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for students of philology, and the better prepared in each case 

 the more useful to the students. — John T. Carrington. 



Setting Rhopalocera. — The method of setting the under 

 sides of Diurni, as suggested by Dr. Percy Rendall, is quite 

 an old style. I think the position of the legs would be greatly 

 improved by setting them in such a position as to represent the 

 insect when settled ; as Dr. Rendall says (Entom. xx. 320), " set 

 them as they are so often seen settled on a flower-head ;" but the 

 legs as shown in the figure to me appear to have a very dead 

 appearance. The Hesperidse while settled, never, I believe, make 

 their wings meet over the back, but generally hold them about the 

 width of the thorax apart at the tips, and the hind pair still wider 

 apart ; therefore, to represent nature, such a position ought to be 

 imitated in the setting. I think the most effective and instructive 

 way of forming a collection is as follows, beginning at the top of 

 a series : — Males upper and under sides, females upper and under 

 sides, set in the usual manner to show all the wings, then a male 

 and female each in a settled attitude, together with ova, the larva, 

 and pupa to end the series ; a collection so arranged would be 

 well worth the time and trouble devoted to the setting, as sym- 

 metrical setting and perfection of the specimens is the beauty of 

 a collection. — F. W. Frohawk; Balham, December, 1887. 



The Female of Cledeobia angustalis. — It has seemed 

 strange to me, but twice during the last fortnight and several 

 times before, I have had notes from correspondents referring to 

 the fact that the difference between the males and females of 

 Cledeobia angustalis was unknown to them before I sent them 

 both sexes. As these correspondents were entomologists ad- 

 vanced in the study, and many series of this species in cabinets 

 seem to consist entirely of male specimens, I think a few 

 remarks on the species might not be out of place in the * Entom- 

 ologist.' I have occasionally captured specimens of this species 

 in different localities, but nowhere in such abundance as on 

 the Deal sandhills. There it sometimes occurs in countless 

 numbers ; and this summer, had it not been that my attention 

 was specially directed to other species, I could have captured 

 any number. The males, from dusk until quite midnight, fly 

 freely about, Cr ambus -like, from one grass culm to another, 

 crawling rapidly up to the top of the culm on which they 

 settle, from whence they take a short flight to another and 



entom. — JAN. 1888. D 



