274 THE entomologist's record. 



than of the latter species, Mr. Capper promises to let Mr. Prout 

 examine the specimen, so that we hope to issue a further notice. In 

 the meantime, doubtful II. strii/ata, from downs and open places, 

 should be carefully examined. 



The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows (Mucking Vicarage, Essex), who is 

 preparing for publication a paper on (ievnietra papilinnaria, asks for 

 information concerning the variation (published or otherwise) of this 

 species. Any other interesting information regarding habits of the 

 species in any stage would also be welcome. 



Baron de Combrugghe de Picquendaele gives (Ann. dc la Soc. Ent. 

 lie Bel;/., xlvii., p. 270) an interesting note on the larva of OMIirenUs 

 liifasviana, which he says is full-fed about mid-May, pupation taking 

 ]ilace from then to mid-June, freshly-emerged imagines being taken 

 in early July. 



Mr. A. H. Clark writes {<'a)i. Ent., xxxv., p. 219 et se/j.) an 

 interesting paper, entitled " A supposed migration of Pieridae, 

 witnessed in Venezuela in the summer of 1901." It should be 

 referred to by all interested in the subject of geographical distribu- 

 tion, although parts of it appear to be written very markedly from the 

 human standpoint. 



Mr. August Busck gives us A Iu'risio)i of the Awerican Maths of tlie 

 Eainibj (icU'rliiidai' nith Dcsirifitions of Xeir Sjiecics:.] This pamphlet 

 collects together, from various sources, the American Gelechiid species 

 that have been described, with some critical notes thereon, and wiU 

 form an excellent basis for future work. At the same time, it illus- 

 trates amazingly from the natural history, apart from the literary, 

 standpoint, the present state of our ignorance with regard to the 

 American Gelechiid fauna. Just as, in Britain, we expect little or no 

 real natural history to issue from our professional entomologists at 

 the Natural History Museum, so we cannot expect much natural 

 history to come from the professional entomologists attached to 

 the various agricultural stations throughout the United States. 

 That we occasionally, in England, and more frequently in 

 America, get a great deal more than we have a right to expect, 

 does not alter the general fact, and we are still waiting for the 

 leisured amateurs in America to make a detailed study of the life- 

 histories of these insects, in the same way as did Stainton here, not 

 haphazard, one species now and again when chance throws eggs or 

 larvje in one's way, but systematically, continuously, and as a labour 

 of love ; only in this way shall we learn anything of the life-histories 

 of the (ielechiids of North America, of which Mr. Busck has so care- 

 fully catalogued their names, and described the imagines. In a work 

 like this, in which many new species are described on imagines only, 

 the life-histories being unknown, good figures would have been a 

 great boon. 



Mr. Hans Hirsch describes {Verh. der k.k. --.ool.-hot. Gessel. in Wien, 

 liii., p. 270) a new form of Ereirft arefiades, under the name dcimiicta. 



We are pleased to see that Mr. Gillmer has taken up the scientific 

 description of lepidopterous eggs. He has given us the first detailed 

 one that we remember having seen done by a German lepidopterist, 

 rii., that of Eirbia i/larialis, in the Sodetas Entomolo(iica, xviii., p. 74. 



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