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distribute to museums and societies copies of these newspapers, if any exist, as 

 I venture to suggest that very few libraries possess copies.* 



The remaining pages, 200-266, I have not read, and am unable to make any 

 comments thereon. 



Under the dates 1901 and 1906, Mr. Moultou refers to a " List of the Butter- 

 flies of Borneo," published in Journ. Str. Branch Roy. Asiatic Society by a 

 predecessor in the Curatorship of the Sarawak Museum, and siu-ely no more 

 ludicrous example of an entomological paper was ever printed. The title of 

 Part ii is " A List of the Butterflies of Borneo, and Nymphalinae." ! ! On 

 nearly every page are glaring errors, specific and generic names, incorrectly 

 spelt, and in some cases entirely changed [p. 110, sub-genus Cynitia is given as 

 Cnqnitial, [p. 125 genus Rhinopalpa is printed Khinopxpal. Author's names 

 mutilated [p. 90, line 7 from bottom, " de Nias," should be " de Niceville], and 

 perhaps, most laughable of all, when we notice one of the localities from which 

 the insects are stated to have come, we read of Mr. Kina Balu ! Of course, 

 these errors clearly show the lack of any care in correcting the proofs. — 

 Hamilton H. Druck, Ti-efusis Lodge, 3, Norfolk Koad, Regent's Park, N.W. : 

 December 2'Srd, 1915. 



Fire insects in Finland. — The following extract from a letter from the 



veteran Professor Dr. Jolin Sahlberg of Helsingfors, will interest tlie readers 



of this Magazine : — 



" I have been reading in a recent number of the ' Entomologist's Montlily 



Magazine' an account of the capture of Anchomemis quadripunctatus in England, 



and you will be interested to learn that in my own country this species is one 



of several that are almost or entirely peculiar to burnt woods and marshes. 



We found it at a distance of about 1 2 kilometres from the capital, ten or fifteen 



years ago, on a spot that had been burned black shortly before, on qviite a small 



area, and for four or five years in succession quite a number of this nice little 



Carabid were taken in spring and avitumn. Tlien it completely disappeared. 



In 1914, another little wood near the same spot was burned, and in the month 



of October the same year I again found this insect on the scorched trees, and in 



the spring and autumn of 1915 my pupils captured numerous examples. 



" There are other insects that make an abrupt appearance on these scorched 



places, e.g., Stephanopachys elongatus and substriatus, Laeniophloeus muticus, 



Coninomus carinatus, Sphaeriestes ater, and the much prized Pltryganophilus 



rujicollis; on the ground under Marchantia, Helophorus tuberc.ulatus, Micro- 



pcplus iesscrula and Stenus bilineatus ; also in a small Agarirus springing up on 



the spots that have been soaked with exudation from the trees we find Oxyporus 



mawierhciini. Amongst Hemiptera from these burned trees, we find Aradu$ 



laeviusculus, and the veiy rare A. signaticornis and anisotontus." 



Possibly Dr. Sahlberg's information may lead to the discovery of some of 



these species here. In the New Forest burned trees are usually cleared off very 



soon after the fire. — D. Sharp, Brockenhurst: January 8th, 1916. 



* According to Mr. Sliclford, Jourii. Str. JJranch lioy. Asiatic Soc, No. 41, p. SI, Mr. Hartlett 

 reprinted his list in the " Zoological Note Hook of Sarawak." Neither the library of the Entom- 

 ological Society of London, nor that of the liriti.sh Museum [S. Kensington], coiitains a copy of 

 these publications. 



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