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there is nothing in English literature to guide him. To stay our best 
entomologists advancing because beginners find it hard to learn the 
names of insects, or because collectors cannot remember a necessary 
change of name is absurd. It suggests to one’s mind that Edison must 
wait because schoolboys have a difficulty with Ohms, Volts and 
Amperes. Perhaps Mr. Tutt’s book, The British Noctuce and their 
Varieties, will put us on a better footing, at any rate in one group, and 
we may hope in time to obtain a nomenclature somewhat uniform with 
that in use in every other part of the world, but not by sticking to a 
list as obsolete as our text-books. — C. Cammerer. July, 1891. 
LARViE IN A COMMON COCOON. — Last June I found a large brood of 
larvae of Eriogaster lanes tris, which I fed on plum in my garden. I 
had three cocoons with two larvae in each. Two I broke, and found 
the larvae had died without pupating, the other is still in my breeding- 
cage. Up to the present not a single specimen has come out, all 
appear to be lying over. — W. Foddy, Wolverton Road, Stony Stratford. 
Current notes. 
According to the daily papers, parts of the New Forest are advertised 
to be sold for building purposes. Mr. C. A. Briggs makes an appeal 
in the E.M.M., to the Entomological Society of London and others 
to take the matter up. 
The Daily Telegraph also publishes several letters relative to 
attempts being made to close the Norfolk Broads. 
It is assumed that all subscribers to the British Noctuce and their 
Varieties have now had their copies of Vol. I. The copies in future 
will be 7s., the price at which the volume is published to non-sub- 
scribers. 
Part III. of the British Pterophorina will be ready next month, and 
can then be obtained from Mr. Robson, Hartlepool (Price 6d.). 
As will be seen from the report of the meeting of the Ent. Soc. 
of London for July ist. Dr. Chapman has at last succeeded in 
obtaining larvae of the common Micropteryx calthella. This is interest- 
ing, after the many years it has succeeded in frustrating all attempts to 
find or obtain the larva. 
Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has been successful in rearing hybrids between 
Zygcena lonicerce and Z. trifoHL Mr. Fletcher last year successfully 
crossed Z, lo 7 ticercB and Z. JilipendulcB. 
Variation. 
PoLiA CHI var. OLiVACEA. — Referring to Mr. J. E. Robson’s note 
{Record, vol. ii., p. 84), the type and the var. both occur here. I take 
the n at rest on grey stone walls, tree trunks, and palings, the var. 
for.ning about 25 per cent, of the specimens taken. I have also one or 
two intermediate forms. — T. Maddison, South Bailey, Durham. 
June 2 >^ih, 1891. 
.VRCTIA LUBRICIPEDA VAR. — I have bred an A. luhricipeda with the 
pos erior wings slightly flushed with pink instead of yellow ; nothing 
