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which instantly gave oS the powerful, defensive odour of ripe pears noticed by 

 Douglas and Scott, demolishing Trapezonotus agrestis ; Orthostira parvula was 

 common. Oomphocerus maculatus {in cop.), commonly. Harpalus anxius and 

 H. picipennis, of which the former has never been taken inland elsewhere in Britain, 

 and the latter but once ; Orthocerus muticus was common, but it is generally rare 

 in the country ; Stephens records it from Lowestoft, on Hewitson's authority, and 

 Mr. Walker took four at Felixstowe in June, 1879. Byrrhus murinus, which was 

 not uncommon, has not been found with us since Sheppard (at whose records we are 

 too prone to scoff) took it upon Martleshara Heath. Such common things as 

 Amara trivialis, Oxytelns inustus, and Apion frumentarium also occurred, as did a 

 single small variety of Agrotis valligera beneath a stone. — Claude Moeley, 

 Ipswich : JSovember, 1900. 



The generic position of Drosophila maculata, Ouf. — When Mr. Collin examined 

 this insect, he said to me that it was so different from the other Drosophilee, that 

 he thought it should be a new genus. He has now kindly informed me that the 

 late Prof. J. Mik has established (Wiener Ent. Zeit., v, p. 317) the genus Leuco- 

 phenga for it. The insect, therefore, adds a genus to our lists as well as a species, 

 viz., Leucophenga, Mik, with the one species, L. maculata, Duf. — D. Shaep, 

 Cambridge ; November \st, 1900. 



The G-eological Antiquity of Insects : twelve papei-s on Fossil Entomo- 

 logy : by Heebeet Goss, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. 2nd Edition. 8vo, pp. iv and 52. 

 London : Gurney and Jackson. 1900. 



The first edition of this useful pamphlet was a reprint, " with some alterations 

 and additions," of a sei-ies of papers published in Vols, xv and xvi of the first series 

 of this Magazine. This first edition has been long exhausted, and the author has 

 been urged to produce a second, up-to-date, edition. In the Preface he gives his 

 reasons for not being able to satisfy such a demand so far as concerns the whole of 

 the enormous amount of material (especially Tertiary) made known latterly, but he 

 has modified the chapters in the first edition dealing with the Silurian, Devonian, 

 and Carboniferous rocks. The rest remains practically the same. 



Josef Mik, of the Vienna Museum, the well known Austrian Dipterist, died on 

 October 13th, in his 62nd year, after a short illness. We make this announcement 

 with much regret, and may probably have occasion to enlarge upon it later on. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History Society : 

 September 27th, 1900.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashby exhibited a fine var. of Rhagium bifasciatum, taken at Rickmans- 

 worth, having a large yellow patch across the elytra in place of the usual spots ; a 

 series of Sinodendron cylindricum from a beech stump at the same place ; a very 



