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view, but they are frequently most amusing and even witty in their 

 comment. The war even has had an effect upon the fertile brains of 

 these would-be instructors, for from a catalogue recently to hand we 

 cull the following caustic items. " Becker (Leon) Les Araclmides de 

 Belf/iqiie." .... " Since the publication of the above work 

 Belgium has been overrun by the enormous migration of a gigantic 

 blood-sucking spider, Knlturia vastatrix, Treits., with falces of a 

 noxiousness hitherto unknown to naturalists. Although in their new 

 habitat these Araclmida have approximated to the trap-door spiders, 

 their expulsion and extermination is only a matter of time." " Bene- 

 den (Pierre Joseph), LouvAiN, ^H?/;/flZ Parrrs/Yf'.s rtHci M«.s.s»/a(«?s." . . . . 

 "Like Belgium in general, Louvain in particular is suffering from the 

 unexpected arrival of vermin of a very low type, which are unlikely to 

 survive the freshening winds of spring." " Lambillion (L. J. L.) 

 Histoire Natiirelle de Moeiirs de tons les FapilloJis de Beliivjue." .... 

 " The complete devastation by the savages of so much of the low-lying 

 area of Belgium may very possibly lead to some of the species here 

 described becoming extinct." " Haeckel (Ernst), Report of the Sipho- 

 niphorae, etc." . . . . " This is the man who, with Dr. Eucken, 

 put forth, with his tongue in his cheek, the lying statement, that the 

 French invaded Belgium before his own countrymen did." And so 

 forth. 



Among the more interesting matter in the January magazines are 

 the following. The Canadian Entomologist : — (1) F. H. WoUey Dod 

 continues his valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Lepi- 

 doptera of Alberta ; he deals in this chapter with further Noctuid 

 species. (2) L. W. Swett continues his Revision of the genus Hydrio- 

 mena : the group with long palpi is under consideration at present. 

 (3) The first of what purports to be a very useful series of articles on 

 the educational side, entitled " Popular and Economic Entomology," 

 is published. This instalment deals with " Some Inhabitants of a 

 Land Plain in June," using as a text the locality Aweme, Manitoba, 

 and the date June 20th. The Scottish Naturalist: — (1) Frank Balfour 

 Browne contributes the first portion of an account of the Aquatic 

 Coleoptera of the Outer Hebrides, dealing with the general character- 

 istics and limits of the area and methods of collection, record and 

 study involved. The Entoinolof/ist's Monthly Mayazine : — •(!) F. N. 

 Pierce and the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe describe three new species of Tor- 

 tricidae, discovered in working through the genitalia of the British 

 representatives of the group. The species are Cnephasia yenitalana, 

 hitherto stated to have been mixed in collections and confused with C. 

 conspersana. Of the latter species the authors also announce and 

 describe an aberration, viz., ab. albo-eonspersana, and of Cnephasia octo- 

 macidana they also describe a new aberration, ab. albo-octoiimcnlana, 

 both aberrations are forms which might possibly be confounded with 

 the new species. (2) Voecilochroina potnedaxana, described from series 

 bred by Mr. E. Studd, at Oxton, Devon, and hitherto considered as a 

 form of h\ profundana upon the authority of Mr. E. R. Bankes. It 

 has been bred for a number of years from old apple trees. (3) Lipo- 

 ptycha aeratana has been confused hitherto with series of Dicroranipha 

 [Lipoptycha) pliiinbana and 1). saturnana, or even among series of D. 

 tanaceti. The Kntoxioloyist: — (1) J. W. Harrison contributes an article 

 " On the Hybrids of the genus Oporabia with some notes on its ' Micro- 



