260 THE entomologist's record. 



difficulty. There is still room in the world for many Warrens before 

 the spade work of descriptive lepidopterology will be complete.— L.B. P. 



J^EVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Annual Report ami Proceed ini/>i of the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomolofiical Society, 1914, with three plates. — This Society still con- 

 tinues to keep up an active interest in entomology among its 95 mem- 

 bers although its meetings are only held during the six winter months. 

 There has been a special feature at each meeting of the session. Mr. 

 H. Donisthorpe communicated a paper entitled, " Some Associations 

 between Ants of different Species"; Mr. Wm. Mansbridge opened a 

 discussion "On the Increase on Melanism during recent years"; Prof. 

 Robt. Newstead gave a lecture " The Bionomics and Morphology of 

 some Bloodsucking Flies"; Mr. R. Wilding read -'Notes on some rare 

 and local Coleoptera"; Dr. P. F. Finne read a paper, " Insects con- 

 cerned in the Pollination of Plants"; and Mr. F. N. Pierce read his 

 Presidential Address, his subject being " The Hairs and Scales of 

 Lepidoptera." This last is prmted and illustrated with a plate. The 

 subject is really a bye product of Mr. Pierce's work in the investigation 

 of the genitalia of the British Lepidoptera, and is a most interesting 

 chapter in natural history. In another paper printed in the " Proceed- 

 ings " Mr. W. Mansbridge deals with the variation which occurs in 

 Tortrix costana, and introduces two new forms, one an extreme melanic 

 form taken and bred sparingly in Lancashire he names ab. Uverana, 

 and the other an intermediate form between ab. Uverana and the type, 

 which he names ab. intermedia. Mr. Mansbridge is compiling and 

 bringing up to date, a new edition of Dr. Ellis' List, " The Lepidop- 

 terous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire," the first portion of which, 

 comprising the Rhopalocera, is included in the present Report. We 

 do not wish to criticise too strongly, but if a List is to be brought up 

 to date as regards its facts, why not have its nomenclature also revised 

 in accordance with more modern views and not perpetuate the un- 

 authorised alterations, misspellings and so-called " corrections " of the 

 latter part of the Mid-Victorian period of Entomology, e.;/., Kuchloe 

 should be Euchlo'e, Leucophasia is now Leptosia, the old omnibus 

 Ar(jijnnis even in Hubner's time a hundred years ago did not include 

 paphia, nor did Vanessa include such incongruous species as c-albioii 

 and antiopa. Galatea was originally (jalathea, eijeria was ae(jeria, 

 hyperanthes was hyperantus, typhon was tiphon, phloeas should be phlaeas, 

 Lycoena should be Lycaena, a genus which, with its type arioji, cer- 

 tainly cannot contain aryns (aeyon) ; this omnibus genus has been 

 divided for many years past. .Eyon might have the synonym aryits 

 which is now widely considered to be the proper name, and thamiias 

 should be fiava. The new facts in the List and the comments on the 

 old records will be of the utmost use to all future students, and the 

 more of this kind of work which we get, the more light is thrown 

 upon the complicated problem of the distribution of the species. — 

 H.J.T. 



Corrections. — Report of London Natural History Society, page 

 212. I did not call these asymmetrical females of Ayriades coridon 

 ab. inaequalis, and I am not at all satisfied with them under this 

 heading. — C. P. Pickett (F.E.S.), 28, Colworth Road, Leytonstone. 



