152 THE ENTOMOLoaiST's RECORD. 



palliata-cuneata. Forcing of E. atomabia. — Mr. W. Mansbridge, a 

 long series of Ematiinja {Fidonia) atomaria, from the Burnley district, 

 bred by forcing in a warm room in January, including many dark 

 forms ; also a series of Odontopera bidentata var. nigra which emerged 

 in January, in a cold room. C. reticulata. — Dr. P. F. Tinne, a 

 series of Cidaria retictilata, from Windermere. Local forms of 

 British Butterflies. — Mr. E. Wilding Satijnts seniele, English and 

 Irish forms, Pieris napi from Ireland, Kent, and the coast sand-hills, 

 also Melitaea anrinia {artemis) from Ireland. Drawings of Geometrid 

 ARMATURES, — Mr. F. N. Picrce had on view the drawings for his 

 forthcoming work " The Genitalia of the British Geometers," as well 

 as preparations under the microscope. 



J^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Common British Beetles. — By Rev. Chas. A. Hall, F.R.M.S. 

 Published by Adam and Chas. Black, Soho Square, London, W. 

 Price Is. 6d. 88 pp. — 8 plates in colour + 15 in blaek and white 

 photographs. 



This professedly elementary treatise is well conceived, and should 

 be in the hands of every intelligent lad in our secondary and public 

 schools who is interested in Nature Study, and whose special bent is 

 the study of beetles. 



The author (circumscribed as he is by space and price) has done 

 his work well. The information is sound, forming a sure foundation, 

 and is of such a character as to lead the student to a more advanced 

 field. Moreover, the book is not intended to encourage collecting as 

 the " be all and end all." Whilst a chapter on " Collection and 

 Preservation" is rightly included, the reader is told that "Collecting is 

 necessary, but should always be regarded as subsidiary to observation." 



. . . " The species of coleopterist most desirable to-day, and in 

 all time, is the observer of beetles in their natural haunts, and one who 

 has ingenuity and patience enough to devise ways and means of 

 keeping them in confinement through all their stages, so that accurate 

 records of life-histories may be obtained." 



Chapters are written on " The structure of Beetles," " Some 

 remarkable beetles," " Some British Beetles described," and the Sub- 

 Orders : — Adephaga, Clavicornia, Lamellicornia, Serricornia, Phyto- 

 phaga, Heteromera, Rhyncophora, are briefly dealt with. 



The publishers also deserve a generous meed of praise for the 

 excellence of the volume, and for their liberality in the matter of plates 

 which are calculated to be of great assistance. — H.E.P. 



Lepidoptera of the Panama Zone. — 1. New Genera and Species of 

 Microlepidoptera from Panama, by August Busck, 67 pp. (2) Report 

 on the Lepidoptera af the Smitlisonian Biological Survey of the Panama 

 Canal Zone, by Harrison G. Dyar, 212 pp. Wherever the influence of 

 the United States extends there the Smithsonian Institute sends its 

 trained emissaries to investigate everything of human interest. Most 

 of the species were collected by Prof. Busck who went out especially 

 to collect " Micros " and took " Macros " only as a side issue. Hence 

 the larger lepidoptera are poorly represented and much of the material 

 is new. Practically all the new species are introduced with notes 

 showing differentiation from existing species. — H.J.T. 



