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{November.) Dates of appearance of Lycaena Artaxerxes, 



•(taken on 19th June at Calverton, Roxburgh), by A. Elliott ; CrambllS 

 myellus (4 specimens near Perth), by S. Ellison. 



(December.) CEcophora stipella ; the food of itp larva, (on 



Sycamore (Acer Pseudoplatanus), under bark, near Perth), by 

 1890 (January) Scoparia atomalis, by Eustace R. B 

 states, as the result of a careful comparison of a series of this m 

 by Mr. Ellison from various localities in Perthshire), with S. an, 

 S. atomalis is only the "small, dark, highland form of the we 

 bigualis" a view first advocated by Dr. Buchanan White in tr 

 (IV. 244). Identity of Phycis adornatella Tr. anc 

 ornatella Dup., ky C. G. Barrett. Mr. B. comes to the cc 

 these two are not separable except as varieties, and that the 

 must sink to varietal names under the older Ph. dilutella Hlibi 



tella inhabits the north and west of Great Britain, adornatella tl :h 



east. 



(February.) Notes on the Metamorphoses of two species 



of the genus Tinodes, by Kenneth J. Morton, gives an account, from 

 personal observations, of the habits and structure of the earlier stages (illus- 

 trated with cuts of the mouth-pieces) of T. aureola and T. Wozneri, two 

 Caddisflies, of whose metamorphoses little was previously known. A New 

 British Retinia, by C. G. Barrett, records the addition to the British 

 fauna of a new moth, R. margarotana, H.S., detected by Mr. Barrett in Mr. 

 Hodgkinson's collection of British Tortrices, The specimen had been taken 

 in Scotland, probably in the west. Its previously known habitats are Silesia 

 and Greece. Heinemann's description is quoted as follows : — Anterior- wings 

 narrower than in turionana, of more uniform width, with the costa almost 

 straight, brown-red, with broad violet-grey leaden Ivies, finely margined xoith 

 black, and partly interrupted ; those leaden lines so very broad that the ground 

 colour remains only in narrow stripes, interrupted and branched in the marginal 

 area. Costal hooks inconspicuous, small, and faintly double, except the first, 

 which is sharply white, and continued to the upper of the two rather distinct 

 ocelli ; cilia shining-grey, with a dark line at the base. Head and long palpi 

 rusty-brown. Hind wings in both sexes brownish-grey, with pale grey cilia." 



