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We have received a copy of Bihliniira/thia ('(ilco/itcroldiiico, a list of 

 voluTTies and separata on Coleoptera from W. Junk, of Berlin. That it 

 is comprehensive will be understood when we say that it consists of 

 the titles of more than 4,000 separate publications, with an intro- 

 duction (14 pp.) on the literature of Coleopterology, and a plate of 

 portraits of a number of living authors. 



In an article on the recently established species Efit/an'onia [Retima) 

 f)iirdei/i and //. Ini/itro, Mr. R. South, in the February number of the 

 I iitmiKilnffist, makes the following remarks which we think worthy of 

 reprinting and reprinting. " Frequent name-changing, whether 

 generic or specific, is of course troublesome, not to say perplexing, but 

 it appears to be inevitable. The modern trend of entomological action 

 has been not only to uphold priority but to enforce it, so that in the 

 present day the " law " is almost universally recognised by systematists. 

 Some there are certainly who advocate exceptions and restrictions, but 

 //' ire are ever to hare cimithinij apfroachincf Jinalit;/ i)i ntuiienchtture, 

 strict prioriti/ iritliniit any qnalifi cation irliaterer )inist /ircrail. There 

 can be no question that the only method of securing even approximate 

 stability is to ascertain with certainty not only the earliest legitimate 

 names of species but the truegeneric position of species in classification." 

 The italics are ours. Will the International Congress of Entomo 

 logists take u;) ihis question and not leave naming to the untram- 

 melled aberrant idiosyncrasies of the individual ? 



In the J\ntom,oUi(jisrhfi Mitteihitujen for the current year a serie.s of 

 useful bibliographical studies has been commenced by Dr. H. 

 Roescbke. The books dealt with so far are Panzei^'s h'ainia I nsi'i-tormn 

 (jrennanicae and Sturm's Deiitsr/ilands Fauna. 



It is interesting to find from an article by L. H. Bonaparte- Wyse 

 in the Jrish yatnrali^t, that Antlnorera /mriinralis still strongly holds 

 its own in co. Galway, while Vanesfta /o was in absolute abundance ; 

 the beautiful form of ? Pnlyonnnatus icarns was noted ; Afpotis 

 Inrcrnea flew in some numbers locally in the sunshine, and Aryyvm's 

 at/laia occurred rather freely. 



The Ballet in de la Societe lejiiilopteriddifiqae ilr deneri' for 1911 has 

 recently come to hand. We have nothing but praise for this admirable 

 periodical. Whether one regards the general get-up and production of 

 the magazine itself, or considers only the value of the matter containefl 

 in its pages, the opinion must be the same. That Prof. Charles 

 Blachier is the general Editor speaks for itself, while Dr. Reverdin. 

 Mr. Arnold Pictet, and M. J. Culot are among the contributors, a 

 guarantee of the quality of the matter. There are four beautifully 

 coloured plates, and to say that they are the production of M. Culot, 

 stands for their excellence. It is rarely that one gets such a galaxy of 

 talent as form the active and productive members of this small Society. 

 Turning to the matter, we have first a long article discussmg critically 

 the characteristics of the three Hesperid species, which have hitherto 

 been so much confused, r/c, Hesperia malvac, H. nialroidea (fritillntn), 

 and H. melotis. This paper is illustrated by an extremely successful 

 coloured plate, a plate of the genitalia, an enlarged comparison of 

 nialrae and nialroides, and a map of the species distribution. In the 

 second article Dr. Arnold Pictet describes his breeding experiments 

 with Laaincanipa qnerras. especially discussing the number of moults 

 undergone by the larvae. Under the title, ihir Sn-ias Parnamids, 



