On Wu-iattoii in the Waisel and Iledyehijij. 2i.i 



1886)— Kss5o— Hiikodatc, VI II. 1886 {Leech). Uoxdo— 

 YokoliiiiDii '. Kivsiu {Lnrch, I8U0) — Satsuina, V. 1:5 -jG 

 {Leech). 



'i'liis is not a true Ar(jijroi>locc, as it docs not possess a 

 tlioiacic tult; it cannot be ictcrred to L'narmonia, as at 

 present constituted, since veins ."^ and 4 of the hind wino-s are 

 connate, not stalked. 



[To be continued.] 



XXX I II. — yote on I '(trial ion in the WeaspJ and Hedgehog. 

 By G. E. II. Barhf:tt-1Iamilton. 



I IIAVK read with much interest the two notes by Dr. Einar 

 Lonnberg wliich appeared in the * Annals ' for May and 

 June lyUO. In these days of much writing and little atten- 

 tion it is pleasant to find that one's work attracts notice, 

 even if that notice be critical or condemnatory. It is doubly 

 valual)le to receive criticism from one who resides in Scandi- 

 navia, a country whose climate and configuration lends itself 

 in a very peculiar manner to the formation of local subspecies 

 of mammal.*!, or, in other words, to variation. 



Before noticing Dr. Lonnberg's remarks I may say, by 

 way of preface, that in my studies of European maunnals 

 n)y main olij"Ct has been, first to record, and secondly tj 

 throw light, however dimly, upon the origin of the numerous 

 variatiitns which occur. The making of species or subspecies 

 is therefore to me of quite subsidiary iin[)orta ice, an I 1 care 

 not a jot whether the forms upon which 1 find it necessary 

 to bestow technical names be styled species, subsp;icies, 

 races, forms, or phases. On the whole 1 incline to the latter 

 word ; but the use of the term subspecies is now so general 

 and, 1 had thought, so well understood that 1 have found it 

 convenient. No one who works for atiy little time at such 

 matters can fail to meet with numberless difficulties or to 

 notice the itiequality between the various subsfjecies. Tiiat, 

 however, is the fault of the system, or, if you like, of the 

 animals themselves, which refuse to accommodate themselves 

 to any scheme which man can invent, and which conse- 

 quently excite the frequent protests of those who fail to see 

 the troubles which must beset any system of minute in(juiry. 

 Even, however, if I were to find that 1 had ma !•• nuincrou-; 



