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the garden at Kincraig, Invergorden, in June ; and from the same 

 locality : — Adhinia hipinictidactyla, flying amongst marshy ground on 

 August 10th, 1909 ; Grapholitha nisella, on September 23rd, 1909 ; 

 Faedisca sordidana, on November 9th, 1909 ; Tortricodes hyemana, 

 reared in March, 1909, from a larva feeding on oak the previous 

 year ; and Atewelia torquatella, flying over a boggy heath on June, 

 6th, 1908. At Swordale, the following were taken : — (Hiortodes arctioxa, 

 on July 18th, 1909 ; Haqiipteryx xylostella, reared on July 14th, 1909; 

 Gracilaria aiirofiuttella, first imago reared on May 27th, 1909, from 

 pupa found during April in folded leaves of Bypencnni pnlchniin ; 

 Coleojihora laricclla, reared on July 14th, from a larva found dangling 

 on a silken thread from the branches of PIukh sylvestris, on May 2nd, 

 1909 ; Sclireckensteina featalliella, flying amongst heather and Ruhus 

 chaDiaeinorus on the moor, on May 28th, 1908 ; Gracilaria atifpnatella, 

 taken in May, 1908 ; and Micropteryx atireatella, swept from 

 Vacciniuia niyrtillus, on June 4th, ]908. During 1909 the following 

 were taken : — Kphippiphora trigeminana, flying over waste ground near 

 the sea at Tarbat Ness, on July 12th ; Sirammerdamia pyrella, reared 

 on July 11th, from a larva taken at Loch Achelty, Strathpefier, in the 

 previous October; Prays curtisellm, Dingwall, July 5th; Gelechia 

 fayitirella, Aberfeldy, July 24th ; and Biiccnlatrix dewaryella, beaten 

 from birch at the Conon Falls, Strathpeffer, on June 23rd. 



Japanese Work on Dermaptera." 



By MALCOLM BUER, D.Sc, F.E.S. 



(I) MatsiDinira, S., and Shiraki, T., "Monographie der Forficuliden 

 Japans" [Journ. Sapporo A'/ric. Coll., vol. ii., pt. 2, pp. 75-86, 

 figs. 1-3, 1905). 



(II) Shiraki, T., "Neue Forficuliden Japans" (Tr. Sapporo X. H. 

 Sac, vol. i., pp. 91-96, taf. iii., 1905). 



(III) Shiraki, T., " Neue Forficuliden und Blattiden Japans " {<jp. 

 cit., vol. i., pt. 2, pp. 1-14, 1905-6). 



(IV) Shiraki, T., " Neue Blattiden und Forficuliden Japans " {op. 

 cit., vol ii., pp. 103-111, 1907). 



When a man buys a new motor car he does not enter for big 

 competitions until he has learned to drive, for a knowledge of the 

 functions of the various levers will not save him from accident until 

 experience and practice have rendered manipulation instinctive. The 

 mere possession of a new horse does not teach a man to ride, and if he 

 enters for a jumping competition in an International Horse Show, he 

 will probably come to grief, especially if his horse be difficult to ride. 

 In the same way, the mere possession of a new monograph of any 

 group of insects does not qualify the owner to be a systematist until he 

 has spent several years in special study and familiarised himself with 

 the degree of variation and relative value of the characters employed. 

 Acquaintance, too, with the pre-existing literature is also an essential. 



It is a plaintive lament of that great entomologist, Brunner von 

 Wattenwyl, that the publication of his wonderful Prodromus der 

 europaeischen Orthopteren was the signal for the appearance of a flood of 

 local faunistic lists of species, which were generally full of errors. But 



* This review appeared first in Eussiau in the Revue russe d'Entomologie, 

 1909, p. 335. 



