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Amongst the Tortrices, all the Leptoqrammata hibernate, unless 

 we regard Boseana as a distinct species, and not merely a summer brood 

 of scahrana. 



Peronea mixtana lives through the winter ; it is quite possible 

 that some other species of the genus do the same, but no positive 

 proof of this is known to me. 



SimdetMs pariana has been beaten from thatch by me as late as 

 November, but has not been ever taken in early spring ; the thatch 

 specimens were probably only late survivors. 



Many Tineina hibernate, especially in the genera Cerostoma, 

 Bepressaria, Gracilaria, and their allies, but my catalogue of these 

 would be too incomplete, and too unsatisfactory for publication ; 

 indeed, this whole paper is written in the hope of eliciting information 

 from others, rather than in the idea of imparting it, for in most cases 

 it is self-evident that save in the simple fact of the winter sleep, this 

 phase of insect life is to me a blank : " hiatus valde dejlendusy 

 Teignmouth : January, 1890. 



Note on Macratria gigas, Mars. — During a recent study of the descriptions of 

 the known species of Macrahia, for the purpose of working out the numerous closely 

 allied Central-American representatiTes, I came to the conclusion that the Japanese 

 M. gigas, Mars., had nothing to do with the genus. Mr. G. Lewis has kindly allowed 

 me to examine the types of this, and of the other two species from Japan named by 

 Marseul (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1876, pp. 44.7—419) ; and M. gigas proves to be a 

 typical Stereopalpus, as defined by La Ferte (Monogr. Anthic, p. 4 and t. 18), 

 Lacordaire (Gen. Col., v, p. 579), and Leconte and Horn (Class. Col. N. Am., p. 410 

 [1883]) ; the other two species, M. serialis and M. cingidifera, being true Macratria. 

 Stereopalpus (=^ Stereo pselaphus, Gemm. and Har.) has hitherto contained three 

 species only, all from the United States ; the genus differs from Macratria in the 

 very long and cultriform apical joint of the maxillary palpi, and in the 9th and 10th 

 joints of the antennae being similar in length and bi'eadth to the preceding joints 

 (in Macratria they are stouter and more elongate than the preceding, and the apical 

 joint is much longer than the 10th). The form of the antennae, though so different 

 from that of Macratria, is not mentioned by Marseul. Mr. Lewis has recently 

 recorded a similar case of geographical distribution in another genus, Phellopsis. 

 Othnius also has representatives in North America and Japan. — Geo. C. Champion, 

 11, Caldervale Road, Clapham, S.W. : June 6tk, 1890. 



Notoxus Krugi, Quedenfeldt : synonymical note. — In the Berl. ent. Zeitschr., 

 XXX, p. 121 (1886), Quedenfeldt described a Notoxus from Porto Rico under the 

 name of Krugi, he probably being unaware that Chevrolat, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5, 

 vii, p. ix [1877]), had previously diagnosed the same species under the name of 

 bipunctatas ; the latter has, therefore, nine years priority. — Id. 



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