240 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
use of English names for insects, for we know that it is rather a 
hobby of Mr. Roberts’s to establish a fixed code of English names 
for everything occurring in Britain ; but where is the advantage ? 
It is just as easy for anyone to learn the scientific name of a moth 
as Apamea unanimis as its English sobriquet of the “uniform 
rustic,” while our continental correspondents may be glad to 
hear that we can send them curious local forms of the former 
which would fail to reach their understanding as the latter. 
There is no hope of our establishing an English nomenclature 
for British insects, for even now, in closely associated localities, 
a common moth like Arctia caia is as frequently known as 
“woolly bear,” “airy wurm,” or “tiger,” according to its stage 
of existence. 
Apart from such small matters, which may, and probably 
will, be set right in the next edition, the ‘ Naturalists’ Diary’ 
is a book which every entomologist should obtain, for though at 
the moment he may shirk the labour attendant upon keeping it 
systematically, he may alter his opinion after digesting the Intro- 
duction and map.—J. T. C. 
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian 
Field Club. Vol. VII. Sherborne. 
Tuts volume refers to the work done during 1885, and is 
quite up to the excellent standard of the later issues of the 
series. The Club, we find from the annual report, was in 
prosperous condition, with assets to the extent of about £140 
to the good. 
The entomological work done is limited, but such as there is 
of much interest, especially the further full remarks by the Rey. 
O. P. Cambridge upon Lycena argiades, which paper is illustrated 
by a handsome coloured plate, with two upper- and two under- 
sides of this species; and a spray of the greater bird’s-foot 
trefoil, Lotus major, which grows abundantly where the Dorset 
specimen of L. argiades occurred. Mr. Cambridge thinks this 
will probably be the food-plant of that butterfly in this country. 
There is an illustrated paper, by Mr. O. P. Cambridge, on ‘‘ New 
and Rare British Spiders,” which should not be lost sight of by 
those who are working this group of animals.—J. T. C. 
