40 THE entomologist's kecord. 



the white cliffs of Ayasma between Tuzla and Dil Iskele?si. Here I 

 took a couple of Cnpido sebriis, and quite a good series of //. aihnetiis, 

 A good female of Paran/e roxelana taken in an orchard near the shrine 

 from which Ayasma (Agiasma) derives its name, and one or two P. 

 maera were also among my captures. I may note that Mrs. Whittall 

 took a single S. haviits near here in May. My search for Polyommatim 

 nuicai/er on Prinkipo Island at the end of June w^as a complete failure. 

 I was too late I expect, that is if P. melcaiier is still to be found there.. 



The Southern Marmora. 



During a yachting cruise in June, Mrs. Whittall brought back a 

 fine series of Melanar(/ia larism closely approaching var. syriaca from' 

 Artaki on the south coast of the Sea of Marmora, and several fine 

 specimens of HipparcJiia bi-iseis with Envanessa aiiti<jpa from Marmora 

 Island, Melitaea athalia var. uteliadienais from woods on the south coast 

 of the Gulf of Ismid, and Lampides hueticiis from near Yalova. She 

 also received a very fine specimen of Gonejitenjx deopatra from 

 Smyrna. 



To my Constantinople list must now be added the following species:: 

 — (?) Vlrynnia althaeae, Klnyia spini, Everex aryiadi's, Cnpido sebrtis^ 

 Ayriades tJietis, Hirsntina adjnetiiK, Scolitantidcs harius, Tliaia cerixyi, 

 Leptoaia duponclwli, C'olias liyale, Eiiodia dri/as, and Hlppan/tia briseis,, 

 specimens of the latter having been taken, so Mrs. R. Whittall tells me,, 

 near Dil Iskelessi. Should I return to Constantinople I hope to make 

 a few more additions to the local list in happier years. 



Notes on the Taxonomic Value of the Genital Armature in 

 Lepidoptera. 



By the Rev. C. R. N. BURHOWS, F.E.S. ' 



I myself executed (with one exception) the preliminary drawings 

 for all the figures in Mr. Pierce's Genitalia of the Geuiiietiidae. These 

 drawings were made by Camera Lucida, with the same apparatus and 

 the same Microscope objective throughout the series. Mr. Pierce and 

 I, in continuous consultation, completed the drawings. I passed his 

 ink drawings, with one exception, where we disagreed as to the obscure 

 details of an exceptionally complicated species. 



All this is to be read in the Preface to Mr. Pierce's Book. 



I share, therefore, with Mr. Pierce, Mr. Bethune-Baker's somewhat 

 severe condemnation, in the January Number of the Kntonioloyiat's 

 Record , oi thase same figures. I am quite sure that Mr. Bethune-Baker 

 did not mean to write harshly or unkindly, and I trust that he and 

 those Avho read this will acquit me of the smallest wish to be harsh or 

 unkind. 



I very earnestly deprecate the suggestion that we have drawn 

 " what he wants his readers to see," or " what does not exist in the 

 object," and further that our drawings depict '' a flattened and distorted 

 object." To the latter quotation I might retort "Tu quoque." I will 

 return to this subject. 



The proof of our honesty is in every collector's Imnd. To have 

 published fictitious drawings would surely have been foolishness of the 

 worst kind. 



