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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



Trinidad race, subsp. minor. In shape it is also longer winged, 

 besides being more transparent. 



The harpe is like that of eurilochus subsp. braziliensis and 

 enrilochus subsp. viorpheiifi, and although identical genitalia are not 

 absolute proof of co-specificness, yet in this case, coupled with other 

 characteristics, we do not think we here have any other than a 

 remarkable local race. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Abnormal union in Hyponomeuta euonymella (cagnagellus). — 

 While passing by a fence at Sydenham the other day I saw three speci- 

 mens of the above species sitting together, forming a figure Y. On 

 looking closer I found that two males of H. eiiojiyviella were united 

 to one female. The trio were carefully boxed and kept. After forty- 

 eight hours they were still joined, but examination showed that both 

 males were dead. The three were then put into the cyanide bottle, 

 and since then, still united, they have been handed over for micro- 

 scopical examination. — H.J.T. August 10th. 



Two Males paired with one Female ! — A short time ago Mr. H. J. 

 Turner brought me three specimens of H>/ponomeuta euonymella 

 (cagnagellus), which he described in terms much like those heading 

 this paragraph. They were dead and dry and certainly had an ap- 

 pearance to fully justify such a description. No very clear view of 

 them could be obtained on account of the wings of two of the speci- 

 mens surrounding the critical position. 



I damped the specimens carefully, just enough to enable me to 

 remove the wing drapery without danger to the specimens, and found 

 I had been very successful, as no disturbance of the embraces of the 

 specimens occurred. The actual state of matters was then easily seen, 

 one male was paired with the female, the other male was firmly 

 attached to the fifth or sixth abdominal segment of the first male 

 apparently having a firm grip by the claspers. 



Mr. Turner's prima facie view of the specimen is one that has, I 

 believe, been given as the description of occurrences of a similar sort, 

 though I cannot at the moment recall any actual record.''' It is obvious 

 that had the second male gripped the first, not by an abdominal seg- 

 ment, but say by one of its claspers, or thereby, it Avould have been 

 very difficult to demonstrate the true state of matters, the attempt 

 would probably have separated the insects, leaving the facts in some 

 doubt. We may, I thmk, feel tolerably certain, that two males truly 

 paired at the same time with one female is practically an impossibility. 

 — T, A. Chapman, Betula, Eeigate. September, 1917. 



:ii^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Agriades coridon at Eoyston. — Reports say that Agriades coridon 

 is again most abundant at the now well-known Herefordshire locality. 



* In the Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society for 1908-9, p. 96, two males of Zygaena fiUpendxilae "in cop. with one 

 female " were exhibited by Mr. Buckstone. — H.J.T. 



