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Internally, so far as I have at present observed, there are the 
normal pairs of spermathecz, four pairs of seminal vesicles, and two 
pairs of calciferous glands. As these structures vary, however, with 
the season and sexual maturity of the worm, further examinatio 
will .be necessary. 
I have found a new Yorkshire worm near the Strid, in Wharfe- 
dale, which I believe will also prove new to Britain. It. belongs to 
Eisen’s Dendrobzna division, but as the nomenclature is bewildering 
I forbear adding to the confusion. The following brief description 
may, however, be useful. 
Worm about 14 inches in length. Very similar at first sight to the 
Purple Worm (Z. purpureus), but unlike it has the male pores on 
prominent papillae extending over the adjoining posterior segment, 
while the sete are in eight distinct rows, ma ing the worm 
octohedral. The clitellum extends from segments 29 to 33. 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
Larentia ruficinctata near Scarborough.—I beg t bg sero ee finding of ie 
bor 
imago of Larentia ruficinctata on Hutton Bincel Moor on July was in the 
mpany of Mr. H.W. Head, who at once identified the in which tallies 
i i rom ZL. cestata 
amed by Newman, the larva io bably his alternative ve plants not yet 
ecuuded: —REGINALD H, BARKER, Hull, pees 7th, I 
VARIATION IN BRITISH NOCTU-. 
The British Noctuz and their Maniciiee. By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Swan, 
Sonnenschein and Co. Vol: 5s. Od. 
WE have received the first volume of this book, which has for some 
time been awaited with considerable interest by lepidopterists. With 
the first paragraph in the ‘ Preface,’ and consequently in the book— 
contribution to entomological literature. The author’s theory as to 
melanic varieties, of which we have probably more in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire than in any other part of the country, to the 
effect that they are caused by an excess of moisture and cold, 
ept. 1891, 
