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point. Canon xiii. of the ' Code of Nomenclature ' of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union covers tins point, and there the reasons for its 

 adoption are given at length. They seem convincing to me, and this 

 code is generally adopted by our entomologists. I have adhered to 

 this in my ' Catalogue of the Noctuidae of Temperate North America,' 

 and in all my monographic papers." 



Four other gentlemen, viz. Aurevillius (C), Grote (A. R.), 

 Snellin (P. C. T.), and Staudinger (0.), intimated that they 

 preferred to adopt the tenth edition, and, with certain reserva- 

 tions, Dr. Scudder concurred in Lord Walsinghain's remarks ; 

 Sir George F. Hampson and Mr. Meyrick at first inclined to the 

 twelfth edition, but finally they agreed to accept the tenth. _ It 

 would seem then that all the entomologists to whom this question 

 was submitted have pronounced in favour of the tenth edition of 

 the ' Systema Naturae ' as a starting-point. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Emydia cribrum in the New Forest. — The larva which I mentioned 

 in last month's issue of the 'Entomologist' was that of E. cribrum all 

 right ; I have already taken over fifty of the perfect insects, and there 

 are still many left upon the wing in the New Forest. The series caught 

 are very much whiter than those I get from Verwood ; some are almost 

 white, and none approach the dark forms obtained in the other district. 

 I think this interesting, as it seems to me to be indigenous to the 

 locality, and not an introduction. I should like to know whether any- 

 one has ever taken this species in the New Forest proper before. — 

 J. H. Fowler ; Ringwood, June, 1899. 



Emydia cribrum. — Mr. J. H. Fowler's remarks on this species (ante, 

 p. 150) have greatly interested me, and he is quite right in supposing 

 that when writing my notes (ante, pp. 101-3) I overlooked his obser- 

 vations recorded in Entom. xxvii. 307-8, which I much regret having 

 done. I am extremely pleased to hear that he has discovered a locality 

 for the species actually in the New Forest. This interesting fact does 

 not of course affect my previous statement, based on information given 

 me by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge and corroborated by Mr. George 

 Gulliver (both of whom knew Mr. Bond intimately, and used frequently 

 to accompany him in his expeditions in search of E. cribrum), that the 

 late Mr. Frederick Bond, on whose authority the published locality for 

 the insect was given as the "New Forest," used this rather misleading 

 term to denote the locality near Ringwood where he always worked for 

 it, no one in his time knowing of its existence in the New Forest proper. 

 To this day the resident collectors in the New Forest take all their 

 specimens of E. cribrum near Ringwood, and to the best of my belief 

 no one but Mr. Fowler has ever met with it within the limits of the 

 Forest itself. — Eustace R. Bankes ; The Rectory, Corfe Castle, 

 June 19th, 1899. 



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