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injury to find the woodman witli some workmen busy putting up a large notice 

 board bearing the inscription, " Visitors are requested not to injure the trees and 

 shrubs in this drive! !" Although the day was perfect, I saw few Diptera worth 

 netting until just before leaving, when I took two M. eristaloides and a few Alophora 

 hemiptera, F. The next day I tried Brick Kiln again, and was rewarded with one 

 C. cenea, but no Mallota came in my way until reaching home, when I took one in 

 the garden on the flowers of Heraoleum giganteum. This hardy weed-like plant had 

 a thick stem about 8 feet high, which supported a large umbel of flowers over two 

 feet in diameter, and the strong but not unpleassnt scent was attractive not only to 

 Diptera but insect life generally. Five Mallota and one Callicera had now fallen 

 to my net in three days, and at this rate I was looking forward to being able to 

 supply my Dipterist friends with specimens, but unfortunately I was taken ill and 

 did not get about again for nine days, during which time both species seemed to have 

 entirely disappeared. — Feed. C. Adams, 50, Ashley Gardens, S.W. : Nov., 1899. 



Eeport of the Government Entomologist (Chas. P. Lounsbury, Cape 

 of Good Hope) fob tue Year 1898. 8vo, pp. 6i, with 9 plates. Cape Town, 

 1899. 



This is an excellent Report, full of details interesting even to those who are not 

 specially economic entomologists ; to those who are it is indispensable. The range 

 of subjects is very wide ; a large proportion of the pests are undoubtedly introduced. 

 Quite a " trade " is being established in " Vedalia," the coccus-destroying Australian 

 Lady Bird, no less than 41 packages having been distributed (at a nominal charge) 

 during the year, some even to Portugal. There is a capital Index, and the platea 

 are characteristic, even if slightly rough. 



General Index to Miss Ormeeod's Reports on iNjuBiotrs Insects, 

 1877 to 1898 : by Robert Newstead, F.E.S., with preface by Miss Obmerod. 

 Svo, pp. 58. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Ltd. 1899. 



A carefully compiled classified list of the subjects referred to in the Annual 

 Reports published during the 22 years that Miss Ormerod has been so disinterestedly 

 engaged on the Injurious Insects of tliis country, and wliich must necessarily be in 

 the hands of all who possess these Reports. Miss Ormerod announces that a second 

 series is about to be commenced, and that in it she will have the assistance of Mr.. 

 Newstead : she could not have done better. 



John Brooks Bridyman, F.L.S., will be a name known to posterity as that of 

 one of the few who studied the parasitic Hy^menoptera in Britain during the nine- 

 teenth century. Bridgmau practised as a dentist at Lynn, and, for a great many 

 years, in St. Giles' Street, Norwich, an address well known to most of us, who have 

 either sent liim bred parasites to name for u», or to ask him for particulars of tlieir 

 interesting economy, and in no case was his knowledge withheld from any who 



