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So far as I am aware, there is no previous record of this species in these islands 

 south of Perthshire, and its discovery in Cumberland is, therefore, of exceptional 

 interest. — Id. 



Aberration of Deiopeia pulchella, L. — On October 19th last (1893), my cousin 

 gave me a female of Deiopeia pulchella, which I confined in a box loosely lined with 

 paper, with the lid slightly ajar, and which I fed on a mixture of honey, beer, and 

 rum, the result being that I obtained fifty-two eggs, only one of which eventually 

 reached the chrysalis state. The egg period lasted from October 20th, 1893, to 

 October 22nd, 1893 ; the larval from October 22nd, 1893, to February 8th, 1894 ; 

 the pupal from February 8th, 1894, to March 16th, 1894 ; on which last date the 

 imago (a female) appeared, the following being a description : — 



Expanse of wings, 1^^^ inches. The fore-wings have only nine red spots, those 

 near the base being absent, but the four black spots (at the base) are confluent, with 

 merely a little white in the centre. There are only two red dots near the inner 

 margin, which are normal, however. At the hind margin there are only two spots 

 instead of four, those nearest the apex being absent. The remaining red dots are 

 all smaller than in the type, but the black spots are more extended, and are 

 generally united ; moreover, the black dots near the cilia are all joined together. 



On the hind-wings the black at the hind margin occupies exactly half the wing, 

 and the two discoid al spots (one of which shows through from the under-side) 

 unite, and are joined to the main body of the black. The two dots on the lobes of 

 the thorax, also, are confluent. The abdomen is blackish, instead of white, and has 

 a row of six black spots, darker towards the anal segment, which are not present in 

 typical examples, by this possibly showing a sort of connecting link between Emydia 

 and Nemeophila, or allied genera. 



The larva was fed entirely on Bora<^o officinalis, in a room facing south. — F. 

 Bromilow, Nice, France : February 2\st, 1894. 



The genus Pseudonosoderma , v. Heyd. — In the Deutsche ent. Zeit., xxix, p. 305 

 (1885), a supposed new genus of Tenehrionida was described by von Heyden under 

 the name of Pseudonosoderma, to include a single species, P. amurense, v. Heyd. 

 {op. cit., p. 306, t. 4, fig. 2), from the Amoor. He compares it with Nosoderma, of 

 the group Zopherides, and states that it differs from that genus in having eleven 

 distinct joints to the antennae, that is to say, the antennae (instead of having the 

 tenth and eleventh joints connate, as in Nosoderma) are formed precisely as in 

 Phellopsis, Lee. [Class. Col. N. Am., 1st edit., p. 216 (1862)]. P. suherea, Lewis 

 [Entom., XX, p. 219 (1887)], from Japan and Siberia, is no doubt synonymous with 

 P. amurense, v. Heyd. Phellopsis is one of many genera of the Heteromerous- 

 series common to the Palsearctic and Nearctic regions, as Boros, Pytho, Zilora, 

 Stenotrachelus, Phryganophilus, Pyrochroa, Dendroides, Pedilus, Microtonus, &c. 

 It contains two North American species, P. ohcordata, Kirby, and P. porcata, Leo. 

 The recently described Pseudonosoderma chinense, Semen. [Horae Ent. Ross., xxvii, 

 p. 499 (1893)], from Gan-su, China, is also a Phellopsis. By some mistake, the 

 genus Pseudonosoderma is included in the ByrrhidcB in the Zoological Record for 

 1885.- G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : April %th, 1894. 



