24 THE entomologist's record. 



@^URRENT NOTES. 



The followino- is the list of Officers and Council appointed by the 

 South London Entomological and Natural History Society for the 

 current year: — President: W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. Vice-Presidents: 

 A. Sich, F.E.S. , and A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. Treasurer: T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. Librarian: A. W. Dods. Curator: W. West (CT/Tt'H^n'c-//). Hon. 

 Secretaries : Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., etc. {('orn'nj'ondim/), and H. J. 

 Turner, F.E.S. (lleportinn). Council: R. Adkin, F.E.S.,"S. R. Ashby, 

 F.E.S., E. C. Joy, F.E.S., H. Main, F.E.S., A. M. Montgomery, 

 F.E.S., R. A. R. Priske, F.E.S., and B. H. Smith. 



Dr. D. Sharp notes [Knt. Mo. Ma<i.) the capture of Proteinns 

 rrcnitlotiis, Pand., at Nethy Bridge, in 1906 and 1907, making the 

 whole of the five European species of I'mteinus British. 



Dr. Norman H. Joy adds Kpipeda nijiricmis, Thoms. (Blair Atholl, 

 September 5th, 1909), Latlirobimii dibitiDii, Erchs. (Dalwhinnie, 

 October, 1909, and Loch Ericht, September 20th, 1909), and I'iti/n- 

 !/enes trepaiiatiis, Nord. (Blair Atholl, September 3rd, 1909). 



Mr. W. E. Sharp records the capture of Diestota testarai, Kraatz 

 (D. iiiai/eti, Muls. et Re}'), an exotic species originally described from 

 the East Indies, at Shirley. 



Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright adds Setida i/rinea, Mg., to the 

 Tachinids of Britain, from specimens taken by himself, August -Ith, 

 near New Milton, Hants, and by Mr. A. H. Hamm, near Oxford. 



Mr. Eustace R. Bankes shows cause [Eiit. Mo. Matj.) for consider- 

 ing (ii'lechia vicinella, Douglas, and (J. leucoiiwlanella, Zell., cospecific. 

 This has been a very general opinion among micro- lepidopterists for 

 many years; we suggested it [Ent., xx., p. 294) more than 22 years 

 ago, after going through Stainton's series with its owner, and without 

 knowing that Zeller had made the same suggestion 20 years before 

 that. Mr. Bankes, after a very thorough discussion of the literature, 

 deals with the Stainton specimens, and makes a point (p. 206) of the 

 arrangement of the specimens in the collection iinder the two names, 

 particularly the Ragonot specimens. There is no doubt that the labels 

 truly represented Stainton's opinion of the specimens in 1879 and 1885, 

 written when the two sets of insects were respectively received, but 

 one doubts whether Stainton did not later fully appreciate that these 

 were referable to one species. At any rate, he discussed the matter 

 fully with the present writer in 1887, and, although then still inclined 

 to look on the white markings as in some measure diagnostic, he had 

 already thrown over any doubt as to the two lots of Ragonot specimens 

 being specifically different, and it is only fair to state that, when, on a 

 later visit, the question of these Gelechias was again discussed, 

 Stainton had practically ceased to believe there was any differential 

 characters between the supposed species. He would no doubt have 

 supported Mr. Bankes' opinion of these tAvo insects being co-specific 

 most whole-heartedly. 



A tremendous book, weighing several pounds, is Indian inject Life, 

 by H. Maxwell-Lefroy, M.a!, assisted by F. M. Howlett, B.A., published 

 under the authority of the Government of India, and to be obtained 

 from Thaeker and Co., 2, Creed Lane, London. The preface, under 

 the title of " Acknowledgments," states that the work has been done 

 entirely in India, and most of the plates by native artists. The scheme 

 of classification is set forth in a sort of Index, and after the intro- 

 ductory chapters, the Orders are dealt with in the following sequence — 



