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punctata, Bonaria sericea, and Harpalusproteus, amongst the Coleoptera 

 Ftyclus spumaria and Bysthoscojms flavicoUis, amongst the Homoptera 

 Chrysis ignita and Bomhus muscorum, amongst the Hymenoptera. — 

 C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles Wootton, August 1st, 1895. 



Hermaphrodite of Pieris napi, var. Bryonia. — I recently took a 

 specimen answering this description on the Gemme Pass, in Switzer- 

 land, the right fore wing of which is that of a typical male, the other 

 three resembling those of a female of the alpine variety hryonicB. — W. 

 Harcourt Bath ; Birmingham. 



Entomological Expedition to the Alps. — I have recently under- 

 taken a very successful collecting trip to the Pennine and Bernese 

 Alps and Jura. In the course of a fortnight I netted about 1500 

 specimens of Ehopalocera, representing nearly 90 species, full par- 

 ticulars of which I hope to publish in the ' Entomologist ' later on. — 

 W. Harcourt Bath ; Birmingham, August 1st, 1895. 



" Newspaper Entomology." — To a specialist of any class a news- 

 paper will always appear inaccurate ; and we cannot help feeling that 

 Mr. James's attempt to pillory the writer of an unsigned letter to an 

 evening paper, which any one can see for himself in a dozen public 

 places, rather misses its mark, and recoils upon its author. Who the 

 " moderate collector " may be I know not, but, whoever he is, he has 

 been unfairly treated by Mr. James. The entomological mistakes 

 referred to by the latter are, on the very face of the letter, not those of 

 the writer, but of other parties. These mistakes are not endorsed by 

 the writer, and it would have been foreign to the object of his letter to 

 correct them ; that object, it is plain, was the very admirable one of 

 calling attention to the injury done by mere collectors, who can see 

 nothing in an insect until it is skewered with a pin, and by semi- 

 scientists, to whom an insect, like every other natural object, is simply 

 a thing to be classified, and, once classified, of no further use. The 

 writer's suggestion as to the protection of rare insects is not only not 

 absurd, but interesting and useful. It would not be difficult to show 

 that it is not unpractical. The honour of the entomological brother- 

 hood requires that something be done to check the destruction of rare 

 and local insects by dealers and "omnivorous" collectors, to adopt the 

 "moderate collector's" apt description. That I may not bethought 

 to be out of sympathy with " collecting " in a true, and, if I may apply 

 the term that best expresses the feeling, sportsmanlike sense, I may 

 mention that I have myself been a collector of insects as long as I can 

 remember. I believe I began collecting before I could talk. — Harold 

 Hodge ; 2, Essex Court, Temple, E.G. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Plusia moneta at Reading. — I have great pleasure in recording the 

 capture of a fine specimen of P. moneta, which came to light in my house 

 on July 14th.— H. S. Morris; 5, Southern Hill, Reading, Aug. 16th, 1895. 



Plusia moneta near Tunbridge Wells. — This is the third season 

 now I have had the pleasure of breeding this species, from the same 



