122 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



greatly exaggerated, probably now. This was bred from the larvfp of 

 Albarracina knrbi we took, all of which were stung by it. The tly 

 mentioned on p. 72 is Laphria ijibbom, L. 



{To be concluded.) 



A Proposed New Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera. 



ISv LOTIS I!. riUKT, F.E.S. 

 The inconvenience which has arisen from the fragmentary nature 

 of the work of revision of the nomenclature of the lepidoptera, and 

 the difficulty of access to the sources of the various corrections, must 

 have been felt by all serious students of the order. The appearance of 

 the new edition of Staudinger's Catalni/m' containing very many 

 important corrections, has further accentuated the inadequacy of 

 South's " Entomologist " list, which was to a large extent adapted 

 from edition 2 (1<S71), and the many monographic revisions of 

 particular families by JJritish and American authors, together with 

 the biological discoveries of Dr. Chapman, Mr. JJacot and others, have 

 still further increased the urgency of the need of a new reference list 

 of the British species. It has not been found feasible to carry out to 

 any large extent the editorial suggestion in the F.iitdindUujht'x ivrnnl, 

 xii., p. 252, partly owing to the comparative inaccessibility of the 

 Transactions of t/ic ( 'iti/ <>/ Loiulov Kntoiiioloijical Sncietij, partly owing 

 to the incompleteness of the London Fauna, therein catalogued, and 

 partly to the haste with which some parts of the list were compiled, 

 which necessitated in many cases the following of supposed 

 " authorities," without completely testing them. The conflicting 

 methods upon which these authorities have been working, have also, 

 to some extent, influenced the revision which has thus far been carried 

 out by the " Nomenclature Revision Committee "' of the North London 

 Natural History Society, not to mention the fact that the Committee 

 has not yet attempted to publish anything beyond a first list of changes 

 which seemed urgent in view of the discrepancies between our 1 British 

 books {riilr, h'liloni., xxxii., pp. ^JJ-GH). The only remedy for the 

 present comlition of chaos seems to He in a. tliorough and leisurely 

 revision of the whole nomenclature upon a hxed code of laws, which 

 will, so far as possible, work automatically, so that the results obtained 

 may be comparatively permanent. If sufficient financial support can 

 be obtained, the writer of this note and his collaborators will gladly 

 carry out this work, for which a great deal of the necessary material 

 is already in hand ; and as Mr. J. Hartley Durrant has the so-called 

 " Micro " families so well in hand, and has expressed his sympathy 

 with our object, there is some hope that at no very distant date the 

 needful assistance may be within the reach of our working lepi- 

 dopterists. 



Condition of Laciineis lanestris during the pupal state (April, 1902). 



By T. A. CHAP.MAX, M.l;., F./.S.. I'.K.S. 

 Thi' facts on this subject tlnit I had obserxed up to the lime ihey 

 were written, will be found Kni. Urmril, xol. xiii.. \)\). 24;-)-2K4, li)()L 

 111 the last of these notes 1 dealt with some English pupa', kuidly sent 

 me by ]\Ir. A. Russell. These afforded eleven pupte on August 14th, 

 1901, that were (juite undeveloped, these ai'e noted below. There 



