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ee in the same way, and they are all plants that defy extermina- 
ion. 
14.—Collect fallen and diseased acorns; place in a shallow box 
containing leaf mould and dead leaves. Stand out of doors during 
the winter until June, Carpocapsa splendana will be bred in plenty. 
15.—Beech mast collected and treated in the same way (as in 14) 
will yield Carpocapsa grossana. 
16.—Collect heads of teazle in October (in the better cultivated 
parts of the country they are destroyed before spring); tie in bundles 
and suspend out-of-doors during the winter; put in a band-box in 
June, Hupoecilia roseana and Penthina gentiana will be bred. 
17.—Collect upper two-thirds of stems of wild parsnip, and treat in 
same way (as in 16) for Conchylis dilucidana. Take care that the 
stems are placed out of the reach of earwigs. 
18.—Collect flowering heads of yarrow, and keep in bags (made of 
the material in which Australian mutton is imported); they will 
produce Conchylis smeathmanniane (I have also bred in this way a 
species of Hupoecilia that I am not quite satisfied about). 
19.—Golden-rod, aster, tripolium, Anthenis, &c., collected and tied 
up in similar bags, and treated similarly give good results. 
N.B.—Some dozens of similar ‘‘ Practical hints’’ will be found in 
the preceding volumes of this magazine. 
GYURRENT NOTES. 
In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for September Mr. Champion records the 
capture in some numbers, under pine bark and fallen needles, near 
Woking, of Anchomenus quadripunctatus, De. G. This is practically an 
addition to our list, as it formerly rested on the authority of a single 
specimen, and has been left out of our latest catalogues. 
Mr. Perkins records (nt. Mo. Mag., August) a series of Odynerus 
tomentosus as being in the Walcott collection of the University 
Museum at Cambridge, and as the collection is supposed to be entirely 
British, he adds the species to our list. The species is at once distin- 
guished from any other of our known species by the g¢ having the 
antenne formed as in the subgenus Ancistrocerus, but in neither sex 
is there a raised transverse lne between the two faces of the basal 
abdominal segment; there are four abdominal bands in either sex, 
the basal one not dilated at the sides; immediately beneath the post- 
scutellum the propodeum has on either side a short tooth or projection. 
After considerable hesitation, Mr. J. W. Tutt consented to edit the 
‘Proceedings of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies ” 
for 1900, and the volume has just been issued under the title of The 
South-Eastern Naturalist.« It is a demy 8vo. volume of above 100 
pages, and will have considerable interest to entomologists not only on 
account of the two valuable papers read by Mr. Merrifield, F'.1.8. 
(one of the vice-presidents of the Union), at the Congress and herein 
published, but also on account of the full report of the discussion on 
these papers included. he whole of the papers are by first-class 
scientifig men, and comprise: ‘The structure of the lower green- 
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