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Anaspis septentrionalis , Champion (E.M.M., vol. xxvii. 105). 

 Heterocerus britannicus, Kuwert ( ,, „ ,, 132). 



„ pulckellus, Kies. ( ,> ,, „ 207). 



„ salinus V2t.x. rectus, V^dit. ( „ ,, „ 206). 



Pityophthoriis licJitensteinii,'R2Xz. ( ,, „ „ 16). 



Our Dipterists head the list by giving us twenty-nine new 

 species, whilst our workers amongst the Hemiptera follow 

 with ten additions, and our Hymenopterists with twelve. 



If our Macro group of Lepidoptera has no novelty, yet the 

 past year was fairly rich in good and rare species. Vanessa 

 antiopa was only once recorded — from Balham. There 

 is a great peculiarity attached to this species in England. 

 Hardly a year passes without it being captured, and in some 

 favoured seasons it has occurred in considerable numbers, 

 notably in 1872, when several hundreds were reported in our 

 magazines. Yet it is almost beyond dispute that it has 

 never been found here in the larval stage. If it did occur, it 

 could hardly have escaped detection. Having no personal 

 knowledge of this larva I wrote for information of my friend 

 Mr. Lachlan Gibb, who is now residing in Montreal, where 

 the species is fairly common ; and he sends me the following 

 reply from the pen of Mr. H. H. Layman, a Canadian Ento- 

 mologist of high repute — " The larva of antiopa does not, 

 strictly speaking, make a nest, as the leaves of the trees are 

 not enclosed ; it only spins a web over the branches and twigs 

 on several species of willow, on the American elm, and on 

 some of the poplars. As the caterpillars are gregarious in 

 their habits, their ravages are very soon seen ; and as they are 

 quite formidable-looking creatures, being black, with red spots 

 with branching spines, they are readily detected." Thus, I 

 think, it must be admitted, that from some peculiar and 

 unknown reason antiopa never breeds here ; why not, is an 

 interesting problem to solve. 



Several good clear-wings have been captured, as Sesia sphegi- 

 formis at Tilgate, S . formiciforniis in Surrey, and 6". scoHcb- 

 formis has been sparingly bred from Rannoch. Zygcena exu- 

 lans was found in its only Scotch locality, Braemar, by the 



