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subterminal band at the anal angle) is suffused with rose colour. 

 Some rose-flushed specimens have the basal half of the fore wing 

 very dark, the basal striga and all markings, except the costal 

 basal patch, being obsolete. The var. dives, Haw., occurs with 

 the submarginal band very grey at Sligo, Kerry, and Castle 

 Taylor, Co. Galway. None of these forms appear to be topo- 

 morphic. Localities : — Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow (B.) ; Cap- 

 pagh, Co. Waterford, scarce ; the districts about Kenmare and 

 the upper L. of Killarney, not very rare ; Ballinahinch, Moy- 

 cullen, Ardrahan, Clonbrock, scarce ; and one near Galway in 

 September (a second emergence apparently) by Mr. Dillon in 

 1894 ; Cromlyn, Westmeath, one {Mrs. B.) ; Newcastle, Co. 

 Down, one, which Mr. Watts describes as "having the darker 

 parts of the fore wings suffused with rose-pink, and the pale 

 portions a semi-metallic green." These colours, however, sub- 

 sequently faded. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Periplaneta AUSTRALASIA AND P. AMERICANA. — The two cockroaclies 

 figured ante, p. 97, which both appear to have taken up their abode 

 with us, are extremely likely to be confused one with the other. Both 

 are rich reddish brown in general colouring, but it will be seen that 

 while P. aiiiericana is the larger, P. australasice is more distinct in its 

 markings. The deep black patch on the thorax of the latter, together 

 with the broad yellow streak along the basal portion of the costal 

 margin of the lore wings, would be sufficient to distinguish the 

 species ; but it should also be noticed that the hind wings are com- 

 paratively broader, and the mouth appendages shorter than those of 

 P. america)ia. The abdominal appendages are very different in the 

 two species. The specimen of P. australasicB figured was captured in 

 Kew Gardens on April 23rd, 1895, and recorded in error as P, ameri- 

 carta (Entom. xxviii. 257) ; of the two, it is much the scarcer insect 

 in these islands. — W. J. Lucas. 



Nomenclature of the "Bee Hawk-moths." — 1 hope you will in- 

 sert this note, lo correct an error in the February number of the 

 ' Entomologist ' [ante, p. 41), as, if the error remains, there will always 

 be a doubt thrown upon the record in question when it appears in print 

 in the Harrow School publication. The insect captured by Mr. Percy 

 Khoades- Smith last year, and recorded (Entoni. xxviii. 233), was a speci- 

 men of the broad-bordered species, and nut the narrow-bordered species. I 

 had the pleasure of examining the specioien shortly after its capture. 

 — N. C. KoTHSCHiLD ; 25, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, Feb. 25th, 1896. 



Captive female Chcerocampa elpenor attracting male. — In June, 

 1893, a friend of mine captured, near Exeter, a female Chcerocampa 

 elpenor and, not being an entomoiogisc, he put it alive in a match-box, 

 The next day he came on to Burton with Ins capture. While waiting 



