234 rOotober, 



Ohituanj. — We rogret to announce that Mr. Franlc INIillnirn Hewlett 

 Imperial Pathological Eiitouiologist to the Goverimient of India, died at 

 Mussoorie, India, on August 20tli. It is hoped to give a fuller obituary notice 

 in a later number. 



"Catalogus Alphabeticus gknerum et hubgenerum Coleo- 

 PTEROBUM OBBis TERRARUM TOTius." Von Dr. Robert Lucas. Pars I. 

 Pp. xxxvi & 696. R. Strieker, Berlin [undated]. 



This Catalogue gives a list of all the Families, Tribes, Subtribes, Sections, 

 Genera, and Subgenera of Coleoptera, with full references and synonymj', 

 enumerated in the " Genera Insectorum " of Wytsman and the Catalogues 

 of Schenkling (Junk), published between 1900 and (presumably) 1914. It will 

 certainly be of great assistance to all working Coleopterists, the alphabetical 

 list of genera and subgenera including no fewer than 10,557 names. The 

 method adopted, however, is to be deplored, as many of the main Families or 

 Subfamilies of beetles, like the Carahidae, Dytiscidne, Teleplioridae^ Melyridae, 

 Curculionidae, Halticidne, Galerucidae,'etc., etc., have either not been catalogued, 

 or only in part, in tlie above-cited publications of Wytsman and Schenkling, 

 and they are therefore not included in tlie volume before us. When these 

 Ftimilies or Subfamilies are undertaken, another lengthy alphabetical list of 

 names will have to be issued in Pars II, thus duplicating the labour of the 

 studeut. To quote an instance of this, it may be remarked that four volumes 

 only (three are given in the list of Zeitschriften on p. vii) of the Coleoptera of 

 the "Biologia Centrali- Americana" are mentioned, while fourteen others remain 

 to be dealt with. The preparation of such a catalogue, even if only a first 

 instalment, must have entailed an enormous amoimt of labour. A certain 

 amount of space is saved by a system of abbreviations for the names of the 

 publications, localities, etc., quoted ; and author's names are printed in heavy 

 type, for facility of reference. The year of publication, in the absence of any 

 statement to the contrary, can only be taken from the almost si iiultaneously 

 issued prospectus, dated August 2nd, 1920. This is a matter of some 

 importance, certain new generic names having been given by Dr. Lucas in 

 foot-notes in substitution for others that were preoccupied. The quality of 

 the paper, printing, etc., leaves nothing to be desired, and we can commend the 

 tirst instalment of the Catalogue to all students of beetles. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 Juli/ -l-lnd, 1920.— Mr. K. G. Blair, B.Sc, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President exhibited Cimex pipistrelli, a Hemipteron infesting the 

 bat, Mr. Turner, a box of Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Grosvenor chiefly at 

 Bangalore, India. Mr. Priske recorded that in five of six traps set in Richmond 

 Park for Coleoptera, five species of Necrophorus were caught, a different species 

 in each trap, the sixth trap contained two species of Sdpha ; he also reported 

 non-success in getting the larvae oi' Phri/xus livornica to pupate, abundance of 

 Aryyunis aylaia, fair numbers of Plehcius oeyon, the apparent disa])i)earance 

 oi Melanaryia tjalatea from W. Kent, and tliat nearly everything in Ciiptivity 

 was makiu"- a seccnd broml. 



