80 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



the name of B. frit. He proposes abolishing the name/;*'/'/ and calling 

 the Bagous with long tarsi B. longitarsis and that with short tarsi B. 

 brevitarsis. 



We have to congratulate the Rev. G. M. A. Hewett on his little 

 pamphlet entitled "Bug-hunting." It is written in his usual racy and 

 interesting style. The collector who cannot learn something from this 

 must be very advanced indeed, and to those who want something in 

 popular style nothing better can be conceived. The notes are divided 

 into " Appliances, Breeding, Setting, Beating, Odds and Ends " etc. 

 It is written essentially for the Wmchester college " boys " (dare we 

 call them so?), but "boys" of an older growth will find much infor- 

 mation if they write to Messrs. Wells, College Street. Winchester for 

 "Bug-hunting." 



Another excellent article by our friend Mr. C. Fenn, called " Notes 

 on Collecting Tortrices (l"he pole system)," appears in the E.M.M. 

 for the current month. 



We are pleased to see that the theories advanced in the introduction 

 to The British Noducs a?id their Vars., vol. ii., to account for variation 

 in colour as the result of surplus energy, more or less developed in the 

 pupal stage, is likely to receive general support. The idea was sup- 

 ported by Mr. Jenner Weir at the South London Entomological Society 

 on March loth, and certain species of Satyrida, etc., exhibited in proof. 



It is with the greatest regret that we have to announce the death of 

 Mr. Francis Archer, one of the original members of the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomological Society, at Liverpool. He was an 

 excellent all-round naturalist, a man of kind and genial disposition, 

 and his loss will be especially felt in Liverpool, where his worth was so 

 well known. 



The monthly portrait in the British Naturalist is that of Miss 

 Eleanor Ormerod. A portrait of the late Mr. H. W. Bates is given 

 with this month's Entomologist, and one of the late Mr. Francis Archer 

 with the current number of The Naturalist. 



At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Aberdeen Natural History 

 Society on March 15th, Mr, W. Reid, F.E.S., read a paper on the 

 " Crambi of Scotland." 



We should be pleased if any of our readers could give us, from 

 foreign books or otherwise, descriptions of varieties of our British 

 species of Noctuai, not mentioned in vols. i. and ii. of The British 

 Noctua and their Varieties. We also particularly want the references 

 to Micra paula as a British species. 



The Annual Exhibition of The South London Entomological Society 

 will be held at the Bridge House, London Bridge, S.E,, on the 5th and 

 6th of May. On the 5th it will be open from 7 to 10.30 p.m. ; on the 

 6th from i to 10 p.m. Tickets for admission may be obtained from 

 Mr. Barker, F.E.S., 147, Gordon Road, Peckham, S.E. 



|OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Ammonia, Verdigris and Black Pins. — In Mr, Tutt's paper on 

 the Pterophoritia {Ent. Record, vol. iii., p. 32) he says : — " They should 

 always be killed with ammonia because of the importance of the legs 



