114 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



In the Revue Mens, of Namur, for February, Ch. Cabeau announces 

 and describes three new aberrations of Apatnra iris. (1) ab. 

 transtenuata, in which the white markings on both fore- and hindwings 

 above are smaller and thus more separate, and similarly on the 

 underside the white markings are much reduced and the band divided. 

 The rays are more or less marked by reddish-brown. (2) ab. UKmopliana, 

 in which the white spots below on the hindwing are almost ol»lii,erated 

 by dark suffusion, and with still further contraction and suffusion of 

 the white marks on the forewing than in the transtenuata form. (3) 

 Ab. penuDibrata, in which there are only a few small spots, dots, and 

 traces of the white markings remaining. 



A note from Signor Querci informs us that his "wife and daughter 

 have left Florence and are now in the Peninsula of S'lrrento (Nnples) 

 to collect Lepidoptera," and that he " hopes to be able to offer very 

 nice species from South Italy next autumn." 



The Jiish Naturalist iov March contains a report of Irish Irhneu- 

 monidae and Bracn)iiilae for the year 1918, by the Rev. W, F. Johnson. 

 In the Scottish Naturalist for March, Percy H, Grim^haw has 

 begun an article on the "Collection and Preservation of Diptera," 

 summarizing our knowledge of the habits of the various families with 

 B, view to the discovery and capture of the species, and conrribiiting a 

 series of useful, practical hints as to preservation of one's captures. 

 In the same number the following butterflies are mentioned as having 

 been met with on the Island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. Aiyyunis 

 aylaia, A. selene, At/lais iii'ticae, Pyrameis atalanta, P. canlui, K/iin<'/ihele 

 jurtina, Cdenoiiyuijtha pauip/iilfis, C. tijilwn, Hipparcliia seuiele, 

 Callophrys rubi, PolyiDiniiatus icarus, and Pieris napi. 



In the Naturalist for March, \V. Mansbridge gives a list of the 

 Micro-Lepidoptera met with by him in the famous \\'Larfedale of 

 Yorkshire, and incidentally remarks that he has found no tendency to 

 melanism in the locality except in the case of the Macro Polia rhl. 



The Entouioloyist for March contains Collecting at Eannoch in 

 1918 by F. G. Whittle, a Summary of the British ^Jeuroptera noted in 

 1917-18 by W. J. Lucas, a List of Hymenoptera and I^ipiera of a 

 Kentish Salt Marsh (Faversham), by Mfijor Robertson, and Lepidoptera 

 from South Norway, near Christiansund, by J. C. Hawkshaw. In the 

 April number there is an interesting article on Some Nurth Country 

 Species and Forms of Lepidoptera by J. J. Lister, F.R.S. 



In the Fyut. Mo. Ma(i. for April is an article entitled " Twenty-five 

 Years in South Devon," dealing with the various rare and local sptcies 

 which have been obtainable there almost exclusively for many 

 years past. 



The Knt. News for April has an extremely interesting article on a 

 Micro-Lepidoptera, Kudeiuensia bassettella, which is parasitic on a 

 Coccid Kerm.es ij alii for iids, which infests the oak in some parts of 

 N. America. It was at one time erroneously said to be a gall- feeder. 

 The authors of the paper, Messrs. A. H. Hollmger and H. 13. Parks, 

 •claim that the species is widely distributed and that in a few cases it 

 has been sufficiently abundant to materially reduce the Coccids' 

 numbers. There is also a plate of figures in illustrati'-n of the pafier. 

 That genus of wonderful "house-builders," Coleophora, is still being 

 added to. In the April number of the Knt. News is the first instalment of 

 an article dealing with new species and remarks on several previously 



