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r,ot to be difficult to show how far its habits are the same in England as in the 

 other localities in which I have met with it.-T. A. Chapmak, Betula, Reigate : 

 October, 1905. 



A further note on the late J. W. Don^las-The late Mr. Douglas in his early 

 days was an ardent Lepidopterist. In 1842 he added Notodonta tritophus to the 

 British list, and recorded it in the " Entomologist " for that year. Newman a so 

 states in his " British Moths," p. 231, " the caterpillar was once taken at St. Usyth, 

 in Essex, by Mr. Douglas, who succeeded in rearing the moth." He was also the 

 first to take Pachnobla alpina in Britain, as Messrs. Humphrey, and Westwood, m 

 their " British Moths," state : "The specimen from which their figure was made 

 was that taken by Mr. Douglas on Caivn Gower, Perthshire, in 1839." With the 

 exception of one captured by James Foxcroft in 1854, Mr. Douglas' specnnen re- 

 mained unique up to 1874, when others were taken. But Mr. Douglas' chief woi«k 

 was amongst the Micro-Lepidoptera, and his Monograph of the old and then difficult 

 genus, Qelechia, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1849, was at 

 the time a very useful paper. In the same volume he figured and described Anchylo- 

 pera suharcuana ; in fact, he was so good a Micro-Lepidopterist that Stamton 

 associated him with himself as one of his assistants in the "Natural History 

 of the Tineina," and named after him a Depressaria , and also the genus 

 Douglasia. Mr. Douglas was also a good Coleopterist, and wrote an interesting 

 article on the food and habits of Velleins dilatatns in hornets' nests (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag vol XV, p. 260). Anisoxya fuscuJa at Lee (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xii, p. 83), 

 was also a notable capture. It may be as well to call to mind also his article on 

 the Colorado Beetle (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xiii, p. 181). In the Neuroptera his best 

 capture was Borem hyemaUs, at Croydon (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. iv, p. 156). His 

 paper on the PsylUd^ (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xiii), and on Aleurodes (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xiv), filled a gap which was very much wanted ; well written and containing a 

 fund of information are his articles on Entomological localities, interspersed with 

 suitable poetical quotations from Shelley, Horace, &c., altered and adapted to cir- 

 cumstances.-C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : November \st, 1905. 



A. Natural History of the British Butterflies; their world-wide; 



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Two parts of Mr. Tutt's long-expected work on the limited number of Diurnal J 

 Lepidoptera included in the fauna of the British Islands are before us, the first off 

 these bearing the date November 1st, 1905. In each part four pages are devoted too 

 general considerations of the group, the two parts already issued containing a lucidd 

 and highly interesting account of the eggs and egg-laying habits of Butterflies, andd 

 the commencement of a chapter by Mr. A. E. Tonge on his method of photographing? 

 the eggs themselves— a highly successful example of which is given on Plate I. Mr 



