OURRENT NOTES. 



147 



tions are " unnecessarily lengthy," etc., etc. This is very funny. As 

 a matter of detail Mr. Rollason's account looks small (4i pages of 

 general descriptive matter against the 2.5 pages of the account in the 

 Mat. Hist, of l>vit. Le})idopti'ra, i., pp. 190-215), and the description of 

 the e^^Q "shining pearly of a warm whitish-grey colour" hardly bears 

 comparison with the illustrated article {F.)it. Hrc, xx., pp. 14 rt seq.) 

 on the same subject. Mr. Frohawk complains that Mr. Rollason 

 does not refer to the larval moults, but then neither Mr. Frohawk's 

 nor Mr. Rollason's larvie seem to have tubercles and other structures 

 considered important nowadays. Besides, what constitutes a life- 

 history ? How little we know of the life-history of anything. 



We do want very Ijadly a really good scientific description of the 

 earl}^ stages of Adopaect riara [thauwax). As is usual, we knoAV least of 

 the commonest species of our British fauna. Eggs, larvte, or pupte 

 of any of our British " blues" (except Celastrina ar;ii()lns) would also 

 still be very acceptable, so would dates of capture, habits, etc., noted 

 l)y our regular correspondents the la:^t three or four years. 



It is with the greatest regret that we have just heard that one of 

 the best known entomologists in France, Pierre Adrien Prosper Finot, 

 Capitaine d'Etat Major Retraite, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, 

 died at his residence at Fontainebleau, on April 14th last, at the age 

 of 70. He was not only one of the best orthopterists in Europe, but 

 a man of most charming personality — -affable, kind, and generous — as 

 some of lis, who were fortunate in knowing him personally, can testify 

 most fully. A day with him at his collection was full of educational 

 interest, whilst a day in the Forest he knew so well was one of the 

 treats of a lifetime. That you were a lepidopterist mattei'ed little ; 

 lie knew the localities in the distant parts of the Forest for all the 

 more local -species ; he guided you to the most secluded corners, and 

 pointed out everything of interest — geological, botanical, zoological — 

 on the way ; whilst his knowledge of his favourite order seemed 

 unlimited. His work is of the most solid and trustworthy character, 

 the outcome of long and careful study, and must always take a high 

 place in the consideration of those who, in the future, will have to 

 consult it, or bring its conclusions unto judgment. One of our 

 colleagues promises a full notice in an early niimber, together with a 

 photograph of the deceased savant. 



Mr. Champion reports Crt/ptop/iatiaslnvenilali, Gangib., as captured 

 in the New Forest, on July 23rd, 1907. 



Mr. A. E. J. Carter adds two diptera to the British list : (1) I'ei/o- 

 iin/ia esurieiis, Mg., captured July 8th, 1907, at Comrie, Perthshire. 

 (2) Pe;i()iii;/ia anirittata, v. Ros., a 3' , captured August 8th, 1906, in 

 CO. Waterford, by ]\Ir. H. W. Andrews, others taken at Comrie, July 

 9th, 1907, and yet others July 8rd, 1905, in the New Forest, by Mr. 

 Adams. Mr. Jenkinson describes IJiarJn/pcza railiata, n. sp., from 

 specimens captured at Cambridge, August 2nd, 1901, July 5th and 

 September 2nd, 1905, August '20th, 21st, 22nd, 1900, and July 

 27th, 1907. 



Mr. Brocklehurst lecoi'ds the capture of an example of Sntodnnta 

 tritnp/uis on May 13th, 1907, at electric light, at Bedford. 



Mr. Collin notes the following diptera captured by Mr. Malloch in 

 Dumbartonshire as new to the British list — AuiaHrosoma inerme, 

 Becker, A. annillata, Ztt., Sapronn/ia (jitadrivittata, Lw., Anth(i)inj::a 

 KUfiHicella, Ztt., and Diastata inornata, Lw. 



