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death. This beetle may be found in similar localities to A. oblongo- 

 gutta/a, and frequently in company with it. {To be contitmed.) 



Entomological Publications by the Linn^an and Zoological 

 Societies of London {ante, p. 52). — In your editorial note, in 

 reply to my mention of Mr. Poulton's paper on the " Morphology of 

 the Lepidopterous Pupa," you take exception to the publications of 

 entomological papers in the Traiisactions of the Zoological and Linncean 

 Societies. It seems to me, however, that there are several good reasons 

 for this, and that they are not very far to seek. In the first place, 

 the Entomological Society is not as wealthy as the Linnjean and 

 Zoological Societies, and could not possibly take all the papers on 

 entomological subjects which would be offered, if the above-named 

 societies did not accept such papers. The Entomological Society's 

 subscription is a very moderate one, and if more of our entomologists 

 joined it, its publishing power would attract papers which now go 

 elsewhere. A second reason is that the Linnsean and Zoological 

 Societies would have no right to the names they bear, if they excluded 

 one important section of the animal kingdom ; for be it observed, that 

 one series of the Linnsean Society's Transactions and Proceedings is 

 devoted to Zoology, and the other to Botany. By this breadth of 

 field they are able to take in branches which have no society specially 

 to bring them forward — Conchology, for instance. Another reason, 

 and the one which particularly applies to the paper in question, is 

 that the Entomological Society's Transactions are in octavo form only, 

 whilst the Lmnsean and Zoological Societies publish theirs in quarto. 

 This, in a paper such as Mr. Poulton's, is of paramount importance, as 

 it is illustrated by numerous and highly enlarged figures, quite unsuitable 

 for an octavo page. Beside 14 woodcuts in the text, the paper has 

 two plates, bearing respectively 32 and 34 figures, varying from the 

 natural size of the object represented, to a magnificationof 50 diameters. 

 Until a very large accession of Entomologists to its ranks, enables the 

 Entomological Society to bring out some of its publications in quarto, 

 such papers as this, to say nothing of those requiring the figures of 

 large insects, Westwood's Castniidcs or Butler's Revision of the 

 SphingidcR, for example, must continue to find their way to the 

 Linnsean or Zoological Societies' Transactions, and while this is so, 

 may we hope that our Editor will keep himself informed of such 

 papers, and from time to time bring those he considers of interest 

 under the notice of the readers of the Record. — Geo. C. Grifkiths, 

 43, Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol. [Mr. Griffiths is right. I 

 have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that our entomologists do 

 not support the Entomological Society of London, so largely as they 

 should. I did not think, when I penned my editorial, of the all 

 round loss we should sustain, were the sister societies not to help in 

 the publication of our work. I was only thinking of the inconvenience 

 the distribution of such papers is. — -Ed.] 



Hepialus humuli. — Now Hepialus is to the front, I may mention 

 an observation, that I do not think I have recorded or seen mentioned 

 by others. In two successive years, I saw what I took to be Nocture 

 hovering about the summits of one or two elm trees, some 50 or 60 

 feet from the ground. I managed to capture one by watching for one 

 descending to a lower level, and found it to be humuli ($ ; and then 



