214 Notes and Comments. 
ANOTHER MUDDLE. 
In the very next paragraph Mr. G. C. Champion finds that 
since he recorded Stenus oscillator for Killarney he has searched 
among his old duplicates and has found various small Stenus 
tarsalis so like S. oscillator that ‘it is more than probable that 
the latter will prove to be a small form of that variable species.’ 
And further on he writes: ‘ The Killarney insect recorded by 
me as S. oscillator cannot be separated from small S. tarsalis.’ 
All this means, we presume, that a little search among the 
author’s own material, possibly causing a month’s delay in 
publishing the ‘ record,’ would have prevented the error and 
confusion. i 
STILL ANOTHER WRONG RECORD. 
A page or two further on, in the same journal, and we 
find that Mr. R. C. L. Perkins writes on ‘ Andrena niveata 
Friese, probably wrongly recorded as British,’ and presumably 
by Mr. Perkins. Anyway, it seems that Professor Alfken 
doubted the occurrence of miveata in Britain, and sent Mr. 
Perkins specimens of ‘ A. schenckella Pérez (=nana Schenck, 
Schmiedn. nec Kirby) [!} which entirely agree with British 
specimens supposed to be niveata taken by myself. . . . It 
is therefore very doubtful whether A. miveata is a British 
species at all, as my specimens, taken in such different localities 
as Suffolk, Oxford, and Devon are certainly to be referred to, 
as A. schenckella.’ 
MANCHESTER ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
The Tenth Annual Report and Transactions of the Man- 
chester Entomological Society* contains a. good report of a 
good year’s work. Besides particulars of the various exhibits 
at the Society’s meetings, it includes ‘Local Records’ ; 
Descriptions of Abraxas grossulariata (with plate), by Mr. 
B. H. Crabtree; Mr. H. S, Leigh gives “some particulars, a 
few of which have been previously published,’ respecting ‘ the 
life-history of the Leaf-Insect and the Mantis’; Mr. J. H. 
Watson gives ‘ Notes on the Actias Group of Saturnidide and 
Descriptions of two new Genera,’ and ‘ The Genus Philosamia 
(Grote) and its Hybrids.’ We are indebted to Messrs. Tait 
and Crabtree for the loan of the interesting block shown on 
Plate XI. ’ 
WILD LIFE. 
What must surely be perfection in the way of an illustrated 
matural history journal has recently been issued, with the 
above title, under the editorship of Mr. Douglas English, 
assisted by Mr. J. Simpson as Art Editor. The publishers 
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* Manchester, I913, pp. 90. 1s. 6d. 
Naturalist, 
