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—a feat which intensifies wonderfully the general suggestion of 
* snakiness’’ which no naturalist. could fail to recognise. 
The pupa when attached to the denuded twigs of Skimmia in a semi- 
natural state is practically always of a vivid green which harmonises 
well with the underside of a leaf. Some pupe, in one of my cages 
which is only lighted by a panel of perforated zinc, were of the bright 
green colour referred to, for some weeks after pupation, but they have 
now become much more mottled. In this house too I have found the ~ 
only pupa I have seen of this species which is of the dull brownish-buff 
form with which we are all familiar in Papilio machaon.—J. A. One, 
(F.E.S.), Greenacres, Woodside Rd, Woodford Green. 
AGRIADES CORIDON VaR. SYNGRAPHA.—There appear to have hon 
captured in the Chiltern Hills an extraordinary number of the syn- 
grapha form of A. coridon. In fact one must almost look upon 
the form which has hitherto been only met with asa really rare aberra- 
tion of quite sporadic occurrence as being a local race in that area.— 
H.J.T. 
G@XYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
Conte Emilio Turati has published a description of a new species — 
of Anerastiinae, taken at Tivoli, near Rome, under the name of Hmma- 
loeera palaearctella. It is closely related to EF. leucopleurella, described 
by Ragonot in the ‘‘ Memoires sur les Lépidoptéres”” (Romanoff). He 
gives a plate of figures of structure, the neuration of fore- and hind- 
Wings, the androconial tuft which is placed between the median and 
posterior lees below the fore-wings of the male, the genital armature 
of the male, the curiously elbowed antennae of the male, the antennae 
of the female, etc. At considerable length he discusses the genus 
Emmatocera established by Ragonot, and the two species it comprises 
with regard to their structural likeness to various species in other 
genera, including the imperfectly known species Biafra rhodiniella. 
LE. leucopleurella was taken at Accra, in West Africa. 
Another of the old time lovers of Nature has passed away in Arthur 
C. Vine of Brighton, a member of the 8. London Society since 1889. 
Although he was unknown as an attendant at the meetings, some of 
the older members who worked the Downs in the neighbourhood of 
Brighton knew him as a valued correspondent, ever ready to help them 
in aught entomological they had in hand. 
The Vasculum, the north of England quarterly, for which our col- 
league Mr. Richard S. Bagnall and‘his friend Dr. J. W. H. Harrison are 
largely responsible, has now reached its third year of publication nd 
the June and September parts lie before us. _ In the former our colleague 
has begun a series of articles entitled ‘“ Primitive-tails, Bristle-tails, 
and Springtails” dealing with the three most primitive orders of the class 
Insecta-Arthropoda often termed ‘“ Apterous Insects,” viz., the Protura, 
the Thysanura, and the Collembola. These will be of the utmost use 
to many naturalists, as there exists no literature sufficiently elementary 
to aid the ordinary lover of nature in getting details of these orders. 
In the September number, Mr. Bagnall quotes from the article he sent 
to ‘“‘ Knowledge” in 1912 giving an account of his discovery of insects 
of the order Protura in England for the first time. He first found the: 
species in 1909 and perceived at once that it was a quite new type of 
