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EURRENT NOTES. 



The City of London Society is to be congratulated on the fact that it 

 inchides some of our hardest-working coleopterists. Mr. Newljery has 

 just added Bemhidlmn in'color, Bedel, to the British list. This is the 

 r/pariiun of (Janon FoAvler's British Coleoptera. He has also criticised the 

 nomenclature of the group, and suggests that the three species in this 

 particular group should be called B. hiyuttatum, B. tricolor and B. 

 inanlatmn. 



Mr. Morton (E. M. 31., p. 249) gives some interesting accounts of 

 the " Micropterous forms of Tceniopteri/x nebidosa," one of the Perlidce 

 found near Cleghorn. He also records the capture of Agaj^etus 

 delicatidtis in Arran last July. 



Dr. F. J. Buckell will, on November 21st, at the meeting of the 

 City of London Entomological Society, read a jjaper entitled " The 

 History of Butterfly classification." All interested in entomological 

 science are cordially invited, and we have no douljt that the paper will 

 prove very interesting ; the subject has not been dealt with in this 

 country for many years. 



We have to record with regret the death of Mr. J. Batty, of 

 Sheffield, on October 14th, at the age of 62. We are informed that 

 he was the last survivor of the Sheffield Entomologists' Club, and that 

 he first discovered the larvfe of Tapinostola elymi and Celcena haworthii. 

 His work of late has been chiefly with the Toktrices, and he has paid 

 considerable attention to the collection of the melanic forms of certain 

 species, which appear to occur somewhat freely round Sheffield. Our 

 own corres})ondence with him seems to have jjointed him out as a man 

 with a large j^tractical ac(|uaintance with the larvee of many si:)ecies of 

 Micro-lepidoptera, and a generous disposition to get them for corres- 

 pondents. Mr. A. E. Hall, Norbury, Sheffield, would be jileased to 

 hear from any correspondents, whose boxes are in the possession of 

 Mr. Batty's family. 



Our Editorial concerning Deilephila eaphorhiie (ante p. 249) has at hist 

 drawn from the Kev. J. Seymour St. John (Ent., p. 314) an explanation 

 that should have been given " in the interests of entomology as well as of 

 truth" some years ago. We are sorry to have injured Mr. St. John's 

 })ersonal feelings, but when he states that we impugned Mr. Fry's 

 veracity we can only deny it in toto, and remind him that at the time 

 our Editorial was penned we had never, to our recollection, heard of 

 Mr. Fry's existence. What we objected most strongly to was the 

 mythological " young friend," who figures far too frequently in ento- 

 mological communications. If Mr. St. John had taken the proper 

 course of giving the real captor's name in his first communication, we 

 might have formed a different judgment on the matter long ago. We 

 object most strongly to the method adopted by Mr. St. John of recording 

 a bona fide capture, a method which his tardy explanation shows to 

 have been entirely unnecessary. 



Erratum. — Page 272, line 4, for "triple-hooded" read "triple- 

 brooded." 



