854 THK ENTOMOLOrrlfST's REPORD. 



of Argynnis aglaia, varieties of Sat>/rus janira, &c." We suspect 

 the record should be : " Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited an aberration 

 of the female of Jrgi/nnis ar/laia, aberrations of Epinephele jurtina 

 {janira), &c." Varieties are local races, aberrations are casual 

 varieties occurring with the typical form. One can understand 

 the collector who does not know, and does not want to know, 

 anything about entomology, except how to make a collection, 

 using haphazard and inaccurate modes of expression, but there is no 

 reason for our premier society to publish such. We would also ask 

 what scientific value such a record as the above has if the nature of 

 the variation of the aberrant A. aulaia and /','. jurtiita (janira) be 

 not noted. 



The casual record of lepidoptera that do not belong to the British 

 fauna, as being seen or captured in the British Isles by collectors 

 whose names are not familiar to British lepidopterists and without 

 any details except the fact of their being seen or captured, has been 

 far too frequent in our more or less authoritative magazines. Most of 

 these records are due to want of knowledge, others are due to mistakes 

 and other causes. Pafnassins apolln at Dover, P. delius in Wales, 

 Chrysophanus hippothoe, in Sussex, SyrtrhthHn alveiis in East Anglia, 

 Hyles [Celerio) enpliorhiae at Harwich, and other cases will immediately 

 occur to our readers. We now read : " Mr. Sloper exhibited a specimen 

 of Lycaeiia hylas, caught at Dover on the 7th September last." 

 (Eeport of meeting of Ent. Soc. of London, October 15th, 1902.) 

 Was there no discussion of this exhibit or were there no lepidopterists 

 present ? We had not heard previously of the capture before 

 exhibition, the record does not say who caught the specimen 

 nor does it give any details of the conditions under Avhich the 

 specimen was captured, all of which are important from the 

 scientific standpoint and in the interests of an accurate knowledge 

 of the distribution of species. One would like to have known, 

 for scientific purposes, the home of the ? parent of a Dover Itylas, 

 where she lived and where she died, and where the rest of her family 

 lived and died, i.e., whether an immigrant or not. We believe the 

 specimen was accurately named. 



Herr Gillmer, contemporaneously with the appearance of vol. iii 

 of Tutt's BritifiJi Lepidoptera, has worked out {Iiisecten-Bdrse, xix., pp. 

 223 et seq., July 17th, 11)02) the literary history of Auwrpha pnpnli ab. 

 treuudae, Bkh. (1793), and has come to the only tenable conclusion, 

 namely, that Bartel was wrong in renaming the form in question on 

 account of its collision with the newer trenndae, Fisch. v. Wald. He 

 adds that Bartel has fallen into a further error in uniting the albinistic 

 ab. borkJiauseni {trenndae, Bkh.) with a much darker form described 

 by Herr Caradja, simply because both lack the rust-coloured spot at 

 the base of the hindwings, for this latter is hardly an aberration 

 except for Roumania, where A. popnli is nearly always li(iht (jrey in 

 colour. Herr Gillmer has had a photograph of Koch's specimen of 

 ab. tremulae prepared, and hopes to publish it shortly. 



In the Ent. ]\Io. Man. f^^i' September last, in a note on " Bhizntroiius 

 acliraeeus confirmed as British," Dr. Sharp writes that he heard from 

 Cornwall that a ItJiizotroj/iis was flying in the daytime, and knowing 

 from "continental" experience that this is the habit of li. ochraceiis, 

 he thought it might be this species, and siu-h turned out to be the case. 

 We do not see that this beetle requires confirmation as British, though, 



