THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLV.] JANUAEY, 1912. [No. 584 



EDITORIAL. 



With very great pleasure we have to announce that Mr. 

 Charles Joseph Gahan has been good enough to join the Refe- 

 rence Committee of this Journal. As an authority on Coleoptera, 

 Mr. Gahan is so widely known that his association with the 

 ' Entomologist ' will enlarge its field of operation, and so enhance 

 its usefulness as a "Journal of General Entomology." 



As there appears to be some misconception about the date of 

 publication of the first volume of the * Entomologist,' we may 

 mention that No. 1 of Vol. L was issued on November 1st, 1840, 

 and No. 26 — concluding the volume — in December, 1842. 



In 1843, and for some twenty years afterwards, the * Ento- 

 mologist ' was merged in the * Zoologist,' but in May, 1864, it 

 was revived, and has continued to appear month by month from 

 that date up to the present time. It should be stated that the 

 first six volumes were double— that is, they each comprised the 

 numbers for two years. 



ON THE VARIATION OF EU STROM A 

 RE TIC ULA TA ( Schiff.) 



By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 

 (Plate I.) 



My little note on Mr. Nurse's interesting aberration of 

 Eustroma reticulata (Entom. xliv. p. 59) seems to have attracted 

 some attention, and has been instrumental in bringing me some 

 really astonishing information as to the occasional capacity for 

 variation of this usually constant species. 



In February Mr. Frank Littlewood, of Kendal, sent me a 

 very fine photograph of the pick of a long series bred by himself 



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