﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  7 
  

  

  the 
  Tabanidge 
  of 
  Formosa. 
  Captain 
  Hingston's 
  recently 
  issued 
  book, 
  

   A 
  Naturalist 
  in 
  Himalaya, 
  also 
  contains 
  several 
  interesting 
  chapters 
  on 
  

   insects 
  of 
  the 
  Hazara 
  district. 
  

  

  Whilst 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  recent 
  publications 
  there 
  are 
  some 
  sins 
  of 
  

   commission 
  and 
  omission 
  to 
  which 
  I 
  wish 
  to 
  draw 
  your 
  attention. 
  In 
  

   the 
  former 
  category 
  may 
  be 
  included 
  such 
  items 
  as 
  misleading 
  titles 
  of 
  

   publications. 
  To 
  give 
  specific 
  instances, 
  I 
  may 
  refer 
  to 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Hendel 
  

   in 
  Annals 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Hungarian 
  Museum, 
  Vol. 
  XIII 
  (December 
  

   1915), 
  which 
  purports 
  to 
  describe 
  Diptera 
  from 
  Formosa 
  but 
  (p. 
  448) 
  

   contains 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  fly 
  from 
  Darjiling. 
  A 
  second 
  example 
  

   of 
  the 
  same 
  sort 
  of 
  thing 
  is 
  instanced 
  in 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Morley 
  which 
  

   appeared 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  London 
  for 
  1919 
  

   and 
  which 
  was 
  entitled, 
  " 
  On 
  Some 
  Equatorial 
  and 
  other 
  Species 
  and 
  

   Genera 
  of 
  African 
  Ichneumoninae 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum" 
  ; 
  in 
  a 
  paper 
  with 
  such 
  a 
  title 
  one 
  hardly 
  expects 
  to 
  find 
  

   two 
  Indian 
  species 
  described 
  as 
  new. 
  S^uch 
  examples 
  could 
  be 
  multiplied 
  

   were 
  it 
  profitable 
  to 
  do 
  so. 
  The 
  effect 
  f 
  the 
  not 
  infrequent 
  use 
  of 
  such 
  

   misleading 
  titles 
  is 
  that 
  one's 
  work 
  in 
  trying 
  to 
  keep 
  abreast 
  of 
  literature 
  

   on 
  Indian 
  Insects 
  is 
  unnecessarily 
  and 
  unfairly 
  increased, 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  

   course 
  of 
  every 
  year 
  one 
  has 
  to 
  go 
  over 
  thousands 
  of 
  pages 
  of 
  literature 
  

   merely 
  to 
  see 
  whether 
  it 
  contains 
  anything 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  us 
  in 
  India 
  not 
  

   revealed 
  by 
  the 
  titles 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  papers, 
  and 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  we 
  are 
  

   entitled 
  to 
  protest 
  against 
  such 
  a 
  state 
  of 
  affairs. 
  

  

  Another 
  point 
  which 
  I 
  wish 
  to 
  bring 
  to 
  your 
  notice 
  concerns 
  especi- 
  

   ally 
  many 
  of 
  our 
  Indian 
  publications 
  containing 
  entomological 
  papers 
  

   and 
  is 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  correct 
  dating 
  of 
  such 
  publications. 
  The 
  

   Indian 
  Journal 
  of 
  Medical 
  Research 
  is 
  a 
  particularly 
  flagrant 
  offender 
  

   in 
  this 
  respect 
  ; 
  the 
  part 
  dated 
  January 
  1920 
  did 
  not 
  come 
  to 
  hand 
  until 
  

   June, 
  and 
  the 
  part 
  dated 
  April 
  1920 
  until 
  November, 
  whilst 
  the 
  parts 
  

   which 
  will 
  presumably 
  be 
  dated 
  July 
  1920, 
  October 
  1920 
  and 
  January 
  

   1921 
  have 
  not 
  come 
  to 
  hand 
  yet. 
  A 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Bombay 
  

   Natural 
  History 
  Society 
  bears 
  on 
  its 
  cover 
  the 
  words 
  " 
  Date 
  of 
  Publica- 
  

   tion, 
  1st 
  July 
  1920 
  " 
  but 
  my 
  copy 
  did 
  not 
  reach 
  me 
  until 
  30th 
  September 
  

   1920 
  and, 
  as 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Committee 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  I 
  receive 
  an 
  

   early 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  Journal, 
  so 
  that 
  I 
  cannot 
  suppose 
  that 
  the 
  

   actual 
  date 
  of 
  publication 
  was 
  earlier 
  than 
  September. 
  Bearing 
  in 
  

   mind 
  the 
  old 
  saying 
  about 
  glass 
  houses, 
  I 
  may 
  add 
  that 
  our 
  own 
  publica- 
  

   tions 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  without 
  sin 
  in 
  this 
  respect 
  ; 
  for 
  example, 
  Mr. 
  Misra's 
  

   Memoir 
  on 
  N&photettix 
  bears 
  the 
  date 
  " 
  May 
  1920 
  " 
  on 
  the 
  cover 
  but 
  was 
  

   not 
  actually 
  published 
  until 
  3rd 
  August 
  1920. 
  I 
  am 
  quite 
  aware 
  that 
  

   most 
  of 
  these 
  errors 
  are 
  due 
  to 
  delays 
  in 
  the 
  press 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  misdating 
  

   of 
  such 
  publications 
  is 
  due 
  rather 
  to 
  ignorance 
  of 
  or 
  carelessness 
  regard- 
  

  

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