The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . , notto set back (as we suspect this really means) the nomenclature used byits more advanced and up-to-date members to a list (Doubledays) thathas long since been obsolete among the newer generation of lepi-dopterists; all of which, however, detracts nothing from the value ofthe list, as a local list, which shows evidence of great care and know-ledge of the local fauna on the part of the author who compiled it fromhis own observations and those of his co-workers. Our Special Index for vol. xi. (1899), consisting of no less than28 pp. of clos
The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . , notto set back (as we suspect this really means) the nomenclature used byits more advanced and up-to-date members to a list (Doubledays) thathas long since been obsolete among the newer generation of lepi-dopterists; all of which, however, detracts nothing from the value ofthe list, as a local list, which shows evidence of great care and know-ledge of the local fauna on the part of the author who compiled it fromhis own observations and those of his co-workers. Our Special Index for vol. xi. (1899), consisting of no less than28 pp. of closely printed (double-column) references, can now beobtained from Mr. H. E. Page, Bertrose, Gellatly Road, Park, Price Is. Our last volume completed, there-fore, consisted of 352 pp. of letterpress, 8 pp. general index, 28 index, and 2 pp. title page. We suspect 390 pp. solid 8vo.,constitutes a record in the quantity of matter published by any onemonthly entomological magazine in this-country in a year. J Vol. XII. Pl Thk gitksts ok and Termites. Ilitoiii. Hcroid, etc., 1900. JOURNAL OF VARIATION. Vol. XII. No. 3. March 15th, 1900. Digne Revisited. By H. IIOWLAND BROWN, , Digne has been much exploited of late years, and several articleshave appeared in this and other entomological magazines, dealingwith its butterflies. However, as my wanderings led me there at theleast frequented season of the year, some additional remarks may notbe altogether out of place. One always, I find, leaves London eithertoo late or too early for most of the summer insects, unless theholidays fall in July—-the golden month for the collector. Last year the Avaiting time was even longer than usual, for wherever I wentthere Avas the same story of a backward season and delayed , my first week in the famous capital of the Basses-Alpes wasunexpectedly disappointing. With recollections of the year before atHyeres and in the Swiss Alps, where
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