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BAURETTii AND BoARMiA REPANDATA. — Mr. L. W. Newiiian exhibited a 

 long and varied series of Dianihoecia banettii, bred from wild larvfe 

 collected in Co. Cork, and from dug pupje from B. Devon. Hybrid 

 Amorpha populi and Smerixthus ocelt^atus. — Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited 

 a specimen of the hybrid A. popiili 3' X S. oceUatus 5 , bred ab uvo, 

 which emerged September 11th, 1914. Mr. Tonge said he was 

 informed that this was the first larva frorm the crossing which had 

 hatched normally. Aberrant Rumicia PHL,iEAs. — Mr. Tonge also 

 exhibited a specimen of li. fildaca^, taken on Deal Sandhills in 

 September, 1914, without the red marginal band on the hindwings. 

 Stylopised Sand-wasp. — Mr. G. Meade- Waldo exhibited a stylopised 

 specimen of the Sand-wasp, Ai)iiiiophila ti/dci, Guill., from South 

 Africa. South European Butterflies. — Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited 

 some South European butterflies, chiefly from the south of France. 

 Xanthic Psilura monacha. — Mr. Rippon exhibited, a variety of /'. 

 vionaclia, which, as far as he had been able to ascertain, had not been 

 previously recorded. The variation consists in the body being banded 

 with black and ycUoir instead of black andrc////.vr;;;. Tripii.ena fimbria. 

 — Mr. Rippon also exhibited five specimens of Triiiluiena /intbria, bred 

 from Pamber Forest larvaj. South Russian IIeterocera. — Mr. A. H. 

 Jones exhibited a number of moths from Sarepta, and read notes. 

 Lyc^nids showing some degree of Gynandromorphism. — Dr. E. A. 

 Cockayne exhibited : — [a) Thirty-eight gynandromorphous Aiiriadcs 

 coridiin from Royston. [b) Two ? s of A. caridun, from Royston, 

 showing streaks of blue. Neither showed any signs of androconia. 

 (f) One gynandromorphous Poli/oiiniiatiia icarns (Co. Clare, 1914), 

 predominantly female ab. caenda, but with streaks of male colour on 

 the right forewing and both hindwings. The following paper was 

 read : — ^" On Hawaiian Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Fam. Iclnu'ii- 

 vioiwlac)," by R. C. L. Perkins, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S. 



e^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Some South Indian Insects and other Animals of Importance 

 considered specially from an Economic point of view. By T. 

 Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., etc., Imperial Entomologist to the 

 Government of India. Published in Madras. Price 9s. — The author 

 of this handsome w^ork is an old correspondent of the Entoinohxjist'a 

 Record, and probably known to many readers as a valued contributor 

 to our knowledge of the " Plumes." The present book is one of those 

 large and comprehensive works on the Fauna which the Governments 

 of India have for a long time been bringing out. Mr. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher was for some years and until 1912 Government Entomologist 

 in Madras. Had it not been for his appointment in that year to the 

 post of Imperial Entomologist to the Government of India the publica- 

 tion of the present work on South Indian Insects would have been 

 deferred for some years, pending a more thorough investigation into 

 the life-histories of those insects of greater economic importance. 

 Much of the necessary material having been accumulated, however, it 

 was considered better to issue it now, as a basis for further work, rather 

 than defer it for a possibly indefinite period, * 



