262 THE entomologist's recobd. 



We have been assured that the Doubleday Collection of British 

 Lepidoptera will not be absorbed into the general collection at South 

 Kensington, but will be kept intact and separate. 



The Thirteentli Annual Report of the Photographic Survey and 

 Record of Surrey is to hand. The work is carried on by means of six 

 sections, i.e., Architecture, Art and Literature, Antiquities and Anthro- 

 pology, Geology, Natural History, and Topography. Among the 810 

 prints which have been added to the collection during the past year 

 there are none dealing with Entomology. Possibly some of our readers 

 have negatives of subjects native to the county, and we are sure prints 

 from these would be most serviceable ; while their presence in the col- 

 lection would help to keep our specialised work before the public. The 

 Collection is housed in the Public Reference Library, Town Hall, 

 Katherine Street, Croydon. It is stored in specially designed drawers, 

 and is open for consultation by any member of the general public from 

 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every weekday. Mr. E. A. Martin, F.G.S., 285, 

 Holmsdale Road, South Norwood, whom some of us know for his 

 enthusiastic work on behalf of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies, is the Hon. Secretary of the Natural History Section. 



In the Entoiiiolrxiist for September Mr. H. Rowland-Brown con- 

 tributed " Some Remarks on 'J'lieda aescidi, Hb., chieily in the South 

 of France," in which he contends that "the two forms ilicift and aesrnli 

 are specifically distinct, as asserted by most of the older authors of 

 note. To this are added the notes of Dr. Chapman on his examina- 

 tion of the genitalia of the two forms, which go to show that they are 

 very closely related, but that the more minute details arrange them- 

 selves into two definite series, and may be interpreted as indicating 

 two separate species. There are two plates of details. 



In the same number Mr. G. T. Lile announces a genus and species 

 of Bvaconidae as new to Britain. Mr. D. Sharp discovered the beetle 

 Hijpop/iloeus lUuarifi in the burrows of Tom tens bi(le)a< in fallen branches 

 of ['inns sylvestris. From the branches he bred the Braconid Coeno- 

 inicln/s hartigii. 



In the same number Mr. A. A. Girault announces two species of 

 Chalcidoid Hymenoptera as new to Britain and to science, viz., (Jocco- 

 l)ha;ius hiittanicus and Apterotri.r lunificlava, both received from Man- 

 chester. They were reared from the Homopfceron Lepidusaphes uhni. 

 At the same time a new form of the Hymenopteron Aphidenri/rtnx 

 aspidioti was reared, which is introduced as var. brittanicns. 



Our colleague, Mr. R. S. Bagnall writes an appeal in the September 

 number of the Knt. Mo. Mar/., for material from all parts of the British 

 Isles, to aid him in his study of the British Cnrnpodeidae (Thysanura). 

 His address is Penshaw Lodge, Penshaw, Co. Durham. 



In the Knt. Neics for October are two articles discussing the state- 

 ments made concerning Lycaena piasns and L. rhaea in the article, 

 "Notes on the Synonymy of Boisduval's N. American species of 

 Ij/caenidae," by Dr. McDunnough, Kitt. Record, vol. xxvi., page 201 

 (1914). The first by J. R. Haskin, of Los Angeles, does not agree 

 with Dr. McDunnough's conclusions, while the second by Prof. H. 

 Skinner says that the weight of evidence supports them. 



We have seen the announcement of the decease of Dr. Wm. 

 Saunders, who was the co-founder of the Canadian, Kntoniohxjist, 

 with the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune and for many years one of its editors. 



