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article " The Tephrosia tangle" {Ent. Rec, viii., pp. 76 et seq.). His 

 conclusions were really very simple, viz., that Tephrosia bistortata, 

 Goeze = the crepnscnlaria of the British list, whilst Tephrosia 

 crepuscnlaria, Hb. = hiiindularia, Esp., and the biundulnria of the 

 British list, so that the insect we had hitherto called crespnrtdaria, became 

 bistortata, and the one we had called biinuhdaria, became crepnscnlaria. 

 He further pointed out that the former species was doublebrooded ; 

 that the first brood was the abietaria of Haworth, Stephens, Doubleday, 

 etc., whilst the second brood was the consonaria oi Haworth, Stephens, 

 and Wood, whilst the dark black-brown form of this species was ab. 

 passetii, Thierry-Mieg. The latter species, it was pointed out, was single- 

 brooded, and its two dark forms were known as ab. delamerensis, White, 

 and ab. nigra, Thierry-Mieg. 



This was followed up by an extensive article, " A critical resume 

 of the arguments for and against Tephrosia bistortata {crepi(scularia), 

 and 2 . crepuscidaria {biundularia) being considered distinct species," 

 which was commenced in the Ent. LVc, viii.,pp. 281 et seq. ,d,ndi continued 

 in vol. ix., pp. 6 et seq., 28 etseq., 55 et seq. This, in its turn, was supple- 

 mented by a further series of articles by Mr. W. Hewett, Ent. Bee, 

 vol. ix., pp. 107 et seq.; by notes on their eggs {Ent. Rec, ix., pp. 149 

 et seq.); by hybrid experiments between the species, by Dr. Riding and 

 Mr. Bacot [Ent. Rec, ix., pp. 149 et seq.), the details of which we our- 

 selves summarised, and which were in due course published in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Further notes 

 were published on the distribution of these species in England, 

 Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Ent. Record, vol. x., also 

 further hybridity experiments, until, at last, we could no longer 

 find room for the notes and papers that our contributors continued to 

 send us on the species, all of which, however, went to prove the 

 conclusions arrived at in the "Critical resume" already referred to. 



It follows, therefore, that there is no need whatever for the merest 

 tyro ever to go wrong over these species or their names. If it happens, 

 it must be entirely due to a failure to appreciate the fact that every 

 lepidopterist of standing uses T. bistortata as the name for the double- 

 brooded species, and T. crepuscidaria (biundidaria) as the name of the 

 single-brooded species. We have no space to discuss the rights and 

 wrongs of the matter, or individual opinions on the species. The facts 

 of their life-histories and their names have already been fully published, 

 and are at the disposal of every lepidopterist who cares to borrow the 

 necessary literature from the library of the society to which he belongs. 

 At the same time we quite exonerate the secretary from participation 

 in the error. 



Mr. R. Verity has published a most interesting paper {Boll. del. 

 Soc. Ent. Italiana, 1908) on the Rhopalocera of the Isle of Elba. This 

 little island seems to have produced 42 species during his visit (July, 

 1908). The most interesting species are perhaps Goneptery.r cleopatra, 

 Charaxes jasius, Dryas pandora, Hipparchia neowijris, Coenonympha 

 corinna, Bithys qitercus, Lampides boeticiis, Raytvardia telicanus, and 

 Gegenes nostrodamus. Thymeliciis acteon is noted as abundant every- 

 where. He further gives details of the most productive spots in the 

 island for collecting purposes. 



The meeting of the Entomological Society, held on March 15th, 

 was particularly well-attended, lepidopterists turning up strongly to 



