112 THK KNTO.MOLOGIST's RECORD, 



Larentia (Uihjtiiata. — Some eggs laid singly, attached to the box in 

 which a $ was confined ; other eggs deposited loosely. The e.^g is pale 

 yellow in colour. It forms a flattened oval disc, length : breadth : : 

 4 : 3. The ends are rounded, the surface smooth and shiny. No 

 further detail can be made out by using a two-thirds lens as a hand lens. 

 [Described August 8th, from eggs laid by a $ captured on Mont 

 Cenis (Lanslebourg)] . — J, W. Tutt. 



li^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



British Orthoptera. — (By Malcolm Burr, F.Z.S., F.E.S., with 

 6 plates by S. L. Mosley, F.E.S. : Huddersfield, 1897, 8vo., 168 pp.. 

 Plates i-v). — We welcome a work that will create increased interest in 

 an order so neglected in the British Isles as Orthoptera, for this little 

 book will enable the student to identify any species he may capture 

 in this country ; it gives also some interesting notes on the insects and 

 their habits, with full lists of the localities in which the various species 

 have been hitherto taken. We are sorry that we cannot give unstinted 

 praise to all the figures ; the colouring is very poor. In PI. i., the 

 colouring is scarcely correct, Forjicula auricularla is not uniformly 

 testaceous, and A. inaritima and A. anmdipes should be shining black. 

 There are surely several errors also in the explanation of this plate. Again 

 in Plates iii. and iv., the colouring is scarcely correct, and in this latter 

 plate the drawing is inaccurate ; the ovipositor of M. varini)} is not of the 

 right shape, and we do not see the spots that characterise the elytra 

 of I), verrucivonis. It is a pity that the proofs have not been read 

 more carefully, as we see several errors that might have been avoided. 

 Forjicula Icsuei is included in the " Notes and Additions," but the points 

 which separate this species from F. piibcscens might have been given, 

 to clear up the doubt which surrounds the claim of the latter to be 

 regarded as British. On the whole, in spite of faults which might 

 have been avoided, and for which the author is frequently in no way 

 responsible, the book will prove useful to entomologists who wish to 

 turn their attention to an interesting but neglected order, and we hope 

 to see a great increase of attention paid to the Orthoptera, now 

 that there is a means of identifying the species. 



INFORMATION WANTED. 



I shall esteem it a great favour if every reader of the Entomologist'' s 

 Record, who has ever captured any species of Micropteri/.v [Erinccphala, 

 Curt.) or Ncpticnla, either in the British Islands, or abroad, will give 

 me as full particulars as possible on all or any one of the following 

 points: Locality, dates (years, months and day, if possible), habitat, 

 variation of imago, description of larva, mine, cocoon (and where 

 placed), pupa, mode of dehiscence, etc. The species wanted are : — 

 (1) Micropteri/A- calthella, seppella, aruncella, aureatdla [all ionella) , 

 thunberi/flla and viansnetella. (2) Any species of Nepticula that has 

 occurred in Britain. If any of our readers in Scandinavia, Finland, 

 Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, or 

 any other country where these occur, will send me a list showing the 

 distribution of these species in their country, I shall be very grateful. — 

 J. W. Tutt, Wcstcombe Hill, London, S.E, 



