90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows informs us that he has deposited the 
Type specimens of Hydroecia crinanensis, Burrows and H. asiatica, 
Burrows, at the British Museum (Natural History), and the Co-types 
at the Hope University Museum, Oxford, these deposits consist of the 
wing parts and the mounted genitalia of both sexes. Accompanying 
each are similar sets of HA. nictitans, Bkh., H. lucens, H.S., and 
Hi. paludis, Tutt, and Mounts of the sexes of H. americana, Spe. 
Mr. Burrows has also been able to deposit specimens of H. crinanensis, 
thanks to Mr. J. HE. R. Allen—and of H. asiatica, thanks to Dr. T. A. 
Chapman. The whole illustrate Mr. Burrows’ Paper “On the 
nictitans group of the Genus Hydroecia, Gn,” read before the 
Entomological Society of London, December 6th, 1911, and printed 
in the Transactions of the Society for 1911-12, p. 738. Dr. Chapman 
writes that he deposited the Type specimen of his H. burrowst, 
described in the Entomologist’s Record, May 15th, 1912, at the 
Natural History Museum, soon after his description was published. 
In the January number of the Hnt. News are some very excellent 
comments on labelling. After remarking that it has become a recog- 
nised practice to fully label all new forms as “ type”’ specimens, the 
editor goes on to say, ‘It is probably much less common to mark 
material which, without being typical of new taxonomic forms, is the 
basis of published figures illustrating either whole structures or details 
of anatomy. Yet this also is very important and highly desirable, as 
it will enable a later investigator, examining that material, to explain, 
in many cases, why two writers on the same subject have reached 
divergent conclusions. The converse of this practice is also desirable, 
viz., that the legends or explanations accompanying such published 
figures should indicate the exact place in a given lot of material from 
which the illustration has been made. For example, in connection 
with a drawing based on one section of a microtome series, it should 
be stated on which slide, in which row on the slide, and in what posi- 
tion (number) in that row that section is to be found. One of the 
many good offices rendered by the late Prof. John B. Smith to ento- 
mology was to mount in balsam the preparations of the mouth-parts 
illustrated on plates v-x. accompanying Dr. G. H. Horn’s memoir ‘‘ On 
the Genera of Carabidae.” Horn had left these upon pinned cards 
labelled with the generic name. Smith transferred them to standard 
microscopic slides, each one of which is labelled. As long as these 
slides (now at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) are in 
existence, it will always be possible for the students of the ground 
beetles to comprehend Horn’s results. It is to be hoped that all ento- 
mologists will follow the example set by the recent State Hntomologist 
of New Jersey.” 
In a recent number of the Journal of Economic Entomology, 
New York, is another important contribution by P. J. Parrott and 
his collaborators on the connection of Tree-crickets with bark disease. 
The results of their investigations and experiments are summarized as 
follows :— 
1. The crickets fed readily on diseased areas of apple and raspberry 
canes, even when foliage and plant-lice were abundantly supplied. A 
large proportion of the pellets of excreta contained spores of one or 
other fungus, in some cases of both. 
2. When crickets were starved for two days before feeding, spores 
passed through the intestinal canal in about six and a half hours, 
