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Collemhola from Laguna Beach, and an account of the Laguna Marine 

 Laboratory, are the chief features of the present number. 



In the January number of The Scottish A'atiiralifit, Mr. J. R. Malloch 

 has commenced a "List of Clyde Tenthredinidae, Sawflies." In the 

 February number Mr. W. J. Lucas gives some notes on the Odoncdo, 

 etc., taken by Col. Yerbury in the Spey area during the spring of 

 1913 ; the most interesting species was probably Ai/rion hastiilataiii, 

 of which eleven specimens were captured, d3 s and 2 2 s. 



In the Irish NatKralist for January Mr. Chas. Langham records the 

 capture of a specimen of Schocnobiits tnncyonellus on the shore of Upper 

 Lough Erne, about ten o'clock at night on July 17th, flying over 

 J'Jijiiisetniii. On subsequent evenings with the use of a boat he 

 obtained twelve more examples. When Mr. Kane published his Ccita- 

 Inijtie of Irish Lepidoptera, only one B])QG\m.exi had been taken in Ireland. 



We hear that it is proposed to place a memorial to Alfred Russel 

 Wallace in Westminster Abbey, a portrait in the Royal Society's 

 rooms, and a statue or bust in the Natural History Museum (British) 

 South Kensington. 



We regret to read the announcement of the death of Dr. Geo. Wm. 

 Peckham, so well-known for his works on spiders and on wasps, at 

 Milwaukee, U.S.A., on Jan. 11th, 1914. 



In the Eat. Mo. Ma;/, for January Dr. G. B. Longstaff gives a 

 series of "Further Notes on Scents in Butterflies," a subject he dealt 

 with at some length in his interesting work "Butterfly-hunting in 

 many Lands," and which he has repeatedly referred to at the meetings 

 of the Entomological Society of London. 



Messrs. H. F. Fryer and J. C. F. Fryer, in the Ent. Mo. Ma;/., 

 announce the discovery of a genus and species of Homoptera new to 

 the British fauna in G-riipotes pimtellns, taken in August and October 

 last near Mildenhall, among patches of rough grass growing beneath 

 or near Scotch Pine {Pinns si/lrestris). At the same time they record 

 the capture of macropterous forms for the first time in Britain of 

 Araeopiis pidcliellns and Euidella speciosa by sweeping rough grass and 

 reeds at Chippenham Fen. 



Dr. Chapman contributes a long and detailed series of observations 

 on the " Larvie of llirsutina [A;/riades) daiiion and Plebius ar;/ijro;/- 

 noinon to the Eiit. Mo. Ma;/, illustrated by seven plates, one in colour. 



In the February number of the Ent. Mo. Ma;/. Mr. R. S. Bagnall 

 continues his descriptions of new British species of Tliysanoptera 

 {Tuhi(lifera). floplandnitJtrips ellisi was taken by beating dead 

 branches at Balsall Common, Warwickshire. H . collinsi was taken at 

 the same place as the last species. Cry/itothrips major has been fouud 

 by Mr. C. B. Williams in Surrey. 



The nineteenth Annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies will take place at Bournemouth from Wednesday, 

 June 10th, 1914, to Saturday, June 13th, under the presidency of Dr. 

 P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. A handbook of the 

 natural history, etc., of the district is, we hear, in course of preparation, 

 following the excellent example which Avas begun at Woolwich some 

 years ago, and has been followed at St. Albans and elsewhere, when 

 visited by the Congress. 



The Spring meeting of the South-Eastern Union will take place at 

 Stratford-on-Avon in conjunction with the Selborne Society on 



