1900.] 61 



The forthcoming new edition of Staudinger's Catalogue. — " Im nachsten Jahre 

 [wohl gegen Ende, 1900] erscheint ein neuor grosser Catalog cler Lepidopteren des 

 Palaearktischen Faunengebiets, von Dr. O. Stavidinger und Dr. H. Rebel." 



This announcement, published in Lepidopteren-Liste, No. 43, will be welcome 

 news to those who have for years been patiently awaiting the issue of the long- 

 promised third edition. Having exhausted the available space on their interleaved 

 copies of the second edition, they have been obliged to gum in extra sheets, some of 

 which are also full to overflowing with MS. notes — such a copy is now before us ! 

 The appearance of a new edition will solve a problem which was beginning to cause 

 us serious anxiety. 



We shall await the appearance of this new edition with much curiosity. The 

 system of classification employed in the second edition can hardly be maintained. 

 With so many new schemes to choose from, which will be adopted ? Or, have Dr. 

 Staudinger and Dr. Rebel still a new one of their own ? 



Dr. Staudinger was responsible for Part I of the second edition : the accuracy 

 of this part is generally admitted, but Part II, by Dr. Wocke, abounds in errors of 

 commission and omission. The late M. Ragonot published a valuable commentary 

 on the Pyralidina and Tortricina in 1894, but even he had not the courage to deal 

 with the very numerous species of Linue, Fabricius, Hiibner, Bruand, &c., which 

 were entirely ignored by Dr. Wocke. If the second edition is to be merely brought 

 up to date, and issued as a third edition, it will be very valuable as a work of 

 reference, but no Catalogue of the European Lepidoptera will be considered satis- 

 factory which does not include references to the omitted names, even if the species 

 are not identified. We think the most difiicult part of the work which Dr. Rebel 

 has before him will be the correction of errors of citation and the identification of 

 species, the names of which have been allowed to lapse ; the mere intercalation of 

 references and species published since 1870 will be far simpler, but the examination 

 of the publications of small local societies and clubs will be a very tedious under- 

 taking. It is to be hoped that such an inconvenient error as that which necessitated 

 the insertion of p. 393 *'« will be avoided, and that the corrigenda will be printed 

 in the largest and most conspicuous type procurable, for even now one occasionally 

 meets with xylostella (used for cruciferarum), weaweri, Urodela, Myrmecocela, 

 Cochlophanes, Paraponyx, &c., and it has been pointed out that podalirius is an 

 older name than sinon ! We also hope that family and generic references will be 

 given in the new edition, togetlier with their synonymy and types. 



We must congratulate Dr. Staudinger on his courage [and "energy " — dare we 

 whixper the word ?] in undertaking the preparation of this new edition, and in 

 having obtained tlie collaboration of Dr. Rebel. — Walsingham and J. Hartley 

 DuRRANT, Merton Hall, Thetford : February, 1900. 



Tapinostola Bondii, Knaggn, in the north of France. — At the Meeting of the 

 Societe Entomologique de France on December 27th last, Mons. G. A. Poujade, of 

 the entomological department in the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, exhibited 

 a specimen of T. Bondii, taken on June 5th, 1899, at electric light at Chantilly 

 railway station, some 20 miles to the north of Paris. The locality tempts us to 

 suggest that it might have made a railway journey from the coast.— Eds. 



