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(3) In the Entomolofjist, Mr. W. G. Sheldon has commenced an 

 interesting account of an " Expedition in Search of Russian Butter- 

 flies," giving the results of a long holiday spent by Mr. A. H. Jones 

 and himself mainly at Sarepta, some three hundred miles from the 

 mouth of the Volga. 



(4) To the same magazine the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe, who is 

 collaborating with Mr. F. N. Pierce in the study of the genitalia of the 

 British Tortrices, contributed an article on some of our local Cnvnhi. 

 He reports that Lithosia liitardla \{iY. piji/niacola, Crambus containinelhts, 

 Xycfeiirctt'f! achatinella, Melissoblaptes anellus {bipnnctanns), Retiuia 

 purdeiji, etc., were easily obtainable, by those who knew their peculiar 

 habits, in their old Deal habitats. 



(5) Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, in the Ent. Mo. Ma>/., contributed a list 

 with a few notes of the 343 species of Coleoptera taken by him at 

 Cloghane, Co. Kerry, during a short visit in the spring. 



(6) To the same magazine Commander J. J. Walker is contributing 

 a very comprehensive article on the Geographical Distribution of 

 PanaiiJa ple.rippus and its recent migrations. 



Mr. Bagnall writes, " The war has affected me in other ways. As 

 you know I was writing the volume on Thysanoptera for Das Tierreich 

 and had hoped to send the MS. for the first part to Berlin in April, 

 1915, whilst I had intended to set aside this winter for the preparation 

 of a Monograph of the Tertiary Thysanoptera — chiefly based on a 

 large and unique collection of Thrips preserved in Baltic amber — to be 

 published in Konigsberg (!!) Now my opportunities for research will 

 be very much curtailed, but I feel that I am beginning to get the 

 Order (Thysanoptera) into a better working condition, and I think of 

 shortly publishing a Catalogue of the World's Species, with an Index 

 of generic names used to the end of 1914, and a Bibliography. This 

 would form at any rate a basis to work on." 



A Year's Scientific Worl; in Yorkshire, being the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists Union's Fifty-second Annual Report, is always interesting 

 reading. It consists of some 20 pages of matter. The reports of the 

 secretaries of the various sections take up by far the greater part of 

 the account. The Vertebrate Section has detailed notes from the 

 four Ridings of Yorkshire, from the Wild Birds Protection Committee 

 and from the Mammals, Reptiles, etc., Committee, including accounts 

 of the watching at Hornsea Mere, Spurn and Bempton. The 

 Conchological Section has notes from the various Ridings and from 

 the Marine Biological Committee. The Entomological Section has 

 reports on Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and 

 Hemiptera, Neuroptera and Orthoptera, and Arachnida. In the 

 Botanical Section are Notes on the Flora, Reports of the Botanical 

 Survey Committee of the Bryological Committee, of the Mycological 

 Committee and Notes on the Alg;t. The Geological Section contams 

 notes on the practical work which has been carried out in a number of 

 specified localities, Report of the Jurassic Flora Committee, Report of 

 the Glacial Committee and Report of the Coast Erosion Committee. 

 There is also a Report from the Committee dealing with Micro-Botany 

 and Micro- Zoology. The official organ of the Union is the Xatiiralint, 

 in which accounts of much of the individual work of meml)ers of the 

 Union are recorded month by month. It would seem from this report 

 that the Union, which has less than 400 members, must have few 



