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specimens being observed. It is some years since it was last observed 

 in numbers, so careful note was made of all the black males seen ; 

 they amounted to fifteen, so it seems that the proportion of melanic 

 examples has now increased to about 20 per cent. They were 

 mostly in fine condition, but very little variation was noted in any 

 other direction. A Panolis -pinii^erda 9 seemed very early, while 

 Hljhernia leucophaaria ^ was the only other insect seen. — W. G. 

 Clutten ; 132, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 



Deepanopteryx PHAL.EN0IDES, LiNN. (NettvojHera). — As records 

 of the capture of this very interesting "Lace-wing" are very 

 infrequent, it may be well to note that Mr. E. B. Nevinson gave me 

 on November 18th last a nice example, taken by Mr. Conrad Reuss 

 in Switzerland about seven years previously. This neuropteron 

 bears a remarkably close resemblance to a " hook-tip " moth, whence 

 its scientific name. — W. J. Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



WiCKEN Fen Trust. — Owing to pressure of work, I am unable 

 to continue the Hon. Treasurership of this Trust. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, 

 Youlgreave, South Croydon, having kindly consented to act as Hon. 

 Treasurer for the present, all subscriptions and communications should 

 be addressed to him. — H. Rowland-Brown. 



REVIEW. 



Etudes dc Lcpido'ptcrologic Comparee, fasc. xiv. Par Charles Ober- 

 THiJR. Rennes. September, 1917, pp. i69, plates col. 19, 

 process 27. 

 This last volume of M. Oberthiir's classic work bears date 

 September, 1917. The copy under review reached me early in the 

 present year. It is a wonderful publication, not merely for the 

 magnificence of the plates and the scientific value of the contents, 

 but because in this fourth year of the war such an addition to our 

 libraries is possible at all. M. Oberthiir evidently realises this. He 

 puts forward, therefore, an apology for continuing his labours while 

 the world is upside down and at war. And his apology is one 

 which, I think, the scientific world will accept readily. He pleads 

 that his time is short — we trust that he may be long spared to us. 

 He pleads that science and art are above and apart from the present 

 turmoils. Happy the man who can turn his thoughts even for a 

 brief moment from the noisy arena into the quiet by-ways of Nature. 

 May w'e not as naturalists agree not only that these occasional 

 diversions are legitimate, but that they are necessary if we are to keep 

 ourselves sane in mind as well as in body. For students of the 

 Lyctenids there is much of special interest ; in fact, the greater part 

 of the volume, apart from monographs of the genus xictinotc and 

 lepidoptcra from Indo-China, is devoted to summing up the results 



