164 THE entomologist's record. 



Attacid and Lachneid larval structures published in British Lepidoptera, 

 vol, iii. To this criticism Mr. Bacot sent a reply (loc. cit., xxxv., pp. 44- 

 47) maintaining the facts and offering to send Dr. Dyar the material 

 in hand for examination. In the current no. (April) of the same 

 magazine (pp. 88-89), after examination of the material sent by Mr. 

 Bacot, Dr. Dyar acknowledges Mr. Bacot's facts, and is " very willing 

 to acknowledge himself corrected," and he points out that the 

 characters exhibited by the larva of Afflia tau make the divisions of 

 his synoptic table (Tutt, Brit. Lep., iii., p. 272) stronger and sharper 

 than before, allying A[/lia more strongly than ever with Attacus and 

 Saturnia. This international method of work is the only true means 

 of obtaining uniform conclusions in our results, and of preventing the 

 apparently widely differing views sometimes held by equally good 

 workers on the same points and apparently on the same facts. 



The Societe Entomologique de Namur is publishing a Catalo(jne des 

 Lepidopteres de Behjiquc, for which Mr. L. J. Lambillion and Baron de 

 Crombrugghe de Picquendaele will be responsible. The catalogue 

 will contain information on the families, genera and species, will 

 indicate the time;-- of appearance, and their principal habitat, as well as 

 notes on the times when the larvae are to be found, their food- 

 plants, &c. The dozen parts (16 pages per part) are to cost five 

 francs, which should be sent to Mr. L. Naniot, Rue de Dave, Jambes, 

 Belgium. 



We have already made an appeal to our readers for descriptions of 

 ova, larvae (in their various stadia), and pupae of European butterflies, 

 for publication. To anyone who may be inclined to help we wish to 

 state that a large quantity of material may be obtained from Mr. A. 

 Voelschow, Schwerin, Mecklenburg. He offers, for example, eggs of 

 Mditaea athalia and M. dictijnna, two insects which are by many 

 doubted as distinct, a difficulty which could perhaps be settled by com- 

 parison ; ova of Brenthis selene, B. euphroai/ne and B. arsilache ; of 

 Epinephde Ujcaon and E. jurtina ; of Coenonympha ipJiis and C. tiphon ; 

 of ChriiAophaniis vin/aareae and C. phlaeas, &c. Which of the members 

 of the South London Entomological Society, who photograph ova so 

 excellently, will give us photographs and detailed descriptions of such 

 ova as are available ? 



Mr. T. A. Lofthouse publishes in The Procecdinga of the Cleveland 

 Naturalist's Field Club, a list of " Cleveland Lepidoptera in 1901," 

 with many additions to the local fauna, whilst Mr. M. L. Thompson 

 gives a list of " The Coleoptera observed in Cleveland " for the same 

 year. ^ 



We have received an excellent paper, The Net-icinf/ed Midges 

 (Blepharoceridae) of North America* by Mr. Vernon L. Kellogg. To 

 those who are acquainted with the author's work there is no need to 

 say that it is quite up to his usual excellent standard, with good 

 descriptions, details of the immature stages so far as they are known, 

 and disti'ibution notes. There are many points touched upon that 

 make the study of first importance to European, as well as to American, 

 lepidopterists. As a preliminary to a future monograph of the 

 Blepharocerids, as pointing out the work already done, and, still 

 more important, what yet remains to be done, the author is to be con- 



* Published at the Stanfoixl Universitv, California. 



