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pupae and contributed notes. Mr. West (Ashtead), a series of Dianthoicia 

 cai:)sincola, bred from Silene in his own garden, and a captured headless moth 

 of Xylophasia hepatica. Mr Blenkarn, a selection of Abraxas grossulariata, 

 bred from about 25(X) Gateshead larvse. Two nice asymmetrical forms were 

 perhaps the most striking of a scarcely more than ordinary series. Mr. Jiiger, 

 a series of twelve Callimorpha hera, bred on June 22nd of this year, quite a 

 month earlier than he had ever bred the species before. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a 

 fine aberration of Mifuas tilise, with the usual transverse fascia of the fore- 

 wings reduced to a very small elongated central spot. Mr. Step read the 

 Report of the Delegates to the Annual Congress of the South Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies held at St. Albans in June. — Ht. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



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A Monograph of the Anopheline Mosquitoes of India. By Drs. 

 James and Liston. Second Edition, re-written and enlai'ged. Price, ^£1 5s., 

 from Messrs. Thacker & Co., 2, Creed Lane, London, E.G. 



The arrangement of the chai^ters and the number of coloured plates are 

 the same as in the first Edition published in 1904, but whereas in that Edition 

 the authors were veiy much oj^posed to the use of differences in scale structiire 

 for the purposes of classification, in the present Edition they have adopted it. 

 It is to be noted, however, that the conclusions they arrive at often differ from 

 those of Theobald, and they state that their classification applies to the females 

 only, and the scale ornamentation of male anophelines is sometimes different from, 

 that of female anophelines (v, p. 68). 



They recognise 12 genera (4 being described as new), and about 30 species 

 (2 new) with 5 varieties (2 new), and give elaborate directions as to the way to 

 proceed in naming a species. The authors evidently consider that the mention 

 of the generic name, I'seudomyzomyia, by Theobald in tlie Errata and Addenda 

 at the beginning of Vol. iv of his Monogr. Culic. (1907), does not constitute 

 publication, for they have re-named the genus Nyssomyzomyia. In this they 

 may be right, but their Nyssorhynchus maculipalpis, as it is not Giles' species 

 of that name, must be known as indiensis, Theobald ; it cannot be called maculi- 

 palpis, James and Liston. The whole work is profusely illustrated, and is a 

 genuine and probably successful attempt to enable fellow-workei-s to name the 

 Anopheline Mosquitoes of India. 



A Handbook of the Tsetse-Flies. By Ernest E. Austen. Printed by 

 Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Pp. xx, 110, ten Plates and 

 one Map. 



This Handbook is a usefvil addition to the works on this subject, as it 

 brings together the results of all the work on the genus since the author 

 piiblished his "Monograph" in 1903. It is only necessary to mention that 

 fifteen species ai-e dealt with, in the place of seven in the Monograph, to shoAV 



