42 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



mens from which they were made, are being given to the British 

 Museum), I selected among others a specimen of Bartel's aibirica, in 

 which there was a well-developed central basal spot, on the underside 

 of the hindwing ; a feature I had not previously noted in specimens or 

 illustrations of that species, there being usually only the costal one 

 present. This additional spot did not exist in X. I sent this speci- 

 men, together with photographs of the genitalia of sibirica and X to 

 Prof. Reverdin, explaining the facts and asking his opinion. He tells 

 me he mounted the genitalia of the specimen, and found it to be 

 similar to X, and that on anatomical evidence he believes sibirica and 

 X to be distinct species : though he cannot separate them superficially. 

 As there are onlj' the two specimens known, however, an element of 

 doubt must remain, it being possible that they are isolated, variable 

 specimens of sibirica. The difference in the armature between sibirica 

 and X is, as Prof Reverdin pointed out when writing, considerably 

 greater than the difference existing between andromedae and cacaliae ; 

 but all the same, for want of a greater number of specimens, one cannot 

 come to any definite conclusion. 



This note, however, will serve to correct the oversight in regard to 

 andromedae. Fig. 1, on plate i., is the form X, done from the same 

 photograph as was published in 1917. Fig. 2 is type sibirica. 



Writing of Dr. Chapman in this month's EntoDiologist (February), 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon says, " ' The Doctor' in his work, as in everything 

 else, was absolutely unselfish ; his sole anxiety in dealing with a 

 scientific problem was that it should be solved ; it did not signify to 

 him one iota whether he or someone else solved it ; provided it was 

 solved." 



A letter I had from Dr. Chapman just three weeks before he died, 

 illustrates this comment very aptly. He had been accumulating 

 material on the Hesperiids for many years, he told me, and had studied 

 that group extensively, making numerous mounts of the genitalia of 

 nearly all the Palajarctic forms ; he then added, " It seems then that 

 what I have so far done would be most useful if placed at your service 

 for your book." In this generous manner he was prepared to give me, 

 a mere acquaintance, the benefit of what must have represented months 

 of careful work ; because it would be " most useful" to science, so. 



Unfortunately he did not live to put the full details of his work on 

 paper, but such notes as he left have been given to me by Miss 

 Chapnxan. 



V Oil 



the habits of Stenamma westwoodi in Ireland. 



By A. W. STELFOX, M.R.I. A. 



In the Irish Xatiiralist for November, 1921, Mr. R. A. Phillips, 

 M.R.I. A., records the finding of numerous colonies of this ant in an old 

 oak wood near New Ross ; of two colonies in Killoughrum Forest, 

 another native oak wood ; as well as of odd workers and a male in 

 Camlin Wood. All these localities are in Co. Wexford. 



Mr. Phillips's first finds were made in May, 1921, when he reported 

 and sent me specimens from two nests. Being aware that no nest of 

 this species had been taken in the British Islands, and that even on the 

 continent some well-known myrmecologists of the past had regarded 

 this species as being an inhabitant of other ants' nests, it was with 



