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and recovered in France in November; a Redstart ringed 

 as a nestling in Westmorland in June and recovered in 

 Portugal in October, and three British Lesser Black-backed 

 Gulls all ringed in the north of England, two of which were 

 recovered in Portugal ; the third being got in France in the 

 summer after it was marked. In addition to these there 

 are many other returns well worth the notice of students of 

 ornithology. 



British entomologists should not overlook a paper of 

 some importance by T. D. A. Cockerell, which, although 

 published in America,^ bears for its title "British Fossil 

 Insects." This memoir is based upon the study of the Lacoe 

 collection of fossil insects, now in the United States National 

 Museum, and containing an important series of specimens 

 partly from the Lias and partly from the Oligocene beds of 

 the Isle of Wight, all collected by the Rev. P. B. Brodie. 

 Forty-four new species and eleven new genera are described, 

 the details of many of which are figured in the six plates 

 which accompany the paper. A useful feature is the 

 summary of our knowledge of British fossil insects given 

 at the beginning of the article. From it we learn that 

 altogether ^68 species have been described, distributed in 

 the various geological formations as follows : — Carboni- 

 ferous, 27 ; Lias, 82 ; Oolite, 209 ; Tertiary, 42 ; and Post- 

 tertiary, 8. 



' Proceedings U.S. National Museum (No. 21 19), 191 5, pp. 469-99. 



Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Jura and neighbour- 

 ing islands. — In the January number o{\.\\t Journal of Conchologv 

 (pp. 13-16) J. F. Mushani publishes an account of additions made 

 to the list of Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Jura, Colonsay, 

 Oronsay, and Islay, which islands together form the vice-county 

 known as " Ebudes South." A list is given of forty-eight species 

 and varieties now known to inhabit the area, thirty-eight of which are 

 additions made during two visits paid by the author in June 1908 

 and June 19 13 respectively. 



