138 [Jone. 



I see also that Mr. Mortimer speaks of H. coriaceiim as the " most recently 

 discovered" of our British Chrysids. Two, however, at least of these are later 

 additions to our list, viz., Ellampus truncatus, Dhlb. (Ent. Mo. Mag., May, 1900), 

 and H. rutilans, Dhlb. (Ent. Mo. Mag., October, 1901). I recorded H. coriaceum 

 in Ent. Mo. Mag., August, 1897.— F. D. Morice, Woking: April, 1913. 



Ortheziola vejdovskyi (fam. Coccidse) in Scotiayid. — In an earlier number of 

 this Magazine (August, 1911, p. 179) I recorded the first occurrence of Ortheziola 

 vejdovskyi, Sulc, in this country, where it was taken at Porlock by Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe. It now appears that examples of this interesting species had been taken 

 at a very much earlier date, though their identity was not recognised. I liave 

 just received from Mr. W. Evans the specimens in question, with a note to the 

 effect that they were found in crevices of a log of wood in Haddingtonshire, 

 Scotland, in November, 1905. Though this is only the second record of its 

 occurrence in the British Isles, it is probable that the species is widely 

 distribiited here. Like its nearest relative, Newsteadia floccosa, Ortheziola 

 vejdovskyi is of a retiring disposition and shuns the light of day, concealing itself 

 in moss, in crevices of bark, or even below ground. — E. Ernest Green, Mote 

 Hall, Bearsted : May 3rd, 1913. 



" The Coleoptera of the British Islands : a descriptive account of the 

 families, genera, and sj^ecies indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland ; with 

 notes as to localities, habitats, etc." By W. W. Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., 

 and Horace St. John Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. Vol. VI (Supplement). London: 

 Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd., 6, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 1913. 



It is difficult to express adequately the debt which the now fairly numerous 

 students and collectors of our native beetles owe to the enterprise and industry 

 of the Rev. W. W. Fowler, whose " Coleoptera of the British Islands" appeared 

 in five voliunes between the years 1887 and 1891. This exhaustive work may 

 well be said to mark a new era in the study of our Coleoptera, and such of us 

 as are old enough to remember the toil of identifying our captvires by the aid 

 of such obsolete and inadequate works as Stephens's " Manual " (useful enough 

 in its day) and the scattered literature on the order in English, are those who 

 most fully realize the stimulus it has given to this branch of Entomology. 

 Very largely as a result of this incentive to work, few months have passed 

 without the announcement of the discovery of one or more species of Coleoptera 

 new to our Islands in the pages of this Magazine and its contemporaries ; and 

 the critical work on the more obscure and difficult genera effected by such 

 eminent Coleopterists as Dr. Sharp, Mr. N. H. Joy, and Mr. James Edwards (to 

 name one or two only) has added to our list a large number of species new to 

 science. All these records and descriptions have now been collated, amplified, 

 and brought together in the first part of this " Supplementary volume"; a good 

 many necessary corrections to the earlier volumes have been made, and the very 

 considerable list of " Addenda " which has accumulated during the time 



