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and he tells me both species are also represented among the 

 specimens he collected then. William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Two Anthomyidse new to the British List During my 

 short visit to Scotland in June and July 1912, I collected a number 

 of specimens of Diptera and Hymenoptera for the United States 

 National Museum, which are now incorporated in the collection 

 here. Amongst the Anthomyidse taken at Dunoon, there are two 

 specimens of Fannia Uneata, Stn., a species not included in my 

 recent paper on the genus. In some respects this species resembles 

 serena, Fin., but it may be known by its rather larger size. The 

 pale-coloured calyptrae are unequal in size, and the posterior surface 

 of the hind femur is long-haired to beyond the middle; other- 

 wise very similar to serena. 



The other species is described as Steinomyia Steiui, Malloch, in 

 the volume of the Proceedings of the United States National Museum 

 for 1912 (vol. xliii., p. 656). It is very close to Fannia, except in 

 the frontal bristling, the $ possessing two pairs of outer fronto-orbital 

 bristles besides the normal inner rows present in Fannia. There 

 are three males in the collection taken at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, 

 in June 1907 and 1908. J. R. Malloch, Bureau of Entomology, 

 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ; Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



The British Warblers : A History with Problems of Their 

 Lives. Part 7. By H. Eliot Howard, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., illustrated 

 by Henrik Gronvold. London : R. H. Porter. 



The seventh part of the history of the British Warblers deals with 

 the Marsh- warble 1, the Great Reed-warbler, and the Aquatic Warbler ; 

 the bulk of the part being naturally devoted to the first-named native 

 biid, it is sufficient to say that this part of Mr Howard's monograph is 

 quite equal to the preceding instalments, and that his readers will once 

 again realise they are reading the observations d a lifetime, with 

 deductions founded on the same. There is no bird book which enters 

 so fully either into the life-history of the birds under notice or into the 

 problems connected with their lives ; and the author is again to be 

 congratulated on the entirely original nature of his work a work 

 which reflects immense credit on his powers of patient and accurate 

 observation. The illustrations which number six (two coloured plates and 

 four photogravures) have as usual been entrusted to Mr Henrik Gronvold, 

 whose plates for accuracy and artistic merit seem to reach the high- 



