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Gnophos ohscurata, Hemerophila ahruptaria, Hyherniaprogemmaria, 

 Phigalia pilosaria, Acronyctapsi, Agrotis corticea, Aplecta nehulosa, 

 Polia cJii, Vemtsia cambrica, Xijlophasia p)olyodon. 



6. The Schedule in which it is suggested that the returns 

 should be made is enclosed (Schedule A). It is desired that the 

 return for each species be made on a separate Schedule, and the 

 Secretary will be glad to furnish a supply of these schedules to 

 any one who may be willing to assist. 



7. Since confirmatory evidence is of especial value, the 

 Committee are desirous of receiving returns made independently 

 by different persons for the same district. It is of course hoped 

 that returns may be obtained for districts in which the dark 

 forms are still unknown. 



8. The Secretary will be glad to examine and prepare de- 

 scriptions of any illustrative specimens lent to him for that 

 purpose, and in suitable cases arrangements will be made for 

 photographing such specimens. 



9. Historical Evidence. As the changes in question have 

 largely taken place within living memory, it is hoped that those 

 who have personal knowledge of the facts may be induced to put 

 them on record in such detail as is still possible. Much infor- 

 mation of an historical character is of course already printed in 

 the scientific journals, but a more detailed account of the facts 

 would be of great value. With this object a special Schedule (B) 

 marked " Historical " will be issued to those who will fill it up. 



10. On publication full acknowledgment will be made of all 

 help received. All communications should be addressed to the 

 Secretary of the Evolution Committee, W. Bateson, Esq., F.R.S., 

 Merton House, Grantchester, Cambridge. 



May, 1900. 



"ENTOMOLOGY IN NEW ZEALAND." 

 By G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. 



Under the above somewhat comprehensive title Mr. Ambrose 

 Quail has {ante, p. 5) really given the readers of your valuable 

 magazine a criticism of my recently published book on New 

 Zealand Macro-Lepidoptera. To call an essay, however learned, 

 which deals with only a portion of one of the orders of the great 

 class Insecta, a paper on " entomology " is, to my mind, some- 

 what misleading, and I think that it would have been more 

 straightforward and accurate on Mr. Quail's part had he openly 

 named his article as a criticism on my book, This would also 

 have given me a better chance of replying to his strictures. 



The opening passages in Mr. Quail's paper do not, I think, 

 tend to show that he is specially qualified to criticise even such 



