6 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S HECORD. 



the Entomologist one notices an attempt to work out some phases of 

 the variation of the genus Erehia upon the lines of the work of 

 Galton, and one wonders whether the articles will further lead us into 

 the mathematical intricacies (without doubt valuable, but somewhat 

 abstruse to the general reader) of Karl Pearson's Grammar of Science. 



I have not had time to analyse the multitude of continental and 

 American periodical literature, but I judge from an examination of 

 Friedlander's very useful Entomoloiiiache Littcratnrhliittcr, as well as of 

 the magazines placed on the table at the meetings of the Entomological 

 Society of London, that they have contained comparative little of special 

 value to the lepidopterist, and I am not competent to pronounce on 

 the value of that relating to other orders. The principal Eoumanian 

 scientific society has published a two hundred-page list of the Macro- 

 lepidoptera of the country, by E. Fleck, and this was closely followed 

 by a " Micro " list from the pen of Caradja, already well-known for 

 his writings in Iris. Iris, which has very inconveniently changed its 

 title again, being now called Deiitsclie Entotnohujische ZeitscJirift : 

 LcpitliiptrroloijiscJu' Heftc, hardly keeps up its high character since the 

 editorship passed from Staudinger, but is still a very useful publication 

 to lepidopterists. In one or two other of the German papers, the well- 

 known Esthonian lepidopterist, Huene, has been amusing himself by 

 describing and naming aberrations of pala?arctic Heterocera, with the 

 same easy-going disregard for the previous Avork of nomenclators, 

 which Mr. Tutt has had occasion to criticise in another connection in 

 a recent number of the liecord. The naming of aberrations is not 

 without its manifest uses (provided it be not carried to such over- 

 minute detail that it be impossible for the possessor of one aberration 

 to name it without possessing the complete series of forms for com- 

 parison), but surely it should not be undertaken by those Avho have 

 not taken the trouble to overhaul the literature already dealing with 

 the subject. Let us hope that the appearance of the new edition of 

 Staudinger will do something to stem the tide of duplications in 

 nomenclature ; although it is to be feared its inadequate citation of 

 Tutt's Uritish Xoctuae will leave much room for the evil to grow in 

 that family. 



Of separate works, several of imiwrtance are still in progress, and 

 have made some headway during 1901. The third volume of Hamp- 

 son's " magnum opus " is amongst these, and deals with the remainder of 

 the Arctiadae and with Agaristiilae. I presume Moore's Lej/idojitcra 

 Indira is still in progress, but I do not remember to have seen any new 

 parts during the present year ; of Grose-Smith's Ehojialocera E.iotica, 

 part 56 has appeared. Barrett's British Lcpidoptera is still making- 

 slow progress, the family now under consideration being the Laren- 

 tiadac. Miss Sharpe's Monoi/rajdi of the Gentis Teracdus has also 

 advanced by at least three parts, and Kift'arth has completed his 

 revision of Helicnnius, which I ought to have mentioned under the 

 heading of periodicals (/if'/-/. Ent. Zcit., 1901). The first lepidoptero- 

 logical part of Das Tierreich, namely, Pagenstecher's Eibi/thridae, 

 appeared early in the year, and bas been noticed in the Entoiiudogist's 

 Record. 



But the most generally important new book of the year has been 

 the long-awaited Catalog of Staudinger and Rebel ; as I am discussing 

 this rather fully in the pages of the i-:nt. llccord, and as some of you have 



