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margin near base, is of the ground colour, almost free of darker 

 scales, but with traces of a darker line running through it ; a clear 

 streak of the ground colour, from the costal end of the band almost 

 to inner angle, diffuse ; a black dot at end of cell. Hind wings 

 glossy pale brown, slightly suffused with fuscous ; veins dotted with 

 black on the outer area. Under side pale brown, sparsely freckled 

 with darker on the costal area of all the wings ; veins paler, glossy. 

 Expanse, 34 millim. 



Collection number, 662a. 



A, male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), May 11th, 1907. 



Allied to S. pallida, Walk. 



(To be continued.) 



BY THE WAY. 



We were once asked whether entomology was an " exact " 

 science. We answered in the affirmative, with the mental 

 substitution of "exacting" in the place of "exact," having 

 recently done some re-creative (not recreative) work on American- 

 described Hymenoptera. As a matter of fact, the present con- 

 dition of entomology in Britain is about as definite and exact 

 as Lewis Carroll's " slithy toves," when they "did gyre and 

 gimble in the wabe." The " wabe " in which we — er — gyrate 

 and grumble needs crystallizing, the extent of present knowiege 

 of the neglected orders tabulating, with the publication of 

 statistics showing in what direction research work, both syste- 

 matic and economic, is most necessary, practically and pure- 

 scientifically. 



One is moved to some discontent, such as the above, by the 

 only too true remark of the ' Daily Telegraph ' on March 3rd 

 last : " We have in England no Government entomologist, no 

 entomological experiment station, no organization which does 

 for the country as a whole what economical entomologists do in 

 India, in our dominions and colonies, and in the United States. 

 And at present there is no course of lectures or training in 

 entomology as a special subject given in England"; and the 

 ' Morning Post ' of 24th ult. epitomises a Press notice, which we 

 also received too late for our last issue, thus : "In order to 

 further the work of the African Entomological Kesearch Com- 

 mittee Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given a sum of ^'1000 a year 

 for three years, to defray the cost of sending qualified men to 

 study the practical applications of entomology in the United 

 States." The fact of the matter is that we in Britain take our 

 entomology as a mere hobby; we ride it with so selfish a rein 

 that we never touch what does not catch our instable fancy, and 



