208 THK entomologist's record. 



There is also a long article on the "vexed question" Erebia euryale 

 and /'.'. liiiea which requires much further consideration than a mere 

 notice, in view of what has been done recently in breeding from the 

 Bgg, the crossing of Lapland and Alpine forms, and comparing of long 

 series of local races from many localities. 



We have received the Report of the Ilniihi/ ScJiool Natural History 

 Society for 1912, and note that it is the forty-sixth issue. The Society 

 does most praiseworthy work in training its members in scientific 

 methods, interesting them in varied branches of science, putting them 

 in the way of obtaining a knowledge of what has been done and what 

 remains to be done, and making them accustomed to use mutual 

 confidence and mutual aid in the furtherance of what they aim at. 

 The Society is divided into sections each with its special study ; 

 Botanical, Entomological, Geological, Zoological and other branches 

 each have their devotees, varying in number from year to year, but 

 carrying on faithfully the work and traditions of their predecessors. 

 The present secretary is Mr. D. A. J. Buxton, who is one of our occasional 

 contributors, and who with his brother Mr. P. A. Buxton gave an 

 account of a holiday in Greece some twelve months ago in the pages of 

 this magazine. There is an extensive list of the Lepidoptera observed 

 near Rugby in 1912, together with similar lists of the Neuroptera, 

 Trichoptera and Coleopfcera. In these lists all observations which have 

 not been verified in some reliable way are queried. This is as it should 

 be ; an example of strict scientific accuracy. We congratulate the 

 Society which has had successively such members as Messrs. A. F. 

 Hemming, P. A. Buxton, F.E.S., and D. A. J. Buxton. 



Our contributor, Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis, F.E.S., sends us a copy 

 of a paper by himself read before the Bournemouth Natural Science 

 Society " On Order and Method in forming Collections." It is roughly 

 divided into two sections, one dealing with Entomological, the other 

 Avian Collections, although the former contains many details, etc., that 

 apply to both, such as labelling and recording, upon which he lays 

 particular stress. He points out that all serious workers must use 

 both dissecting tools and microscope extensively, and remarks how 

 often variation is indicative philogenetically. 



We have just received the fourth and concluding portion of the 

 Cataloipie of the Lepidoptera of Xorthttiiiberlaiul, Durham, and Neiccastle- 

 on-Ti/ne. This work was commenced by the late J. E. Robson of 

 Hartlepool in 1899, when part I., containing the Rhopalocera, 

 Bombyces, Sphingids and Noctuids was issued. The Geometrid 

 portion appeared in 1902, and the Tortrices in 1905. After this date 

 Mr. Robson's health became too precarious to allow close continuous 

 work, and, subsequently to his death in 1907, the remaining M.S. 

 passed into the hands of his friend and co-worker John Gardner, 

 F.E.S. The latter gentleman has at length completed the last section 

 devoted to the Tineina and Pterophori. It has been a tedious and 

 difficult task owing to the few workers in the group and the often 

 uncertain determination of the captures. The part contains some 200 

 pages and includes a photograph of the late author with an appreciative 

 memoir. The original notes were all made under the supervision of 

 Mr. R. Bankes of Corfe Castle, the arrangement "failing any generally 

 accepted sequence " of species, is that of Stainton's ]\Ia)iiial. There is 



