2 [June, 



Acuminata and simplex are very closely allied, especially in the 

 $ . In the $ o£ acuminata, the 4th segment of the body beneath is 

 very largely and remotely punctured, and the 5th segment above has 

 no pilose band ; in simplex, the 4th segment of the body beneath is 

 closely and finely punctured, and the 5th segment above has a narrow 

 pilose band. The ^ of acuminata differs from simplex in having the 

 punctuation of the 4th segment beneath as coarse and remote as that 

 of the 2nd and 3rd, and a distinct lateral spine on the apex of the 5th 

 segment above. Simp)lex has no distinct spine on the 5th segment, and 

 the 4th is certainly more closely punctured than the 2nd and 3rd. 



We are indebted to Mr. Bridgman, of Norwich, for the discovery 

 of acuminata, who found 2 ^ and a $ in his collection. In looking 

 over my specimens of simplex, I find a ^ and $ , which, I believe, came 

 from Scotland. The sj^ecies is quite distinct, and I hope will turn up 

 again now its characters are known. 



(K.B. — The emargination of the 4th segment in the ^ is hard to 

 see on account of the pilose band, but is best observable by looking 

 from the direction of the apex). 



Holmesdale, 



Wandle Eoad, Upper Tooting : 



l^th May, 1879. 



NOTES ON THE BUTTEEFLIES OF THE EASTERN ALPS. 

 BY H. J. ELWES, P.L.S. 



I do not suppose that anything I have to say in this short sketch 

 of a few days' collecting will be novel, but it has struck me forcibly 

 how very little has been done or written by Englishmen to work out 

 the Lepidoptera of Europe. As an ornithologist, for I do not pretend 

 to be an entomologist, I feel proud to say that not only has the finest 

 and most exhaustive woi'k ever produced on the zoology of any part 

 of the world (I mean Dresser's " Birds of Europe") been written by 

 an Englishman, and founded, in a great measure, on the studies and 

 explorations of Englishmen, but also, that if one wants recent and 

 accurate information on the birds of any part of Europe, except Ger- 

 many and Eranee, it is to be sought in the pages of the " Ibis." 



On the contrary, if one wants to learn anything about the 

 Lepidoptera of Europe, one must begin by learning German, in which 

 language five-sixths of everything worth studying on the subject has 

 been written. It cannot be from ignorance, or from want of enter- 

 prise, that this strange neglect and indifference to continental 

 entomology has arisen, but rather from the old-standing narrow- 



