I 



REVIEWS. 289 



colour with the markings standing out in relief as if put on lightly 

 with a crayon. 



We read in the Kntomohuiical Neim for July that the system now 

 used in the U.S. National Museum for arranging the insect collection 

 consists of cork-lined trays of various sizes for each species, so that 

 when re-arrangement takes place an entire species can be handled at 

 one time, instead of only one specimen as heretofore. This, of course, 

 could not be done if the drawers were glass-bottomed, as in all the 

 newer cabinets in our British Museum. Even in these latter cabinets 

 it is quite possible, with care, to remove rows at a time, if a stand or 

 empty drawer be at hand to temporarily hold the removed rows. 

 Some years ago we remember seeing a home-made cabinet (not glass- 

 bottomed) in which the cork was fixed to moveable slips pinned 

 down to the bottom of the drawer. 



To those entomologists interested in the Lepidopterous Fauna of 

 Bosnia and Herzegovina we would call attention to the series of 

 articles contributed by Dr. Karl Schawerda to the IVr/t. k.k. zoo. -hot. 

 Gcsel. Wicn, of which the last appears on page 141 et scq. of the present 

 year's issue, as a lesult of a three weeks' visit paid by himself and his 

 friends — Dr. Karl Schima and Baurates Hans Kautz — to the moun- 

 tainous area bordering on the Montenegrin territory. Dr. Schawerda 

 has also included the results of the work of Herr Josef Janecko, who 

 collected for him over the same ground in the spring and autumn. 

 The articles previously written will be found in the Verh., 1906, pp. 

 650-652; 1908, pp. (250-256); 1908, Jahres. Wn. Ent. TV., pp. 85- 

 126; 1910, Verh., pp. (19-34) and pp. (90-93); 1911. pp. (80-90) and p. 

 (175); 1912, pp. (112-116), p. 122, pp. (138-148). 



Ji^EYIEWSAND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society. — 1912. 154-(-xx. pp. 10 Plates. 4s. 6d. Published 

 by the Society at their Rooms, Hibernia Chambers, London Bridge. 

 — This volume of 174 pages with ten black and white plates is half 

 as big again as the " Proceedings " for the previous year, when 

 there were only four plates. That such a Society can afford to produce 

 so pretentious a volume shows strong enthusiasm coupled with strict 

 econom}'', for according to the balance sheet the income is only just 

 over sixty pounds per annum. Of the papers published two are by 

 Mr. R. Adkin — •" Varietal Names as applied to the British Lepidoptera" 

 and "Labelling Entomological Specimens." With the former we are 

 largely at one with the author. The difficult point is what forms 

 ought to be named and what not. All proved geographical forms 

 certainly should be named and all strongly marked aberrations, -we 

 hold, should be named if recurrent. From the utility point of view it 

 is doubtful if any good purpose is served by naming a unique 

 aberration, unless it conies under one of Mr. Adkin's general names such 

 as obscnra, or riifa, etc. With Mr. Adkin's second short paper on 

 "Labelling Entomological Specimens," we are in agreement entirely 

 when he asks for each individual specimen to be labelled with exact 

 data. But in asking all and sundry to till in the counties and vice- 

 counties of the Watson ian map we see trouble. Errors would be as 

 plentiful as blackberries. We should much prefer to leave the matter 

 to a careful collector and compiler of the individual records. Mr. A. 



