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elsewhere. His memoir on the British species of Haliplus^ 

 should be of the greatest service to the Coleopterists of this 

 country. The author discusses the value of the principal 

 characters which have hitherto been used in the differentia- 

 tion of the species, and then proceeds to a consideration of 

 the various forms which have been recorded as British, 

 giving under each species in a novel tabular form a general 

 summary of characters. The distribution is also given in 

 detail, and naturally Scottish localities figure largely. 



Several other entomological papers worthy of mention 

 have appeared during the past month. J. W. H. Harrison 

 contributes a first instalment of an article on the Hybrids of 

 the genus Oporabia, a group of Geometrid Moths - ; Colonel 

 R. H. Rattray writes on the larval and pupal stages in some of 

 the " Clear-wing " Moths "^ ; while F. N. Pierce and the Rev. 

 J. W. Metcalfe give the descriptions of three new species of 

 British Tortricida;.^ 



Under the title of " Notes on Anemones from the Mill- 

 port Marine Biological Station,'' Richard Elmhirst furnishes^ 

 some observations on the behaviour in captivity and other- 

 wise of several species of these beautiful Invertebrates. 

 Actinia equina was kept for as long as five years, during 

 which period it grew considerably, producing a few young 

 each year. Two specimens of another species, Stoviphia 

 cJmrchicE, lived for a year within a few inches to a foot of each 

 other, but on one occasion the smaller of the two was 

 observed " sitting " in the mouth of the larger. There was 

 no sign of any struggle, and about an hour and a half after 

 they were first noticed in this position the smaller anemone 

 began to emerge from its peculiar resting-place, the larger 

 specimen curling back its tentacles so as to afford a free 

 exit. No explanation is offered of this curious behaviour. 



1 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., January 1915, pp. 97-124, plates vii. 

 and viii. 



- Entotnologist, January 191 5, pp. 1-6. ^ Ibid., pp. 9-12. 



^ E?it. Mo. Mag., January 191 5, pp. 8-1 1. 

 '" Zoologist, January 1915, pp. 21-24. 



