268 THE entomologist's record. 



^URRENT NOTES. 



Prof. Poult.on wishes it to be known among entomologists who may 

 desire to study tlie material in the Hope Collection at Oxford, that 

 greater convenience and comfort exist for students than has hitherto 

 been the case. One large room has been fitted up as the library, what 

 was Prof. West wood's room has been thrown into the large insect room, 

 a room has been set apart for jjhotography, and another has been fitted 

 tip as a biological laboratory. Prof. Poulton states that there is a large 

 ([uantity of material which wants working through, and invites entomo- 

 logists to do it. 



The copy of the ninth volume of L' Encyclopedie Methodique, in the 

 library of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum, 

 is still preserved in two parts, as originally issued. Part I. comprises 

 pp. 1-328 ; Part II., pp. 329-828. The latter part contains no indi- 

 cation of the date at which it was published, but Hummel, writing at 

 St. Petersburg in 1825 (Essais Enfotuologiques, Tom. I., No. 5, p. 48), 

 says that it did not appear till 1824. Much of it must, however, liave 

 been written some years before that date. — F. J. B. 



As the trivial name exulans seems likely to be a good deal in men's 

 mouths just now, it may be useful to point out that the correct way to 

 pronounce it is to accent the syllable ex, and to make the n short. — 

 B. B. T. 



OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



The autumn season (1894) in the Isle of Wight. — An unusually 

 bad June and July in my usual haunts had combined to drive me to 

 "fresh fields and pastures new," with results very gratifying both as 

 regards an increased number of species " not known " at Freshwater, 

 and with respect to increased knowledge of some of those rich 

 collecting grounds, wliich, as the Norfolk Broads and the Cambridge 

 Fens, present so marked a contrast to the breezy cliffs of my headquarters. 

 Towards the end of August, the reports from a brother, who was 

 energetically maintaining the campaign during my absence, grew 

 gradually more encouraging, and I returned to the old spots in the first 

 week of September. I was agreeably welcomed by a sight of the L. 

 cxiyita, recorded last month (ante p. 229), and by an already captured 

 L. albipnncta, and at once commenced operations by promptly securing 

 a second. Encouraging reports from Sandown raised fresh hopes 

 which have found due gratification during the whole of the month, and 

 the pleasure of success has been considerably enbanced by being shared 

 with several friends who were aljle to embrace the o]ii)ortunity offered. 

 (_)f species which, during the long time I have worked the western end 

 of the island, I had never previously met with are the following : 

 Noctua (jlareosa (I), Sept. "15th ; IlcJIophohvi^ hixpida (1), about Sept. 1st; 

 Cahwiia hdosa (1), Sept. 25th (]\Ir. Tait) ; Phsia fcstucae (1), end of 

 .\ugust ; Hadena protea, several, Sept. 20-27 ; whilst of others, which 

 fi-om their lateness or comparative scarcity I have only met with 

 singly are, Epnudd IntuJenta, Orthonid Iota, Ileliothis peUi^ier (1), (sugar, 

 Sept. 26th, Mr. Tait), and U. armiger, (2) (sugar, Sept. 27th, Mr. Tait), 

 and, in addition, I must not fail to record a very fine female Hcliophohus 



