20 THE entomologist's r.ECORD, 



non-workers. The sectionising of the Union into small groups of 

 workers seems to be conducive to good results and gives an opportunity 

 for each and all to take a definite part in some special investigation or 

 join in some scientific study for the advancement of knowledge. 



In the October Magazines the following items are more or less 

 interesting. 



(1) In the Canadian Entoniolof/ist, is announced the death of Dr. 

 William Saunders, one of the founders of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, at the ripe age of 79. For many years after his retirement 

 from his business as a druggist, in 1886, he had been Director of the 

 Experimental Farms of the Dominion. 



(2) In the Scottish Xatiiralist, Mr. Wm. Evans commenced an 

 account of the Lepidoptera (moths) captured at Scottish lighthouses 

 mainly in the Forth area. Fully 6,000 moths, of which 4,000 were 

 from the Isle of May lighthouse alone, have been sent to him. On 

 one night in July no less than 400 specimens of 80 species were 

 secured, on another in September, 1918, 857 specimens of 11 species 

 were sent to him from Killantringan. It is interesting to note that 

 several examples of At/lais urticac and one each of Pi/rauieis atalanta 

 and Pobjoniviatus icanis were included among the insects forwarded. 

 Among the Noctuids were examples of two which are always considered 

 very rare so far north, viz., Luperina ceapitis and Cerij/o matnra. 



(8) The Rev. W. F. Johnson contributed some interesting 

 observations on infrequent species of Lepidoptera in Ireland to the 

 Irish Naturalist. Afflais urticae commenced hybernation in the latter 

 half of July. A specimen of Mamhica atropos was sent to him by the 

 Rev. J. Jennings on June 24th. Both Einnorpha elpenor and Theretra 

 porcellns were sent to him from Donegal. Hemaris titijns {bo)iibi/liformis) 

 was taken in Armagh. A nest of the larvae of Hyponomeuta euony- 

 niellus (padi) was met with at Newcastle, Co. Down. The larvje of 

 Plutella crHciteranihi occurred only too plentifully on cabbage at 

 Poyntzpass. 



(4) In the FJnt. Mo. Ma;/. Dr. Chapman gave a note on the 

 Pyrenaean Psychid r>)-fo^).s//c7u'/)//''f"«t'^^«i with a plate of larval structures. 



(5) In the same number Mr. C. G. R. Waters gave a list vfith 

 localities of the Pj/ralides, Pterophori, Cramhi, and Tortrices taken at 

 Oxford and the adjoining country from Chinnor to Wantage. 



(6) In the same number Mr. T. W. Kirkpatrick contributed a List 

 of Marlborough Diptera and has included a species new to the British 

 list, viz., Trichocera hirtipes, and Mr. J. R. Collin adds a further note 

 on the status of the species. 



(7) In the Entonwloi/ist, Mr. Percy C. Reid by his account of a 

 visit to Shetland, recalls to mind the various visits which were, during 

 the latter part of the century, an annual feature of the Retrospects in 

 our magazines. Most of the special species and local forms appear to 

 have turned up in more or less quantity. 



The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, the authorities of the 

 United States National Museum, have sent us the following recent 

 publications: — Lejiidoptera of the Yale-Dominican Expedition of 1913, 

 by Harrison G. Dyar. Orthoptera of the Yale-Dominican Expedition 

 of 1913, by A. N. Caudell. Hymenoptcra of the Yale-Peruvian Expedi- 

 tion ot 1911, by P. R. Myers. (Addendum). Nen- Species and Genera 

 of Lepidoptera from Mexico, by Harrison G. Dyar. Xew X. American 



