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large group of Chnlcididre are reoorcled from Yorksliiro ; while the Hemiptera are 

 alfogether omitted. The chief value of these " County Lists " of insects lies in the 

 fact, that they form an " up-to-rlate " summary of our knowledge (or our want of it) 

 of the fauna of the districts dealt with, and that they indicate clearly the amount of 

 work remaining to be done to make such knowledge complete ; and in both these 

 respects the present list is one of the most important that has yet appeared. 



Catalogtte of British Orthoptera, Neuroptera. and Trichoptkra : by 

 the late C. W. Dale, F.E.S. Revised and corrected. W. H. Harwood and Son, 

 Colchester. 



Mr. Harwood has been well advised in issuing this Catalogue, for such an 

 one has been urgently wanted for many years. Althougli based on a series of 

 Lists prepared by the late Mr. C. W. Dale, there is, we fancy, in some Orders, 

 but little of the author's original lists left, for the arrangement and nomen- 

 clature of these insects have quite recently been so much altered, Mr. TTarwood 

 found it necessary to obtain the co-r>peration of specialists in the various Orders ; 

 aud so the Lists stand largely as the work of Messrs. Malcolm Burr, F.L.S. (the 

 Orthoptera) ; W. J. Lucas, F.E.S. (the Odonata) ; H. L. F. G-uermonprez (the 

 Coppoqnatha) ; and Kenneth J. Morton, F.E.S. (the remainder of the Neuroptera 

 and the Trichopfera). No more competent authorities could have been selected, 

 and in themselves they form a guarantee of the accuracy and completeness of the 

 compilations. So recent are some of the names which have supplanted those more 

 familiar to us, they sound quite strange to British ears, but there is no doubt they 

 are correct, and will have to be generally adopted. We are glad to find that, as we 

 have contended for many years it should, Hemerohhis quadrifasciatiis is at last to 

 rank as a distinct species. We notice one or two errors in the names given as the 

 authors of species ; and the genus Acrldium is printed Airridinm ; but there is 

 little else to which we cannot give the heartiest praise. — Gr. T. P. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : March I8th, 1907. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Bakee, Pi'esident, in the Chair. 



The Rev. C. Thornewill showed several interesting Lepidoptera : Agrotis ne- 

 glecta, Hb.,from Burnt Wood, N. Staffs., a specimen of the so-called yellow variety 

 discovered there by Mr. F. C. Woodforde ; Conniia paleacea, Esp. (fulvago, Hb.), 

 which emerged unlocked for in his breeding cage from amongst some N. Shropshire 

 larviB, and which he believed to be new to the County ; a fine var. of Helotropha 

 leucostigma, Hb. (fibrosa), which was taken at sugar in his own orchard at Whit- 

 church, Salop, and had been illustrated by Barrett ; Ephyra pendularia, 01., var. 

 suhro.teata, from Burnt Wood ; and Ortholitha cervinata, Schiff., a remarkable var. 

 bi'ed with others from N. Shropshire. Mr. Or. H. Kenriek, a series of Pyralidx 

 chiefly from New Guinea, and side by side with them a series of moths belonging to 



