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The South- Eastern Naturalist has just been issued, and in its 

 account of the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies (^uite belies the somewhat pessimistic views we expressed as to 

 the probable success of a meeting at Brighton in a year of war. The 

 volume contains no entomological matter and very little which can be 

 said to justify its title of " Naturalist," yet the matter is most interest- 

 ing both locally and generally, and does great credit to the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Union, Dr. William Martin, to whose efforts, so ably 

 seconded by the Hon. Assist. Secretary, H. Norman Gray, the success 

 of the Congress is due. The Presidential Address and papers read 

 occupy nearly a hundred pages, and the reports of the various sections, 

 proceedings of the Congress, and general information, take more than 

 another hundred. There are seven plates. 



The Tra)isacti(»is of the Luiulou yatural Uistmi/ Soriet;/ for 1914. 

 has just been issued. It consists of some 86 pages, some of which 

 contain advertisements, and one plate. Much on the same lines, it is 

 a continuation of the record which was formerly issued by the late City 

 of London Entomological and Natural History Society. It contains 

 an itinerary of the exhibits at the meetings ; the Presidential Address 

 by Mr. L. B. Prout, in which he deals lightly with many entomologi- 

 cal questions of the year as well as the general progress of our study ; 

 some very valuable and practical " Notes on Breeding and Collecting 

 the Sesia " = Ao(i('riidae, by Mr. L. W. Newman; an extremely scientific 

 summary of what is known of " Gynandromorphism," by the present 

 President, Dr. E, A. Cockayne, together with articles on Ornithology 

 and Archaeology. One would like to have had Dr. Cockayne's article 

 completed by a full bibliography and possibly by a plate or two. Mr. 

 Mera, who was in the chair of the old City of London Society for some 

 years, has contributed a series of interesting personal reminiscences of 

 the parent society. We are glad to see from this record that ento- 

 mology has not been swamped, as we feared it might be, as a result of 

 the amalgamation. 



The KntotnoltKiical News for July contains three plates. The first 

 illustrates an article on " Recent Work on Catocalae " from Missouri. 

 The second gives detailed figures for the " Studies on Costa Rica 

 Oilonata : the Waterfall Dwellers; the Transformation, External 

 Features and attached Diatoms of Tluuiuiatoneuia Larvte"; and the 

 third illustrates some dozen " New Species of Lepidoptera-hetero- 

 cera," described by F. Haimbach of Philadelphia, mostly Py rales. 

 W. Wild describes and figures a new species of Culi'djihora, C. albian- 

 tennadla, the larvie of which were found feeding on dogwood at 

 Buffalo. 



In the Knt. Mo. Mati. for July Mr. D. Sharp describes a new Homa- 

 Inta, H. f'.rillinia belonging to the sub-genus Mcotica. It has been taken 

 in sphagnum in the New Forest by several collectors. ^Ir. Jas. l^dwards 

 describes several new species of llomoptfra from Britain : — Mnio/ih- 

 th((liiii(s siabriiioniix from Colesbonrne and numerous other places ; 

 liliorrras alhicans ah. fiixcu-cnenilrKft on white poplar at Norwich ; 

 Ih-ltocrphalns thcnii, common on Norfolk coast marshes at Wells and 

 Weybourne ; Liinotitti.r sattirata, in a marsh at Iloreton, Norfolk, 

 Leith Hill and Gomshall; Zi/i/ina inali, on apple trees at Colesbourne ; 

 and I'si/Ua subfei rwjinea, common on any coniferous tree between 

 October and April. Mr. A. E. J. Carter adds three species to the 



