44 THE entomologist's record. 



purpurascem, in spite of the fact that it is so closely allied to L. 

 ni(/riceps, Th., that Deville considers it a fine " new variety" thereof. 

 It was taken in May, 1906, crawling in swarms among the slimy ooze 

 where water has trickled down the red sandstone cliffs on the south 

 side of the river Teign, at Shaldon. 



The Baron de Crombrugghe, in his presidential address to the 

 Societe Entomologique de Belgique, pays throughout a great tribute to 

 the excellence of the work of British micro-lepidopterists. His address 

 comprises a general revieAV of the principal biological features of the 

 Nepticulides, and he asks for more workers. The concluding paragraph 

 runs: "En consultant les auteurs et particulierement Tutt, le 

 chercheur assidu verra son zele recompense par d'autres decouvertes 

 encore. ... La litterature anglaise a fait faire un grand pas a 

 cette branche de I'entomologie et de plus elle nous donne un exemple 

 a imiter sous le rapport de la methode, de la clarte et de I'esprit 

 d'observation. Tout ce que Tutt a ecrit au sujet des Xepticiila dans 

 son ouvrage, British Lepidoptcra, est a lire. Cette lecture est le moyen 

 le plus rapide de s'assimiler presque tout ce qui a ete publie en cette 

 matiere et c'est pour avoir neglige cette lecture que des entomologues 

 se sont parfois donne beaucoup de peine pour chercher a decouvrir ou 

 a elucider ce qui etait decouvert et tranche depuis quelque temps. 

 Les diflicultes inherentes a I'etude des Nepticnla s'attenuent ou dis- 

 paraissent par la pratique et c'est le cas de rappeler cette consolante 

 verite, evocatrice de brillantes promesses : ' Nihil mortalibus arduum 

 est, sed carpe diem ? ' " 



As we are nearing the end of another volume of The Xatural 

 History of the British Batter fiies, we should be very glad if any of our 

 readers would send us detailed information of any errors or omissions 

 that have been noticed in Parts 1-17, which have been already published. 

 It is difficult to eliminate all such from so great a mass of detail, but 

 each helper who looks over his own (and other) contributions, etc., may 

 find some item that may be put right in a list of " Errata " in the 

 last number. There must be at least 23 parts instead of 20 in this 

 volume owing to the extended account of L'elastrina an/iolus, due 

 to the recent discovery by Dr. Chapman and Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, 

 that the whole of the American Celastrinids, and at least three 

 supposed Indian species, are merely forms of our British species. 

 Some 80 plates, including full life-histories of each species dealt with, 

 by Messrs. Main and Tonge, and a large number (about 36) of structural 

 photographs which Mr. F. Noad Clark has made from the preparations of 

 Dr. Chapman, and which the latter has given us for reproduction, will 

 make this the most comprehensive and most completely illustrated of 

 all the volumes of the series yet published. The life-histories of all 

 our " hairstreaks," of Lanipides bocticiis and Celastrina an/iolus, have 

 been worked out completely and de novo, and their various forms in 

 different parts of the world described. For the first time an accurate 

 detailed account of all these species has been completed, and errors, 

 copied and recopied in the works of various continental entomologists, 

 as well as by Newman, Barrett, South, and in our own small volume 

 of "British Butterflies," published in 1896, have been corrected, and 

 Ave hope cleared up finally. At any rate, we should be glad to know 

 of any slips that any of our entomological friends have noticed, so as 

 to make the contents as accurate as possible. 



