102 
f December, 
Beautiful variety of Arctia villica. 
—The variety of Arctia villica here 
figured was taken by me some years 
ago at Guildford and is now in my 
collection. Unfortunately the margins 
of the wings are somewhat damaged, 
as a cat had a hand (or rather a paw) in 
its capture, but the markings are as 
clear as in the sketch. I had overlooked it until overhauling my boxes last season. 
I should be glad to know if a similar variety has been met with by other 
collectors, as this is the only specimen I have seen. — F. Walter Sayaq-e, University 
School, Hastings : November, 1880. 
A list of Micro- Lepidoptera for collectors. — In the last part of the 41st volume 
of the “ Stettiner cntomologiscbe Zeitung,” recently published, is a list of the 
Pomeranian Pyralidina, Tortricina, Tineina, and Pterophorina, in all 941 species. 
This list, compiled by F. O. Biittner, with additions by Prof, liering and Dr. Schleich, 
is a model of concentrated information, which will not only be, primarily, of great 
service to collectors in Germany, as giving to all of them in a compendious form 
knowledge acquired by few, but it may also, for the same reason, be of essential use 
in this country. With many exceptions, the hitherto known British species 
are included ; of the others it is very possible a good many may yet be found in 
Britain, and this list may be of much assistance in discovering them ; it may also 
aid in obtaining more examples of some of our rarities ; in both cases, by the 
indications of habitat, season, and laiwa-food, all or any of which may not be known 
to us. The list will be especially advantageous to those collectors who rear larvee. 
The following extract, taken at random, gives a fair idea of the plan of the work : — 
Grapholitka, Tr. 
“ 40 (1131). Boseticolana, Z. The moth in June on wild roses. The larva in 
autumn in the fruit, which thereby becomes discoloured. The transformation in 
decaying wood, stems of plants or the like. In captivity the larva bores into the dry 
pith of the elder given to it for that purpose.” 
Our collectors may also learn, amongst other things, that the law of priority of 
name is followed as a matter of course ; that the uniform ending of specific names 
in alis, ana, ella and dactylus, which was once so much insisted on in this country 
as the proper thing, is simply ignored in Germany — the fatherland of the literature 
of Micro-Lepidoptera. 
It is sad to find, by an obituary notice in the same part of the “ Zeitung,” that 
the author of this list, F. O. Biittner, the most assiduous of the Stettin collectors of 
Lepidoptera, and the discoverer of many new species, died on the 4th June last at 
the early age of 56 years. — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 19 th 
November, 1880. 
Notes on Coleoptera in Sussex. — The present season seems to have been 
particularly favourable to the propagation of the Bledii ; in company with Dr. 
Power, on the 16tli of August, I visited a locality near Shorcham, which I had long 
thought would produce something good, and where I had before found Cillenum 
