OURKENT NOTES. 57 



On August 21sb, I spent a few hours on Hayling Island, Hants, in 

 the hopes of obtaining imagines of Acroclita [Paedisca) consequana, but 

 of this I saw nothing whatever, nor did I find any plants of spurge. 

 When on the island in 1889, I saw plenty of spurge, but at that time 

 gave no heed to Microlepidoptera. I must have gone to the wrong side 

 of the island this time. Satyrua semele was abundant about the grassy 

 patches on the shingle, and Anaitis plagiata was common on fences ; 

 a few other common species were observed. The shingly scrubland, 

 the marshy flats, and some of the lanes, looked as though they would 

 yield good things if worked. My son had previously sent me a box 

 of privet shoots, containing larvse. From these I bred a series of 

 Cacoecia {TortrLv) podana, and of Pandemis (T.) heparana, also two 

 Gracilaria si/ringella. — Alfred Sigh. February, 1919. 



®^URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The Entomologist for January contains (1) " Rhopalocera of the 

 Lys Valley, N. France," by Capt. Mann and Capt.Eveleigh. (2) "Hemip- 

 tera-Homoptera taken in the New Forest," by G. T. Lyle, F.E.S. 

 (3) The completion of the List of British Noctuae. (4) "The Season's 

 Collecting in the Alpes Maritimes," by C. E. Morris. 



In the Can. Ent. for December, is an account of the practical results 

 in Spraying a Commercial Orchard for Green Apple Bug, Lyijus 

 communis (Hem.), in which it is shown that " the quality of the fruit 

 has generally been better than the average," after spraying for apple 

 scab (Coccids), etc., but after 1917, when the systematic spraying for 

 apple bug was begun, "the crop in the orchard was 406-9% of the crop 

 of the previous year," which had been a lean one owing to the 

 increasing infestation. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of France, on Decem- 

 ber 11th, a report of the Committee was read, in which it was proposed 

 to bestow the " Constant Award " for the year 1917 on the famous 

 myrmecologist, M. J. Bondroit, for his work, "The Ants of France and 

 Belgium. 



With the commencement of the fifty-first volume of the Canadian 

 Entomologist, the size of the page is enlarged and made uniform with 

 that of the Annual Eeport, and of the Ontario Government Bulletins. 

 This will be more suitable for full-page illustration. The number of 

 pages will be somewhat reduced, and the June and July, and the August 

 and September numbers will be issued together respectively. This 

 custom of issuing two months' issues in one is being followed by a 

 number of magazines. Our own did so last year, more than once, and 

 it is intended to do this again this year, especially in view of the 

 doubled postage generally necessary still. 



It is intended to issue the Scott. Naturalist in bi-monthly parts 

 until further notice, each number containing 32 pages. 



In the E. M. M. for February, is an article on Collecting in South 

 Devon, " A Lepidopterist's Retrospect," being an ac30unt of the work 

 of two field entomologists during the past twenty-five years. Mr. C. 

 G. Champion continues his descriptions of Exotic Coleoptera, this time 

 the genus Dianous from India and China. 



In the Ent. News for February, is recorded a " Swarming of the 

 Monarch Butterfly Anosia arcJiippus " (wrongly called plexippas, which 



