74 THE ei*tomologist's record. 



band is very wide from the costa to the inner-margin ; the median 

 fawn-coloured area is much reduced and is suffused with black and 

 violet blue, producing the reflection as in the ^ . M. L. J. Lambillion 

 is responsible for these new forms. — H. J. T. 



(grURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Part III. of the Trans. Ent, Soc. lAJud., for 1913 appeared just 

 before the Annual Meeting of the Society in January, and contains 

 " The Urticating Properties of I'oithc.va fiiniilis," by .H. Eltringham, 

 D.Sc. ; "Illustrations of specific differences in the Saws of $ 

 Dolerids," by the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A. ; " On the Relationship 

 between certain West African Insects, especially Ants, Li/caeniilae and 

 Homoptera," by W. A. Lamborn, P.E.S., with Appendices by Messrs. 

 Bethune-Baker, W. L. Distant, H. Eltringham, Prof. Poulton, J. H. 

 Durrant and Prof. Newstead ; " Description of new species of StapJnj- 

 linidae from India," by Malcolm Cameron, F.E.S. ; and " Additions 

 and corrections to my Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera of 

 Trinidad (190±)," by W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. , together with more than 60 

 pages of interesting matter connected with the proceedings at the 

 meetings of the Society. 



In the Bull. Soc. Ent. Er., no. i., 1914, M. F. le Cerf describes 

 two new species of Aeijeriidae (1) JMelittia azra'el with upperwings 

 entirely black with deep bluish green reflection and lowerwings also 

 black with a steel blue reflection. The insect extremely resembles a 

 Hymenopteron and is from the French Congo. (2) Chaiiiaespheda 

 dermonti, from Hirsova (Dobroudja), Roumania, has considerable 

 resemblance to some of our larger European species of " Clearwing." 

 Both these species are named from " single " specimens. In no. 2 of 

 the linll. are some useful notes on the lepidopterous fauna of the 

 neighbourhood of Rheims with especial reference to the occurrence of 

 Euchlu'e belia var. ansonia, together with a large number of notes on 

 Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, etc. 



In the Ann. Soc. Ent. Jleh/., part xiii., 1913, is printed the address 

 read to the Society by their President, M. Ch. Kerreman, at the annual 

 meeting in December last. The author bewails the fact that out of a 

 population of over seven and a half millions, only seventy-two interest 

 themselves in Entomology sufficiently to join the Society, and notes that 

 although the study of entomology has important bearings on biology, 

 embryology, zoogeography, political economy and agriculture, scarcely 

 sufficient new workers come forward to iiU the vacancies in their 

 ranks caused by death. He discusses ways and means to attract 

 young workers, and endeavours to show that entomology is quite as 

 attractive and beneficial to its votaries as collecting postage-stamps or 

 joining in the " savage struggles " of football. In part i., 1914, of 

 the Anvalcs is the third and last instalment of the " Contribution to 

 the Study of the Flight of Insects," by M. R.-E. Bervoets. The paper 

 deals particularly with the pterostigma and its function in flight, and 

 concludes with a useful bibliography. 



The quarterly Jour, of Ent. ami Zo<d., for December (Claremont, 

 California) contains numerous studies of more or less obscure and new 

 species in the " other" orders, and the articles are well illustrated. A 

 new Eriucciis, Laguna Beach hopcda, nervous system of Chelifer, and 



