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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
iURRENT NOTES. 
Owing to the success of last year’s Special Index for the Record, 
another will be published this year. As we have been unable to supply 
any of the later applications for the last, and only a limited number 
is printed, it is necessary for those who want the Index to the present 
Vol. to make early application to Mr. A. J. Hodges, 2, Highbury Place, 
N. Its use to actual scientific workers is undeniable. The price will 
be IS. Every record will be indexed. 
Our monied Lepidopterists will hear with pleasure that Messrs. 
Reeve & Co. intend bringing out a work on The Lepidoptera of the 
British Islands, by Mr. C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. The work will be 
published in 5s. monthly parts (12 parts for 54s., if paid in advance), 
the number of parts apparently indefinite. Until Part 1 is to hand, it 
will be impossible to estimate the cost of so comprehensive a work. 
To those who can afford an annual subscription of 54s., until the work 
is complete, it will be invaluable. To those who cannot, a small paper 
edition will be issued in vols. (no. indefinite) at los. per vol. A 
Monograph of British Hemiptera-Heteroptera by Mr. E. Saunders, at 
36s. for 8 parts with plates, or 8s. without, is also being brought out by 
the same firm of publishers. 
In the E.M.M. Mr. J. Edwards differentiates the British species of 
Haltica ; Mr. N. M. Richardson describes the larva of Hypsipetes 
riiberata, and Mr. Sheldon the larva of Eupoecilia sodaliana. 
Mr. E. Saunders adds a new Hemipteron named Henestaris 
holop hilus, Ha?id., II., i. p. 2x^2 = geocoriceps, Antess., to the 
British fauna. It has been captured near Herne Bay, Whitstable, 
Sheppey and Whitsand Bay. 
Mr. H. T. Stainton (E.Af.M.) states that Helozela ha?n?jio?iiella, 
Sorhagen, is a prior name for Tmag 77 ia betulce, Wood. 
A supposed new species of Micropteryx, for which the name of 
caledoniella is proposed, is described {E.M.M.) by Mr. A. F. Griffith. 
It is “ very similar to purpurella, but the forewings are brighter and 
more regularly and completely reticulated with golden, and the anal 
spot is more distinct ; the fringes uniformly pale golden.” “ Sutherland, 
probably from birch.” 
Mr. C. G. Barrett states that all the male Spiloso 77 ia 77 ie 7 idica seen in 
the north of Ireland were of the pale variety. 
Coleophora leuconipennella captured at Denton, is added to the British 
fauna by Mr. C. G. Barrett on the strength of one specimen taken m 
1890. 
Notes of the Season. — So 77 ierset. — Ivy is now coming into bloom 
here, and a few of the moths usually found at its flowers are putting 
in an appearance. Sugaring has been very productive the last fortnight, 
in fact I generally find it so for a week or two before the masses of ivy 
are in bloom. I took 15 Sphinx convolvuli last month, most of them 
in fine condition, and all captured at the flowers of the tobacco plant. — 
J. Mason, Clevedon Court Lodge. Septc 77 iber 2><^th, 1891. 
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