 



On August 13th, GrapholWta cineraiia occurred fairly freel}' in 

 beautiful condition, ^ s and 2 s sitting about on aspens, the grey and 

 black markings making them very difficult to see on the lichen 

 covered trunks. Olindia nlmana, Sciaphila siniiana and MiA-odia 

 ratzban/Jiiana also noted in the same locality, the latter a single speci- 

 men flying about spruce fir and interesting in apparently being only 

 the second record for this species for Yorks. 



On the Durham coast on September 2nd, I met with Peronea 

 aspersana, P. variegana and P. schalleriana, Eijhippipliora seiiiifuscana 

 worn, Spilonota incarnatana getting worn, D. forskaleana and some 

 belated specimens of Aricia cntrarche (var. xalmacin). — T. Ashton 

 LoFTHousE, F.E.S., Middlesbrough. 



Ephyra pe^dularia ab. decoraria (subroseata). — Mr. Turner's note 

 in the March number of the Entovi. Becord gave me the first information 

 I have received of the pre-naming, as ab. decoraria of the form of 

 Ephyra pendidaria which I described; and to which, in my ignorance 

 of its having been previously described and named, I gave the name 

 ab. subroi^eata. Until that note appeared 1 had not seen the volume of 

 Seitz in which Mr. Prout's description of E. pendidaria occurs — I had 

 seen Mr. Barrett's figure of the specimen in Mr. S. Webb's collection, 

 and wrote to Mr. Barrett for fuller information about that specimen. 

 He replied that he could give me none, and I therefore concluded that 

 it had been neither previously described nor named. The form is not 

 uncommon in certain woods in N. Staffordshire, and I described the 

 aberration from specimens taken by myself in that district. I apologise 

 to Entomologists for having overlooked the record in the Zoologist, 

 vol. xix, p. 7798 (1861), a record made when I was a schoolboy, which 

 I think only Mr. Prout's indefatigable energj'- could have rediscovered. 



F. C. WoODFORDE. 



(CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



I have recently received a post-card from Father Schmitz in 

 Holland, dated January 1st, 1917. On the front it is stamped — 

 " Part of a mail captured by the Germans and delayed." In it he 

 writes he is very happy to be able to see the Fyntoniolofiist's Record, 

 which he gets ar, La Bibliothique de la Societe Neerland d' 

 Entomologie. — H.D. 



Last month we were very pleased to see our colleague Captain Burr 

 once more, at home on leave for a few days. He was looking very well 

 and in his usual good spirits. He brought back some ants for us, and 

 other insects, reptiles, etc., from Salonika, for other friends. He has 

 now returned to Salonika. — H.D. 



The Entovwlogical iSews for January contains among other matters 

 (1) Notes on the Penes of Damselflies (Odonata) by C. H. Kennedy, 

 dealing mamly with a number of species collected in Hawai by Dr. E. 

 C. L. Perkins, and illustrated by two plates. (2) An account of the 

 Anopheles of. the Panama Zone for identification of the species. (3) An 

 account of some insects unusual as being found associated with orchids, 



