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among them being plenty of A. coridon, with a few P. amanda and 

 Plebeiiis aerjon in good condition, one S. orion, one Loiceia alciphron, 

 several Zygaena 'pilo sella e in excellent freshness, and numerous beetles, 

 including Cetonia aurata. I also found specimens of Arctia vilUca and 

 Melanargia galathea var. procida with several more G. cylldriis and (?. 

 nielanops. An aberration of A. coridon I took has two black lines on 

 the upper hindwings. The following moths I got last evening at the 

 electric light, Pharetra anricoma, Lithosia deplana, Maniestra oleracea, 

 and Thamnonoina vauaria. 



June 3rd.— Last night at light I took Apamea nebtilosa and 

 Calophasia lunula [linarian) — (to be continued). — E. B. Ashby (Lieut., 

 F.E.S.). 1919. 



(grURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



With the advent of March the Entomological Society of Brussels 

 recommenced the issue of its Bulletin and Annales. M. August 

 Lameere is President and M. H. Schouteden is Hon. Secretary. Three 

 numbers of the Bulletin and Annales have already appeared. Among 

 other matters these contain (1) The Construction of the Raft for the 

 Ova of the HydropJiihis (Col.), (2) Notes on the Coleopterous Fauna of 

 Belgium, (3) The Aquatic Hemiptera of Belgium, (4) Notes on the 

 Field Cricket, (5) A Study of the Psycliodidae (Dip.) of Belgium, (6) 

 Descriptions of a large number of new species of Buprestidae (Col.), 

 etc. . We welcome the appearance of this publication. 



Part V. of the Trans. Ent. Soc. London for 1918, concluding the 

 volume, has just been issued. In spite of a few losses by death and 

 resignation the membership, we are told in the annual report, has gone 

 up to over 600, and the income of the Society has increased by con- 

 siderably over £200, although from various circumstances only 455 

 Fellows paid their subscription within the financial year. One good 

 feature we note, and that is that the accounts are now examined and 

 certified correct by a chartered accountant. A new feature is the 

 inclusion of a list of the Donors to the Society. 



The Smithsonian Institute have sent the following publications as 

 separata : — (1) New Ptinid Beetles, mostly reared during the investiga- 

 tion of attacks on forest trees. (2) Hemiptera from Dominica, col- 

 lected by the Yale Expedition, 1913. (3) New species of Chalcid-flies. 

 (4) Additions and Corrections to the previously published paper on 

 Gall-wasps of the Cynipoidea. (5) New reared species of Parasitic 

 Hymenoptera ; and (6) by Prof Cockerell, the third portion of his long 

 memoir on the Bees m the U.S. National Museum. In this he deals 

 with the genera Melipona, Trigona, Xylocopa, Ceratina, Coelioxys, 

 Centris, Megachile, etc. 



In the Bull. Soc. ent. Pr. for March is an article by the Abbe J. de 

 Joannis, " The Galleriidae should form a distinct family from the 

 Pyralidae," in which he endeavours at some length to show from 

 ^numerous points of view, and on various grounds, that the former 

 were derived from the Microlepidopteron stock and only came to 

 resemble the Pyralidae by subsequent convergence. 



In the Pt,eyue Mens. (NainJir) for April, Baron Crombrugge writes a 

 note on the occurrence commonly around Brussels of Pyrausta nuhi- 

 lalis, where it had hitherto been considered to be as rare as in this 



