CURRENT NOTES. 7 
completed the fiftieth year of its existence. Material has been collected 
from many sources, and the editorial part will be in the hands of 
Professor J. W. Carr, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., of University College, 
Nottingham. From specimen pages perused there is not only a list of 
species, but localities, habits, and other notes are copiously given, and 
each section will be introduced by general remarks on its character- 
istics, economy, etc. 
It is announced in the daily papers that another area has been be- 
queathed for the preservation of the fauna and flora. The late John 
Frederick Cheetham, formerly M.P. for Stalybridge, has left the wood- 
land adjoining his house “ Hastwood,” near Stalybridge, to be set apart 
as a sanctuary or reserve for the district. It was a matter of great 
interest to those Fellows of the Entomological Society of London who 
were present at the Annual Meeting, to learn from the Address read 
by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, what a number of these areas already 
exist in this country and throughout the world. 
In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for March, Mr. F. W. Edwards, B.A., has an 
article endeavouring to put straight the names of several common 
British Diptera, which had become almost hopelessly tangled owing to 
incorrect application, or long persistent failure to consult and compare 
the work.of the original authors with the gradual acquisitions of 
knowledge. 
In the Naturalist for March, Mr. J. W. H. Harrison, B.Sc., 
introduced the Neuropteron, Alewropteryx (Helicoconis) lutea, as a 
species new to Britain. His specimens were captured by himself in 
July last year while beating larches.and birches at Wolsingham, Co. 
Durham. This species has previously been recorded from Sweden, 
Finland, N. Siberia, and subalpine districts in Austria. 
In the Hnt. Mo. Mag. for January, Mr. KH. Meyrick announces a 
species of Lepidoptera as new to Britain. A specimen of Depressaria 
hepatariella was taken in Scotland by the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe, and 
identified as this species by Mr. Meyrick. It is related to D. cincella, 
and occurs from the Carinthian Alps to Lapland, and has been reported 
from Hoiland, but is noted as being very local wherever it occurs. At 
the same time, Mr. Meyrick reports the occurrence of a New Zealand 
species of Lyonetiidae, Dryadaula pactolia on more than one occasion 
in the cellars of Mr. C. G. Clutterbuck, of Gloucester. It is suggested 
that this species may have been imported among ferns received at a 
neighbouring nursery. 
We regret to announce the death of Wm. Brooks, of Grange Hall, 
near Rotherham, who was run over by a motor-bus and instantaneously 
killed some weeks ago. He was known as a collector of British 
Lepidoptera. In the “‘ Entomologist,’ 1884, page 288, is a note from 
him announcing Callimorpha hera from Devonshire. For the next two 
or three years, he alone regularly announced his captures of this 
species and gave the precise locality as Star-cross. The authenticity 
of these records were, strange to say, considerably doubted at the time, 
until our old friend, Mr. J. Jager, in 1886 and subsequent years, not 
only captured long series, but with Mr. G. Porritt and others, obtained 
larvee and bred the species in numbers. More recently Mr. Brooks 
bred Manduca atropos in large numbers, and many of our collections 
contain fine examples of this species of his breeding. 
In the Hntomologist for March, Prof. Fred V. Theobald, M.A., 
