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that Epheslla seiiiinifa is found in grocers' warelionsos refers to the scnii-rufous form 

 of E. elulella ; the species now called semiriifa has been taken only among old ivy ; 

 the Jiffure (pi. ii, fig. 7) is that of the unicolorous variety of Homceosoma shiuella ? . 

 There is doubtless some ground for the assertion that the larva of Dioryciria 

 ahieteUa lives in fir cones in October, and spins a cocoon on the ground for the winter 

 pupating in the spring, for Ilofuiann's statement is confirmed byM. Ragonot, yet we 

 know that, with us, the larva feeds in the spring, in and below the young shoots of 

 fir, with the Retinia. 



The inclusion of two purely Continental species in this work by mistake for 

 British {Nephopteri/x rhenella, Zk., for hostilis, Steph., and Blelissoblaptes anellus, 

 Sch., for hipunctanus, Curt.) is, doubtless, accounted for by its advanced state when 

 M. Ragonol's "Revision of the British species of Phycitidce and Qalleridce" (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 17) appeared, and this will explain other similar matters, but 

 the statement on page 50 that the female of Acentiopus is "semi-apterous" is per- 

 plexing. Undoubtedly semi-apterous and even apterous examples have been found, 

 but, supposing there is only one species, they may have been ill-developed. The 

 female has usually much larger wings than the male, well formed and developed, and 

 the figure of A. nireus on plate 6 is, to all appearance, that of a female. It is also 

 difficult to account for the statement on page 75 that the males of Cramhus pratellus 

 are paler than the females. 



As the author does not supply descriptions of the species but relies on coloured 

 figures for their identification, a careful scrutiny of the plates is necessary. Many 

 of the figures are excellent, and, in the majority of cases, recognisable ; but a 

 Tcry large proportion of them are drawn from female specimens, and in the eases of 

 Hypena crassaJis (called here Bomolocha fo7itis) , Aphomia .lociella and Chilo cicatri- 

 cellus, in which the (very different) males are not figured, the student has, from this 

 work, no means of identifying them. In the last named species the figure is 

 not recognisable, even as a female, from an error in the shape of the fore-wings. 

 In Cataclysta lemnata and Scoparia alpina the sexes are transposed, JSbulea 

 verlascalis is represented with three transverse lines, and in several of the Cramhidce 

 and PhycitidcB identifi.cation is rendered difficult by slight errors in their markings. 

 The figure of Epischnia Farrella does not represent that species, but the variety of 

 Anerasiia lolella with white costal margin ; and the figure called Myelois cirrigerella 

 on plate 10 bears no resemblance to cirrigerella in structure, shape, colour, or 

 markings, but is a very good figure of Cledeohia Irunnealis, a native of central and 

 southern Europe. 



We are sorry to have to find fault so persistently with a beginner's first pro- 

 duction ; but works of this class are mischievous, not only from their repetition and 

 perpetuation of errors, but also from the fact that, being attractive, they seriously 

 interfere with the demand for those of greater accuracy and more real value. 



Entomological Society of London : May Mh, 1887. — Dr. David Sharp 

 F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. C. Ellis-Stevens, B.D., of Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.; Mr. Frederic 

 Merrifield, of 24, Vernon Terrace, Brighton ; Mr. Henry Rowland Brown, B.A., of 

 Oxhey Grrove, Stanmore ; and Mr. Coryndon Matthews, of Ivybridge, Devon, were 

 elected Fellows. 



