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countiy. He found that the food plant of the larva was Artciiihia 

 ■ mmpestru, and not any of the food plants usually given by authors for this 

 species. He gives details of the life-history and criticises previous 

 .authors whose remarks do not agree with his observations. For 

 instance the larva hibernates, but not in the adult stage, which it only 

 reaches in June, being in April only two-thirds full-grown. M. Ch. 

 Cabeaux describes two further aberrations of Apatnra iris. (1) ab. 

 di)iien's is really ab. afliicta in which the outer half of the upperside of 

 the hindwings is of an almost uniform yellowish-brown, the forewing 

 above with six little whitish or greyish spots and, except the second, 

 only slightly visible, on the undersides the white spots of iris are 

 represented but by little, or very little, whitish or greyish markings. 

 (2) ab. cerherea. The underside of hindwing is that of iole, but that of 

 the forewing has six little whitish or greyish spots hardly visible. The 

 median band of the hindwings above is absent, its space being covered 

 by the red-brown of its two edges. The submarginal round spot, 

 usually black and ocellated, is transformed into a whitish elliptical 

 spot. M. L.- J. L. Lambillion describes a new aberration of Loviaspilis 

 marciinata as ab. andrearia. Entirely of a slightly yellowish-white, 

 •except two black marks along the costa, the one at the base and the 

 other in the middle, a short distance from the first, and on the outer 

 margin of all the wings a thin black line, without the least toothing. 

 The disc of all the wings is completely destitute of black dots. 



The Irish Nat. for May contains an interesting memoir on the 

 Lepidoptera collected by the late Lieut. R. E. Cusack by J. N. Halbert. 

 Among the records are a yellow form^f Pieris napi, near Bray, and a 

 primrose coloured female with nervures and spots of a uniform pale 

 grey; Colias edusa at Bray; many forms of Melitaea aurinia from 

 Kilmancanogue, in the Bray district. A pale form of Rumicia phlaeas 

 and an aberration with the marginal spots on forewings almost obso- 

 lete. Polyommatus icarus ab. icarinus,' Celastrina arf/ioliis from the 

 Dargle and Powerscourt. Ctipido minima from the Bray Head cliffs. 

 LarvcB of Nisoniades tages from Merlin Park in county Galway. 

 Eiunorpha elpenor, T/ieretra porcellus, and Sesia stellatarum are the only 

 Sphingidae. The capture of two Hadena protect at Bray head is the 

 confirmation of an old and doubtful record. Plusia interroiyationis is 

 also similarly a definite record. Of Hihernia leiicophearia a specimen 

 is recorded. The late de Vismes Kane listed this speci-es as doubtful. 

 A large nunaber of Tortrices and Tineae are also included. One regrets 

 the loss of so promising and active a student, most of whose Avork was 

 done in the years 1913 and 1914, while at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 .although he had collected while at school. 



In the May number of the Naturalist H. H. Corbett gives an 

 account of the Aculeate Hymenoptera found in a Doncaster sand-pit, 

 and includes several species not already recorded from the county. A. 

 A. Dallman gives notes on the gall-makers (Zoocecidia) of S. Denbigh, 

 Hymenoptera, Diptera, Homoptera, and Acarina. Chas. Couldwell 

 records a curious teratological specimen of Zygaena lonicerae with four 

 .antennae ; it was bred from a cocoon taken at Flamborough Head. 

 Mr. Couldwell also records a larva (preserved) of Hipocrita jacohaeae in 

 ■which two of the black bands cross one another. 



To the May and June numbers of the Ent. W. G. Sheldon con- 

 iributed a long detailed discussion of the variation of Sarrothripus 



