144. | November, 1870. 
A correction concerning the genus Phytoptus.—In the condensed report of the 
Proc. of the Ent. Soc. of London, on the 4th July, 1870 (ante p. 67), I am said to 
have suggested, that various forms of Acari, for which Professor Westwood then 
proposed the new generic name of “ Acarellus,” were identical with those described 
by ‘‘ Dejean” under the name of Phytoptus. 
I have indeed a recollection that I did say “ Dejean,” but I desire to mention 
that this was an obvious error of utterance for “ Dujardin,” as, of course, it is well 
known that the energetic Count Dejean, who made his horsemen collect beetles 
during the lull of reconnoitrings and fights, never published any papers but on his 
favourite order Coleoptera. 
Besides, as bearing on the knowledge of the genus Phytoptus, I find a note by 
my esteemed correspondent M. Lichtenstein, of Montpellier, in the “ Bulletin de la 
Soc. Ent. de France, 4me sér., Vol. 10, pg.1,” in which this gentleman incidentally 
mentions, that the Phytoptus foreseen by Réaumur (Vol. iii, mém. 12), has been 
named by Turpin and Latreille Sarcoptes gallarum tilie, and has been well described 
by Dujardin in the Annales des Sci. Nat., 1851, pg. 166.— ALBERT MULLER, 
South Norwood, 8.E., September 17th, 1870. 7 
Review. 
VERZEICHNISS DER SCHMETTERLINGE DER UMGEGEND VON HALLE AN DER SAALE. 
By A. Stance. Leipzig: E. Kummer, 1869. 
Halle, where Germar lived, must, to any entomologist, be a sort of sacred 
ground. The author of the present Catalogue of the Lepidoptera in the neighbour- 
hood of Halle, is now no more. 
The Catalogue we have before us is very carefully written, and shows con- 
siderable powers of observation ; and we have no doubt that it will furnish many 
a useful hint to British Entomologists. 
It must be a matter of regret to us that Herr Stange, from whom much 
might have been expected, should have died so young (he was only in his 35th year) ; 
his unpretending little work of 108 pages teems with notes of interest to all 
engaged in working out the histories of our Lepidoptera. 
At p. 35, we are informed that the larvae of Trachea atriplicis strayed by 
thousands from a field of oats across a road, occupying a space of twenty paces in 
width, and being thirty-six hours in transit. Amongst them were many larvee of 
Spilosoma menthastri, which eagerly sucked up the juices of such larvee of atriplicis 
as were trodden on. The cause of this migration was altogether inexplicable, as 
there was no lack of food amongst the oats which they quitted. 
The rare Mussehliana may soon be an inmate of all our cabinets, if we bear in 
mind that it was ‘‘once bred abundantly from the seeds of Butomus wmbellatus.” 
Of Ochsenheimeria vacculella we read—“ one year this occurred on the windows of 
a house in innumerable quantities; since then only singly, at the same place.” — 
How this insect finds its way into houses, is at present one of the most perplexing 
problems of the Micro-Lepidopterist. 
Of Geophora Schefferetla we read—‘* in May and June all about, on the trunks 
of old trees, especially willows and poplars, but always siugly.’’ 
