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Notice. — Having been appointed to the Flag Ship, just 

 commissioned for the Pacific Station, I shall be unable to 

 visit the locality for Arion, and so, 1 fear, unwillingly disap- 

 point many of my friends to whom I promised the insect; 

 and, as I am too busy to write separately to each, I take this 

 means of informing them. — Gervase F. Mathew ; Admiralty 

 House, Devonport, July 8, 1872. 



Annual Report of the North Staffordshire Naturalist 

 Field- Club, 1872. — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of this 

 interesting pamphlet, through the kindness of the Rev. Thomas 

 W. Daltry, the Secretary. It contains several interesting 

 papers, among which I would mention one " On the Lepi- 

 doptera of North Staffordshire," by the talented and 

 industrious Secretary, as particularly worthy of study. 



Edward Newman. 



The Genus Acentropus, as treated by Mr. Dunning. 



(Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872. Part III. May.) 



The Editor of the 'Entomologist' might very plausibly 

 advance "indirect claims" to a treatise, which, if not the 

 very best and most exhaustive that the Entomological talent 

 of this country has ever produced, still may be said to claim 

 a place in the foremost rank, since Mr. Dunning, its gifted 

 author, after giving a masterly summary of the labours and 

 opinions of entomologists on the characters and position of the 

 genus Acentropus, proceeds as follows : — " It was no part of 

 my plan to have given the preceding sketch, but I have been 

 led to do so by reading the remarks of the Editor of the 

 'Entomologist,' which I have just quoted." Thus it is 

 evident how good a case 1 might make out of " indirect 

 claims" to the authorship of a treatise exhibiting so much 

 research. There is one, and but one, cause for regret 

 for the launching of this paper of Mr. Dunning's through 

 the very narrow channel he has selected. The circulation 

 of the ' Transactions of the Entomological Society' is 

 very much confined to the members of that learned body, 

 and the reading of those Transactions is yet more restricted : 

 so much so is this the case, that I should have never known of 



