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■ Pyrameis cardiu in London. -A well preserved spocimeu of this butterfly 

 was picked up from the pavement in High Holborn on November 12th, 1914. 

 I fed the insect for two days and then set it at liberty, when it flew off 

 briskly. — Alfred Sich, Corney House, Chiswick, W. : January, 1915. 



The British Lepidoptera of the Oxford University Museum (Hope Department). 

 — The reari'angenient of the Macro-Lepidoptera of this important collection was 

 in 1913 kindly iindertaken by Mr. F. C. Woodforde, F.E.S., who has now brought 

 his task to a conclusion. The original " Hope-Westwood " collection, augmented 

 more than twenty years ago by the Rev. F. M. Spilsbury's large collection of 

 British Lepidoptera, includes fine series of several of our rare and extinct species, 

 those of Chrysophanus dispar (now nunibex'ing 23 specimens), Nomiades semi- 

 argus, and Noctiui subrosea being specially noteworthy, besides many specimens 

 of historic intei'est and some good varieties. The work of rearrangement 

 had become highly desirable by the gift of a large ntunber of specimens of rare 

 and local species by several of our prominent Lepidopterists, and by the 

 presentation to the Museum in recent years of the fine coliections made by the 

 late Messrs. A. J. Chitty and H. S. Sellon. All these have now been incorporated ; 

 the insects have been "staged" where necessary to an uniform height, and 

 special care has been taken to indicate by distinctive labelling the sovu-ce of 

 every specimen so far as it can be ascertained. The Macro-Lepidoptera now 

 occiTpy 250 cabinet drawers, of which 48 are appropriated to the butterflies 

 alone. The Pyrales, Pterophori, Tortrices, and Tineae, which in 1905 were 

 enriched by the very fine collection of these insects generously presented by 

 Mrs. E. C. Bazett, are contained in aboirt 100 more drawers, and have also been 

 recently arranged by the Museum staff. The entire series of British Lepidoptera 

 in the Oxford University Museum, including the histoi'ic "Dale" cabinets (c/. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., 1907, pp. 93, 130, 154 ; 1909, pp. 106, 179), now forms one of the 

 finest reference collections in existence, and is readily accessible to all students 

 of the Order. — James J. Walker, Oxford: February, 1915. 



Note on Kirby and Spenee's " Introduction to Entomology." — The exact share 

 which each author had in the production of this classic is detailed by Mr. Spence 

 in the chapter (xv) which he wrote for Freeman's " Life of Kirby." The par- 

 ticulars given in the note {ante, p. 10) furnished by Dr. Longstaff are included 

 — E. G. Batford, 2, Rockingham Street, Barnsley: January 1th, 1915. 



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BRiGGE Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., etc.. Imperial Entomologist to the Govern- 

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 1914. Price, rupees (^9 shillings). 



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