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zeichniss and the Zutraege of the same author, and the subsequent 
adoption or rejection of certain names. 
In the Ent. News for January there is a summary of some very 
curious observations on the cocoons of Philosamia cecropia, entitled 
‘‘ Moonstones in a cecropia cocoon.” A damaged cocoon of this moth 
was found in a rut in a road, which contained three moonstones. To 
this record several previous records are added of a grain of corn being 
also found in cocoons of the same species at different times during the 
past fifty years. As to how these objects got into the cocoons is un- 
known, some were even found with the pupa still in sit#. The blue 
jay was suggested as the agent depositing the moonstones or corn for 
safe keeping ; other birds which this storing habit, such as the titmouse, 
the woodpecker, the nuthatch, other jays, etc., have been all suspected. 
It seems scarcely credible that a mere accident would be the method of 
deposition in so many cases. Does anyone know of similar records in 
this country. 
In the Bull. Soc. ent. de France ’ Abbé J. de Joannis calls attention 
to and discusses a very curious nomenclatorial point. In 1857, Mann 
described a species Coleophora drymidis from the neighbourhood of 
Fiume, the cases of the larvee being found on the plant then known 
as Drymis spinosa and hence the specific name of drymidis. In the 
course of his study of this species the author of the paper consulted 
the Index Kewensis, and there found that the botanical genus should 
be Drimys and not Drymis, and that Drimys is*a genus of the Mag- 
noliaceae, a most unlikely group of plants upon which to meet with 
the larvee. of a Coleophorid. Again, magnolias do not possess spines. 
Further research pointed to a plant indigenous to the neighbourhood 
of Fiume, and that was one of the Caryophyllaceae, having the name 
Drypis spinosa. Still further research led to Stainton’s The Tineina of 
Southern Hurope, p. 357, where, although he previously mentions 
Coleophora drymidis (p. 98), his words are ‘‘ Drypis spinosa: eases of 
the larvee of Coleophora drypidis collected in June on the plant. (At 
p- 98 I have copied Herr Mann’s mistake and printed it Drymis).” 
In 1891 and 1901 Staudinger copies the error, as does also Spuler 
in 1910. 
In the Hint. Mo. Mag. for May, Dr. R. C. L. Perkins describes a 
species of Stylops as new to science, by the name of Halictorenus 
arnoldi, found on the bee Halictus wanthopus, on a flower of Ulew, in 
S. Devon. Mr. R. §. Bagnall describes the following new species of 
Campodeidae, (1) Campodea gardneri, in turf and peat in many places, 
(2) Campodea westwoodi, at Rhinefield, in the New Forest. 
The Entomologist for May contains (1) Descriptions of new forms of 
Lycaenidae from Egypt, by Capt. P. P. Graves,-F.H.8., with a plate 
of 10 figures. (2) Notes on “blues” occurring near Cambridge. (8) 
A list of insects found in Burmese amber, and (4) Notes on various 
species of Hymenoptera. 
We hear with much regret that Dr. Norman H. Joy, of Theale, 
Berks, who met with a motor-cycle accident on Wednesday, June 26th, 
had not regained consciousness yesterday—H.D. July 5th, 1918. 
