1898.] 225 



damp, and then they adhere together, which makes them still more 

 like the ground they lie upon. 



I should like to know if any other person in England has bred it 

 before ; I do not know of any record of the fact. 



Dr. Mayr says the flies appear in July of the second year. The 

 drought of the past month might be the cause of the flies not appear- 

 ing earlier ; the galls, however, were watered about once a week, and 

 kept in the garden out of the rays of the sun. 



Stonehouse : 



August 15th, 1898. 



NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION OF CUETIS' BEITISH ENTOMOLOG-T 



BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 



AND 



JNO. HARTLEY DURRANT, F.E.S. 



Stainton, Ent. Mo. Mag., XXTII, 221— 3 (1887) collated the first 

 and second editions of Curtis' British Entomology, and wrote : — 

 " This second edition bears no date ; but references are made in the 

 reprint of folio 16 to Stephens' ' Illustrations,' and a description is 

 copied from that work, which, by a reference to the page of the 

 Illustrations, we learn was published ' August 30th, 1834.' The date 

 must, therefore, have been subsequent to that, and before the com- 

 pletion of the last (the 16th) volume of the British Entomology, the 

 dedication page of which bears the date December 1st, 1839." 



Stainton was doubtless right, from internal evidence, in assigning 

 a date later than August 30th, 1834, to the reprint of folio 16, but 

 his deductions do not apply to the whole of the second edition. Eor 

 in the Zoological Journal, IV, 496 (January — May, 1829) the follow- 

 ing note occurs : — " The publication of a second edition of the first 

 number of Mr. Curtis's work, affords evidence that it has met with the 

 encouragement and support it deserves. This is distinguished from 

 the first edition by the increased quantity of letter-press, the genera 

 being illustrated more fully, and the whole of the species con- 

 tained in each of them being characterized, their habitats and times of 

 appearance mentioned, &c., so as to form succinct Monographs, so far 

 as the British Entomologist is concerned, of the groups comprehended 

 in it." 



It would appear that Lovell Eeeve's edition is a reprint of the 

 second edition of Curtis, but we are at present unable to collate them. 



Merton Hall, Tlietford : 

 June, 1898. 



