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large scale, is still to seek. But, however that may be, it is still the fact, so 

 far as 1 have been able to gather, that we have in this country only a somewhat 

 larger size of the colour form that has been known as A. montandoni, and it 

 seems desirable to have some means of indicating that fact, though whether by 

 calling it a distinct species or a variety {i. e. species in the making) does not, 

 perhaps, so much matter. My mention of four, instead of seven, species as 

 dt^scribed by Horvath in his Monograph was an inadvertence, due to the fact 

 that, although I had read the whole Monograph, I had for reference at the 

 time of writing only a MS. copy of such part of it as had any bearing upon 

 the question under consideration, and for the moment I forgot that this co])y 

 represented part only of the original. — E. A. Butler, 14 Drylands Road, 

 Ilorusey, N.8 : Nov. 9th, 1U17. 



Linmophilus elegans Curt, in Cumberland. — Among a number of Trichoptoia 

 recently sent to me for determination by Mr. G. B. Ivoutledge, of Headsnuok, 

 near Carlisle, I was very pleased to see a nice specimen of Limnophilus eleynns 

 ■which the sender had taken on Cumwhitton Moss, some ten miles from 

 Carlisle, on June 30th last. Twelve years ago Dr. R. T. Cassal took the species 

 freely at Ballaugh, in the Isle of Man, but, apart from those from this locality, 

 very few specimens have been taken in Britain, and then only as casual cap- 

 tures. Besides the L. elex/ans, the other species sent, which Mr. Routledge says 

 are new to his Cumberland List, weie Limnophilus ^parsus, Micropterna se(p(a.r, 

 JMijstacides lonf/icornis, and Oecetis ochracea. — Geo. T. Porritt, Hudderstield : 

 November bth, 1917. 



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Richard S. Standen. — The October No. of the " Entomologist" contains an 

 obituary notice of this veteran entomologist. He was well known to many of 

 us as an active Lepidopterist and Botanist, both at home and on the Continent, 

 and as a very agreeable companion to those who had the pleasure of his society 

 on their collecting excursions. In 1893 we made a trip together to Corsica, 

 and the results of his experiences are recorded by him in the " Entomologist" 

 for that year, and by myself in the " Transactions of-the Entomological Society " 

 for 1894. While he was living at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, in 1895, I also 

 joined him in various collecting excursions in that neighbourhood. lie was 

 born at Oxford on Oct. 11th, 1835, and died at Romsey, Hants, on Julv 29th 

 last, thus having reached the age of 82. His frequent trips to the Continent, 

 often for months or more at a time, both in summer and winter, and to some 

 extent his occasional changes of residence at home, afforded many opportunities 

 for tield-work, of which he was not slow to avail himself. Ilis capabilities as 

 an artist, musician, and collector of plants and insects are all duly alluded to 

 in the above-mentioned sympathetic notice written by his friend ]\Ir. H. 

 Rowland-Brown. Standen was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society 

 of London in 1889, serving on the Council for part of 1900, and a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1893, and was President of the South London Entomological 

 Societv in 1879.- G. C. C. 



