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In the June number of the Entomolouist Mr. Gerard H. Gurney 

 concludes an account of an entomological trip to Corsica, Mr. H. Row- 

 land Brown lists the Black-and-white Skippers of the genus Hesperia 

 in his collection with localities, and Mr. Frohawk records the hiber- 

 nation of the larvae and breeding of the imagines of Everes argiailes. 



Mr. A. A. Dalglish has contributed to the Scottish Naturalist some 

 notes on Clyde Tenthredinidae (Sawflies), supplementary to Mr. 

 Malloch's List published in January and March. 



An interesting fact is quoted below from the Scottish Naturalist of 

 June. Mr. 0. H. Alston writes : " On examining some trout caught 

 in Loch Awe, on April 21st and 22nd last, it was found that their 

 mouths and throats were crammed with small, dark-coloured 



beetles It seemed as if on the first day they were taking 



them largely on the surface, and, on the next day, below 



They were found to be the heather beetle, Lochmaea suturalis. Mr. 

 Percy H. Grimshaw's surmise is that they were washed into the 

 hill-streams, and so down into the loch by the recent heavy rains, 

 alive, or dead. They would thus be found by the trout at first 

 floating, and afterwards when waterlogged, submerged. As they were 

 present in such large numbers, it does not appear likely that they 

 got there by flight." 



The New York Agricultural Experimental Station, Geneva N.Y., 

 contmue to send us their Bulletin, issued at very frequent intervals, 

 containing full accounts of the large amount of experimental and 

 educational work they are doing in economic natural science. On 

 our table lie some twenty of these pamphlets, all recently issued, and 

 fully illustrated with excellent plates and figures. " Analysis of 

 Materials sold as Insecticides," "The Cabbage Maggot {Pegomijia 

 brassicae) in relation to the growing of Early Cabbage," " The Cran- 

 berry Toad-bug {Phylloscelis atra)," "The False Tarnished Plant-bug 

 {Lyf/us iiivitus) as a Pear Pest," are entomological matter, the 

 remainder deal with soil, tillage, fungus pests, controls by spraymg, 

 bacteria testing, milk analysis, seed testing, etc. 



In the Annales de la Suciete Entioitologujue de Belgique is a "Con- 

 tribution to the Fauna of the French Indo-China," by E. Dubois and 

 R. Vitalis de Salvaza, consisting of a systematic catalogue of the family 

 of Papilionidae, giving the various groups there found with the species 

 and local forms with the locality areas to each. We note that M. 

 Dubois names a new form of Papilio cli/tia from Annam as f. vitalisi, 

 from one example only, and that M. Vitalis names a new form of 

 Papilio hipponous, from Annam, as var. duboisi, from one example only. 



In the Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. for May is a useful list of the Micro- 

 lepidoptera of the Isle of Oleron, Charente Inferieure, by M. C. Dumont. 

 The list contains 153 species, of which M. Dumont himself captured 

 121 species at acetylene light from August 1st to 17th, 1907. The 

 rest were recorded by M. Mabille in 1906. Included are seven species 

 of Coleophora and seven of Pterophoridae. In a further article M. 

 Dumont contributes a list of the Microlepidoptera of the Valleedu Lot, 

 near Cahors, obtained in the same way at acetylene light. He points 

 out that at least seven species are generally considered at the present 

 time to be exclusively Mediterranean, viz., Ephestia tephrinella, Phijcita 

 coronatella, tierculia rubidalis, Si/lepta aurantiacalis, Orneodes cijmato- 

 dactyla, Gelechia thomeriella, and Stomopteryx detersella. 



