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thoracic region. So that it is evident the insect is viviparous, and 

 that the young are born in an advanced state of development, in all 

 probability one at a time. 



Dr. Hansen thinks the insect allied to the earwigs, and he is in 

 this probably correct. Still, the information we have about the 

 development is very inadequate, and even the structural characters 

 are by no means completely ascertained ; indeed, it is a matter of 

 surprise that Dr. Hansen should have been able to give as much 

 information as he has done from so scanty a material. The form of 

 the unborn young is apparently much more elongate than the adult ; 

 but the appendages are souiewhat similar to those of the adult. A 

 single young specimen was captured, and from the brief account given 

 of it, the genus evidently belongs to the group of mandibulate insects 

 with incomplete metamorphosis. How the young are nourished in 

 the body of the parent, the exact position they occupy, and the period 

 of life at which they are born, remain to be ascertained. Judging 

 from Dr. Hansen's figures, his species is. probably difCerent from the 

 H. talpoides of Walker. 



Cambridge : Septemler 2,Sth, 1894. 



JPhibalapteryx lapidata, Hb., in South Lanarkshire. — I was delighted to observe 

 Fhihalapteryx lapidata flying over a rather extensive tract of upland pasture 

 (VUO — 900 feet) across which I had occasion to pass at the close of what had been, 

 for the season and locality, a very fine mid-September day. The insect seemed to 

 be especially attached to flats covered with rushes and carices intermixed with 

 Scahiosa, and more rarely with meagre tufts of Calluna. Only a degree less in- 

 teresting than the feeble flying Phibalapteryx, and in striking contrast to it, were 

 swarms of Tapinostola fulva, which was careering about everywhere in its usual wild 

 fashion, except when lured into the little assemblages which the virgin females 

 gathered round them for a brief spell. These two species appeared to be the only 

 characteristic Lepidoptera of the time and place. Other species represented could 

 only be considered stragglers or belated examples belonging to an earlier period : — 

 Hydroscia niciitans, Celcana Haworthii, Larentia didymata, Cidaria testata, one or 

 two of each, and a few examples of Feronea aspersana make up the list of Lepidoptera 

 seen. The locality is very bleak ; it borders a great stretch of boggy and heathy 

 moorland, with a flora and fauna which appear to have few features of interest. 

 Coremia munitata is the only other insect I have yet found there which is worthy of 

 mention ; towards the end of July and beginning of August it occurs in the greatest 

 abundance. — Kenneth J. Moeton, Carluke, N.B. : September 2^th, 1894. 



Phibalapteryx lapidata in Stirlingshire. — For the last few years my friend 

 Mr. E. Eggleton has taken a small number each season of the above scarce Geometer 

 in South Stii'lingshirc. As each year came round kc has asked mc to accompany 



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