44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Société entomologique de France.” The motion for taking the Bul- 
garian T'sar’s name from the list of members was carried unanimously. 
It was announced in the Bull. Soc. ent. France of October 27th last, 
that M. Ch. Kerremans, the President of the Société Entomologique de 
Belgique, died on October 10th, in Brussels, at the age of 70. The 
death was also announced of Prof. Ch. Blachier, of Geneva, on October 
6th last, who was known to many British entomologists and a personal 
friend of our colleague, Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, from whom an 
appreciation appeared in our last issue. 
In the Fnt. for November the Rey. F’. EK. Lowe adds his quota to the 
question of Nordmannia (Thecla) aesculi, and sums up his opinion on 
the results of his captures in many localities in the Tyrol, Switzerland, 
France and Spain, in the suggestion that there are two insects called 
aesculi, viz., the usual Swiss form, which he calls pseudaesculi, and 
which he takes for a form of ilicis, and the aesculi from the South of 
France, etc., which he considers nearer akin to acaciae. Incidentally 
he names a beautiful aberration of the latter ab. auwronitens, a form 
suffused with yellow upperside, with spots on hindmargin of lower 
wings. 
The Canadian Entomologist for October deals mainly with orders 
other than Lepidoptera, of which latter there is an interesting account 
of collecting the genus Catocala in 1914. On several occasions the 
authors collected in Louisiana, with the temperature over 100°. In 
fact the hotter the day apparently the greater the chance of an abun- 
dance of captures. On a number of occasions during the year more 
than a dozen species of this beautiful Noctuid genus were met with. 
In the same number there are descriptions of a number of new species 
in the Rhyncophora (Delphacidae), Hymenoptera (Tenthredinidae), and 
Diptera (T%pulidae), as well as two articles devoted to the question of 
Insect importations to the N. American Continent, from which latter 
we note that in the spring. of 1915 there were found on imported 
nursery stock in New Jersey the following number of species :— 
Acarina, 1 ; Lepidoptera, 7; Coleoptera, 6; Hymenoptera, 4; Homop- 
tera, 9; Hemiptera, 1; and Diptera, 3. Hvetria buoliana ‘‘ came over 
in the larval stage in surprising numbers on six shipments of pines 
from Holland.” 
The Can. Int. for November has an article entitled ‘‘ Some old 
Classifications of Insects,’ which gives a summary of the various 
systems of insect classification from the time of Aristotle to the curious 
quinary system of MacLeay. The list includes Aristotle, Aldrovandi, 
Ray and Willoughby, Swammerdam, Vallisnieri, Linnaeus, Lamarck, 
Latreille, Home, and MacLeay, all of whose systems are detailed. 
This makes a handy reference. 
In the Hint. News for November is a figure of an aberration of 
Huvanessa antiopa, captured in Ohio on a sugar patch. ‘ Three wings 
are normal male, but the left hindwing has the blue dots missing 
altogether, the yellow edge is about 2mm. broader than the edges of 
the other wings, and is of a whitish-yellow. The rest of the wing is 
dull black instead of reddish-brown, and the vein structure is exactly 
the same as that of the other wing.” 
In the Ent. for December, Prof. T. VY. Theobald describes another 
species of Aphid, Macrosiphum lamiti, new to science. It is found at 
Wye, attached to Lamium purpureum. 
