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are able to commend very cordially the clear and accurate presentation of the 

 material, and to wish the work the success which it so well deserves. 



We are glad to learn that a similar account of the genitalia of the Tortri- 

 cidse is to follow at no distant date. — L.B.P. 



" The Label List of British Lepidoptera " : compiled after several 

 standard authorities. London : Watkins and Doncaster, 36, Strand, W.C. 1914. 



The title of this list, of which the printing and paper leave nothing to be 

 desired, is somewhat misleading, as only the names of the so-called " Macro- 

 Lepidoptera " with the addition of the " Pyrales " and " Crambites " are included 

 in it. While a really complete and " up-to-date " list for labelling our cabinets 

 is still a desideratum, the one now noticed will, we think, hardly satisfy the 

 more advanced collectors and students of our Lepidoptera. The generic and 

 specific names are mostly in accordance with modern ideas, but one synonym at 

 most is given, and the entire absence of author's names — which would have added 

 greatly to the value of the list, and would not have appreciably increased the 

 size of the labels — is much to be regretted. That the demand for " English " 

 names still exists in full force is evident by the prominence given to these 

 quaint survivals ; though we confess to a certain amount of respect for the 

 majority of these titles, which amid the welter of recent changes in nomen- 

 clature, have remained unaltered from the days of Haworth and the old 

 " Aurelians." The " popular " names of recent additions to our list are scarcely 

 as happy as some at least of the old ones, and we could have wished that our 

 distinguished visitor, " Anosia archippms," included without comment in the 

 list of Rhopalocera, had retained one of its long-established and appropriate 

 American designations as the "Milkweed Butterfly," or the "Monarch." 



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It is with great regret that we record the death of William Warren, who 

 passed away on October 18th at Tring, at the ripe age of 75. 



William Warren was an entomologist well known to the majority of 

 workers in this country. He was born at Cambridge in 1839, and was first 

 educated at Oakham School, and subsequently graduated at Cambridge, taking 

 first-class classical honours. It was probably for this reason that he 

 selected the profession of schoolmaster as that which he wished to follow, 

 and on leaving the University he entered Doncaster Grammar School. He 

 was always, from his earliest youth, greatly attached to the study of Entom- 

 ology, the hobby being favoured by his acquaintance with Messrs. T. and J. 

 Brown, of Cambridge. No man knew the entomology of Cambridge and its 

 surroundings better than William Warren, and it was he who first directed the 



