CURRENT NOTES. 277 
DonistHorpEa Mor. and Drnt. = § LASIUS (nec Jurine), F. 
Syst. Piez., pp. xi., 415-8, no. 78, sp. 1-10, Ind. 18 (1804) ; Auctt.... 
eter ee ee Mor. and: Drnt., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1914, 423 
1915). * CHTHONOLASIUS (nec Ruzsky) Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool., 
24, 460 (1916). 
This synonymy will appear in the Transactions of the Entomo- 
logical Society of London. 
G@YURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
In the Entomologist for October Mr. Jas. Edwards has an article 
with figures on the so called Norfolk Hesperia alveus. By the genitalia 
he gives it as has his opinion that the specimen is H. armoricanus, and 
illustrates his notes with diagrams of the genitalia of both H. alveus 
and H. armoricanus. He has also some interesting remarks re the 
“ edeagus-guides,’ which will no doubt cause some discussion. Mr. 
C. B. Williams is commencing a series of articles on the British 
Thysanoptera with Biological and Systematic Notes. Mr. G. T. Lyle 
contributes additions to our knowledge of the British Braconidae. 
At a recent sale of insects in Stevens’ Sale Rooms some £50 was 
obtained for the Red Cross from a series of lots contributed by a few 
entomologists. The idea we understand originated not far from 
Enfield. 
From pamphlets which are continually reaching us we understand 
that very considerable attention is being paid to tree-crickets in 
America. These insects have been found to be carriers of various fell 
diseases which attack fruit and forest trees and cause immense injury 
to the trunks and branches, by the spread of which injuries large areas 
are much devasted. Spores and mycelium of many kinds of fungi 
have been found in the excreta of these insects, and since they plaster 
the oviposition punctures in the bark with their excrement, germination 
readily occurs on the moisture of the atmosphere reaching the patches. 
“Canker’’ thus sets in and in time the tree attacked is doomed. 
Messrs. Gloyer and Fulton of New York State have for some time been 
experimenting with these crickets and have published their observations 
from time to time in the Technical Bulletins published by the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture of New York State. 
In the Canadian Entomologist for October the editor of the Bulletin 
of the Brooklyn Entomological Society makes some interesting remarks 
anent an Iiditor’s duties. Some of his statements are quite interesting. 
“TI do not believe that the average subscriber to our entomological 
journals finds an average of more than two interesting papers out of a 
dozen in an average number.” ‘The Editor has to read all papers.” 
“The casual reader gives two minutes, where he gives hours.” ‘‘ Most 
amateurs are interested in Lepidoptera.” ‘‘The greatest number of 
students are collectors of Coleoptera.” ‘* Additions to the sum total 
of human knowledge are more in the lesser known Orders; of these 
there are few amateurs to read.’”’ The Editor “tries to balance his 
subjects . . . in the effort to please as many as possible, one succeeds 
in pleasing almost no-one.” We call special attention to the following 
remark when speaking of how necessary it is for every worker to possess 
