94 ' [September. 



Extract from Dr. Lahoulhene's opening address as President of the French Ento- 

 mological Society. — Let us re-commence our labours, confident in the future. Let 

 us insist upon working unexplored fields ; let us seek the best subjects for study ; 

 let us renounce devotion to doubtfid species estaljlished on simple varieties. 



The orders of insects other than Coleoptera and Lepidorptera are too much 

 neglected. May our young colleagues adopt these neglected orders by preference ; 

 may their labours make known to us all the Orthoptcra, Neuroptera, Diptera, and 

 Hymenoptera of our country. Let us sincerely abstain from making descriptions of 

 all aberrant varieties, at the end of which one reads the stereotyped phrase — " This 

 is perhaps only a variety of such a species." 



■The Micro- Lepidoptera are more S'^ught for than formerly, but how much have 

 we yet to do to make them well known ! I ask our lepidopterists to quit the beaten 

 track of the large species for the unknown, and so attractive, world of small ones. 



That which we must have, especially among such of us as live in the country, is 

 patient observers of the manners of insects. On this, entomological science is estab- 

 lished. The best executed ' faunae ' are only descriptive catalogues, and means by 

 which to recognise species, of which the history is only rendered complete and 

 definite by statements of the earlier stages and habits. The description of larvse and 

 metamorphoses does as much for science as that of the perfect insects. Methodical 

 classifications will be finally established on life-history, and not on a single state of 

 the insect. 



One word more, gentlemen, to tell you that we ought to aim at the progress of, 

 and seek to niaintain, the elevated rank we occupy in Zoology ; but let us remember 

 that sterile agitation is not veritahle progress. 



(Printed in the bulletin of the French ' Annales ' for 1872, p. iv. Most of Dr. 

 Laboulbene's observations are equally applicable to entomologists of any nationality. 

 — Eds.). 



New names for a long knovjn Lcpidoptcron. — In the last Number (August, 1872) 

 of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' Mr. A. G. Butler describes and 

 figures a new genus and species of the family Nolodontidai. The genus is named 

 Tarsolepis ; the species T. remicauda. 



The same insect, however, is already figured (in 1806) by J. Hiibner, in the 

 second volume of his ' Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlingc ' (plate 197) under the 

 name Crino Sommeri ; and, as belonging to the Noctuce genuince. Herrich-Schseffer 

 (Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter ausser-eurojjaischer Schmetterlinge, p. 11) 

 changed the generic name, as used before, to Crinodes, and placed the insect in the 

 family Notodontina. Walker, on the other hand, in his ' List of the Specimens of 

 Lopidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,' part xiv (1858), 

 p. 1346, brings the genus Crino, Hiibn., to the Noctuid family Ophiusidaj, which, 

 however, is rectified in the ' Stcttiner entomologische Zcitung ' for 1862, p. 477, 

 by K. Dietrich, who regards it, and most justly, as a Notodontid genus, nearly 

 allied to the genera Fhalera, H.-Sch., und Datana, Walk. 



I have seen five specimens of Crinodes Sommeri, Hiibn. ; four females in the 

 collection of the Koyal Museum at Leyden (placed, under the name cilaminata, de 

 Haan, i. 1., in the genus Ngsialca, Gn., at present also a Notodontid gcnu^), and one 



