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contain fnll references to practically all previoiis literature affecting Bornean 

 Rhopalocera. In one of them, as Mr. Drv^ce knows very well, I have made con- 

 tinual reference both to his valuable memoirs and personal help which he was 

 kind enough to give me at the time. And I have no hesitation in repeating 

 that withovit his papers and help I should not have been able to do justice to 

 that portion of the Bornean list, writing, as I was then, in Borneo. The 

 remaining two papers in my bibliography are given because they appeared in 

 1913 and 1915, and so escaped mention in the papers published before those dates. 



If anyone who wishes to take up the study of Bornean Rhopalocera will 

 take the trouble to refer to the papers given in my bibliography, I think he 

 will find himself introduced, directly or indirectly, to a very large propoi'tion of 

 all the literature on the subject. Need a bibliography do more ? 



Mr. Druce calls attention to my error of attribiiting the authorship of 

 " Schmetterlinge das Inseln Philipjjiuisclien " to Stavidinger instead of Semper. 

 The error is certainly regrettable, but I think obvious to most people who are 

 oonversant with the literature on the Rhopalocera of that part of the world. 

 Perhaps, as an extenuating circumstance, I may be allowed to plead the excuse 

 of natural worry, caused at that time by hurried preparations for a complete 

 severance from the peaceful piu'suits of miiseum life in order to plunge into the 

 very different military life. 



Mr. Druce's concluding paragraph of criticism runs to some twelve lines of 

 ill-considered remarks on misprints at the expense of one who is dead. Surely 

 not in the best of taste ; and hardly in consonance with the words of Laboxilbene, 

 which the cover of the Ent. Mo. Mag. bears so proudly : — " J' engage done 

 tous a eviter dans leurs ecrits toute personnalite, toute allusion depassant les 

 limites de la discussion la phis sincere et la plus courtoise." 



In defence of the late Mr. Shelford, whose entomological reputation is too 

 sound to need any other support of mine, I may say that, in the copy of this 

 particular paper which he gave me, he underlined most of the printer's errors 

 and wrote on the front page — " I was never allowed to see the proofs ! R. S." 

 At the first opportunity, i.e., in the next number of the same journal, Mr. Shel- 

 ford published a full list of errata. 



Those who have had anything to do with printers in the East will sympathize 

 with the feelings of the author wlio thus found his work issued to the public in 

 such a mutilated form, and who knew that he had been powerless to prevent it. 

 — J. C. MouLTON, 4th Wiltshire Regiment, Chanbattia, United Provinces, 

 India: April 16th, 1916. 



Entomological notes from the trenches in France. — The following stray 

 notes, mostly relating to Coleoptera and Hemiptera, are quotations from letters 

 received during the last few months from Mr. P. Harwood, who is serving in 

 the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers : — 



30.ix.l5. N. of France. — Silpha obscura was in abundance in certain of the 

 trenches about three weeks ago. I noticed several feeding on slugs. I put 

 four in a box with an equal number of Carahus monilis, and on opening the box 



