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minos, Showing that they should be treated as two separate species. 
He points out that Boisduval described and figured 7. minos from 
Sicily and gave the description of the larva of Z. erythrus as that of 
Z.minos. Milliére makes the same error and suspects a confusion 
between the larve of 4%. erythrus and Z. pilosellae. The larva of Z. 
erythrus is pubescent, of a pale yellow, sometimes greenish, with on 
each side two rows of a dozen black spots. The larva of 7%. minos is 
very different ; it is wholly black, pubescent with a row of eight oval 
beads on each side of a citron yellow, surmounted by a velvety black 
point; the head is black with a lighter yellowish collar. The Sicilian 
race of Z. minos is generally larger than the typical form, and has 
been named magna by Staudinger. 
In the Scottish Naturalist for September are several interesting 
records of captures in the far north; several Pyrameis cardui in Perth- 
shire in June, Huwvanessa antiopa and Amorpha populi, also in Perth- 
shire (a form of the larve of the latter was taken with ‘blood red 
spots’ upon it), Trochilium crabroniformis occurred in Aberdeen, Rhyssa 
persuasoria was taken in Kincardineshire, the mountain Pterostichus, 
P. aethiops, at low elevations in Argyllshire and Arran, and the local 
Aphodius foetens and A. nitidulus in Arran. 
In the Entomologist for October, the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe chronicles 
the remarkable capture at Rannoch of over forty-five specimens of 
the rare moth “ant guest’ Myrmecozela ochraceella on one evening on 
one nest of Formica rufa. There is a description of the growth of the 
Natural History Section of the Bristol Museum, especially of the 
Insecta collection ; the Lepidoptera contains no less than 29 Chryso- 
phanus dispar, 52 Laelia coenosa, 19 Cleora angularia, and many well- 
authenticated immigrants. Mr. H. Rowland-Brown writes an Obituary 
of the late W. F. de Vismes Kane, in which he (H.R.-B.) states he has 
begun the revision of Kane’s well-known ‘‘ Huropean Butterflies ” 
with a view to a new edition when the war is Over. 
SOCIETIES. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTomoLocicaL Society. 
April 15th.—Parzer: Tue Britise Soctan Wasrs.—Mr. H. M. 
Hallett, F.E.S., read an interesting paper on the British Social Wasps; 
each species was taken in detail and any outstanding feature in its 
bionomics convincingly described. Considerable discussion centred 
round the position of Vespa austriaca as the ‘‘ Cuekoo” wasp. Mr. 
Hallett said that he had witnessed the wasp scraping fibre from an 
old gatepost as if it were gathering nest material; he also stated that 
in spite of such an observation it was quite likely that a species, 
which produced no workers, would depend largely, if not entirely, + | 
upon foster-parents for its progeny. It appears that this tendency of 
V. austriaca requires still further investigation. The discussion also 
elicited the fact that we have only one record for Lancashire and 
Cheshire for the hornet, Vespa crabro. 
PsycHID LARV# EXHIBITED.—Mr. F.. N. Pierce exhibited living larve 
of Solenobia melanella and Diplodoma ferchaultella from Northants and 
pointed out that no male of the latter species was known; he drew 
attention to the differences in the form of the larval case in each 
instance and the method of the feeding of the larve. 
