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species. But to one species in Vol. II (Histiogaster entomophagus) some special 

 interest is attached. This is commonly known as the "insect mite." And yet when 

 Mr. Michael attempted to procure such individuals it was only great difficulty he 

 was able to do so. Personal application, a statement of wishes in Journals, &c., 

 proved in vain, and it was only at length that he obtained a small supply. 



Insects AFFECTiNa Fokest Trees : by E. P. Felt, D.Sc, State Entomolo- 

 gist. Keprinted from the 7th Keport Forest Fish and Game Commission. 4to, 

 pp. 479-534', with 16 plates and numerous text illustrations. Albany : J. B. 

 Lyon Co. 1903. 



The extent and importance of this memoir is indicated by the title and its 

 author. Mainly devoted to Coleoptera as is almost natural, it also includes some 

 thoroughly worked-out life- histories of Lepidoptera, and of the " smaller" Orders. 

 We think the figures of perfect insects of Tomicidm could scarcely be surpassed. 

 The least effective are probably the studies in black bark. Paper and get up are 

 excellent. 



^ocii[t^s. 



BiEMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY: November IQlh, 1903. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Bakee, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. G. W. Wynn read a short paper giving an account of all the rarer and 

 more interesting Lepidoptera he had found in Wyre Forest, and illustrated the 

 paper by a box full of selected specimens. The more noteworthy were our old 

 friend Endromis versicolora L., Hylophila hicolorana. Fuessl. (very rare) ; the 

 Cymatophoridse, all the Briti.sh species of which have occurred there, octogesima, 

 Hb., being the rarest ; Stauropus fagi, L., one specimen only of which has been 

 taken so far. Drymonia chaonia, Hb., of which he showed a specimen reared from 

 an egg laid by a captured female (very rare), and Plusia bractea, F. (one only). 

 Mr. W. H. Flint showed an example of Argynnis lathonia, L., taken in Wyre 

 Forest (in the Worcestershire part) in 1899, where he believed he also saw one or 

 two others ; also Kent specimens for comparison Mr. A. U. Martineau, Aculeates. 

 the result of five or six days' collecting at various times during 1901-2 at Budleigh 

 Salterton. He also gave an account of the district and collecting places, describing 

 the coast line and geological formation, and the occurrence of each species in turn. 

 Amongst the species taken were : Pompilus rufipes, L. ; P. cinciellus, Spin. ; 

 Oorytes tumidus, Panz. ; G. bicinctus, Kossi ; Andrena pilipes, F. ; A. fascipes, 

 Kirb. ; iStelis phmoptera, Kirb., etc. etc. He also showed a specimen of the 

 Tachinid Miltogramma punctata, Mg., bred from a pupa found inside a cocoon of 

 Trypoxylon figulus, L. Mr. Gilbert Smith, a few nests of various species of 

 Eymenoptera from different parts of the world. Mr. G. H. Kenrick, a number of 

 Lepidoptera, all bred this year from various localities. Amongst others were 

 Endromis versicolora, L., from Wyre Forest ; Thecla prunl, L., T. w-album, 

 Knoch, and Xanthia gilvago, Esp., from Northamptonshire ; Demas coryli, L., 

 and others from Sutherlandshire. He mentioned that in Sutherlandshire he had 

 found larva) of Qonodontis bidentata, CL, commonly on birch in three well marked 

 forms, one grey, one purple, and one black and white ; each agreeing perfectly with 



