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Valve or Clasp ( = "Haipe" of Smith and Pierce). — The two lateral 

 outer appendages ( = " Harpago " of Buchanan-White). 



Harpc (^"Clasper" of Smith and Pierce). — The inner hook- 

 like armature of the " valve," arising from or near the base of the 

 same. 



I'ncHs. — The hook-like dorsal appendage of segment xiii., the 

 teirninal segment. 



.'ScaphiiDii. — The process arising immediately ventral to the " uncus " 

 and the anal opening. 



Rinfuvall or Penis funnel ( = "Juxta" of Pierce). — The chitinous 

 cone at the base of the valves from which the " Penis " protrudes. 



Penis or JF.d(m(fHs. — A strongly chitinized rod-like structure 

 projecting from the " penis funnel." (Strictly speaking, this is only 

 the distal end of the organ.) 



Vesica. — The "ductus ejaculatorius," or membranous eversible 

 inner tube of the chitinous penis-rod. 



Saccus.—k medio-ventral chitinous sac projecting forward into the 

 abdomen, attached to the anterior margin of segment xii. 



We are pleased to see that Dr. Malcolm Burr, one of our colleagues 

 on the staff of the magazine, has just been made an honorary 

 member of the Societe Entomologique Namuroise. This active Society 

 was founded some fifteen years ago and contains a number of very good 

 workers, among whom we note particularly M. L. J. Lambillion and 

 Baron de Crombrugghe. It issues a Revue Mensuelle containing an 

 abstract of the proceedings at its meeting and the more important 

 papers read. Our late Editor was one of its honorary members. This 

 Society quite deserves the repute it has gained in the opinion of 

 continental entomologists. 



In the number for May 13th of the EntomnUuiisclie Zeitschrift is 

 commenced a most important series of articles entitled " Gynandro- 

 morphons Macro-Lepidoptera of the Pala?arctic Fauna." We note with 

 regret that the author, Oscar Schultz passed away almost immediately 

 after sending his M.S. for publication. It would appear that this is 

 the sixth series of articles published by this author on the same subject 

 since 1896. They comprise a descriptive account of every Gynandro- 

 morph, which it has been possible to trace, among the Pal^arctic 

 Macro-Lepidoptera. 



Series I. began in the lllustrierten Wochenschrift fur Entoviolof/ie, 

 vol. i., Neudamm, 1896. 



Series 11. began in the same magazine, vol. ii., 1897. 



Series III. began in the same magazine, vol. iii., 1898. 



Series IV. was published in the Berliner Entonioloi/ischen Zeitschrift 

 vol. xlviii. pp. 71-116, 1904. 



Series V. began in the Entoviohx/ische Zeitschrift vol. xx.. No. 

 19, etc., 196. 



It was thought that the above references would be useful to those 

 interested in the subject. All work of this kind, the collecting of 

 scattered information and facts, is most useful to the worker, but such 

 classificatory work takes an enormous amount of time and is almost 

 an impossibility if only needed as one of the subordinate portions of 

 the work one may be engaged upon. 



A long series of very detailed critical notes and considerations of 

 aught that pertains to European Lycaenidae is appearing week by week 



