doj)tera " thai lias appeared as yet, as well as eertainly one of the eheapest. 

 Mr. South in his preface deprecates the idea of comprising " within the scope of 

 volumes especially designed for the votaries of Nature Study . . . the large 

 contingent of our Moths known as the Micro- Lepidopf era," but we trust that, at 

 some time in (he not distant future, he and his enterprising publishers will see their 

 way to giving us another volume on the same lines as the present one, to include at 

 least our Pi/rales, Crambifesi, " Plumes," and Tortrices. The difficulties attending 

 the illustration of those " small fry," if one may judge from the large measure of 

 success attending that of the genus Eupitheeia and other small forms included in 

 the work now under review, should surely not be insuperable. 



Transactions of the Natttral History Society of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. New Series. Vol. Til. Part 1. London : 

 Williams and Norgate ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mawson, Swan, and Morgan, Ltd. 

 1908. 



Transactions of the Vale of Derwent Naturalists' Field Club. 

 New Series. Vol. T. Part T. Rowlands Gill. Published by the Society. 1908. 



The current part of the Transactions of the well-known and flourishing 

 Natural History Society long established at Newcastle-upon-Tyne contains two 

 papers of considerable interest to Entomologists. The first of these, the annotated 

 "Catalogue of Butterflies collected in Burmah up to the end of 1895," by 

 Lieut. -Col. C. H. E. Adamson CLE., the first part of which appeared in the 

 Society's Transactions for 1905, is now concluded, and embodies the large number 

 of 506 species in all. The second paper, by our correspondent Mr. H. S. Bagnall, 

 F.E.S., " On some New Genera and Species of Thi/sanopfera," contains descriptions 

 of a considerable number of exotic forms of these insects. It is illustrated by two 

 well-executed lithographic plates from the author's drawings, and forms a valuable 

 contribution to the literature of this hitherto much neglected Order. 



Mr. Bagnall also contributes to the " Transactions of the Vale of Derwent 

 Naturalists' Field Club" two well-written papers on Entomological subjects, 

 "Strangers Zoological," dealing chiefly with the rare and interesting Coleoptera of 

 Gibside, many of which have been recorded in this Magazine ; land the " Bristle- 

 tails CThi/sanuraJ of the Derwent Valley," embodying some valuable observations 

 on these obscure forms, of which nearly all our known species have come under his 

 notice in the district. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : Meeting, held at the 



Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, December 2,1x1, 1908.— Mr. VVm. 



Mansbridge, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



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