20 



■Jaiinarj", 



R. S. TJagnall (Trans. Nat. Hist, Soc. Nortlumib. etc. ii. s. iii, 1910) from tlie 

 Northumljerlaiid and the Yoiksliire Coasts. This last is, I believe, the most 

 southern locality recorded fur tliis insect previous to the present note. The 

 further distribution of the species includes N. America, Greenland, Spits- 

 bergen, Lapland, and Finland. — Jajies M. JJkown, 176 Carter Knowle Eoad, 

 Sheffield : December i)tfi, 1920. 



"Transactions of the Cakbiff Natt^ralists' Society,'' Vol. li. 

 1918. (Published 1920.) 



A third of this volume of 90 pages is devoted to Entomology, in the form 

 of a List of the Diptera of Glamorgan by Col. J. W. Yerbury. Of the (lot) 

 species enumerated, more than 90 per cent, were captured by the author,who ha.s 

 also increased the value of the List by including various interesting iield-notes 

 on his captures. Heavy additions could undoubtedly soon be made to this List, 

 but a number of species are included which would have long eluded the net of 

 a less experienced collector than Col. Yerbury. One notices various minor 

 misprints, and on page 54 a more serious omission of the heading "Emjndidae " 

 between lines lo and 16 from below. — J. E. C. 



< / " A Naturalist in Himalaya." By R. W. G. Kingston. Pp. xii4- 



800, with a map and several Plates. London : H. F. & G. Witherby, 1920. 



This work teems with observations on insect-life as observed by the author 

 during a long residence in Southern Plazarti, a district in the Western Himalaya 

 bordering the Indus. About half the book is devoted to entomological subjects, 

 to which the present notice is necessarily limited. The harvesting-ants {Messor 

 barhitrtis and ^limalayanns) are first dealt with, their general habits, the effect 

 on them of heat, cold, shade, rain, etc., their sense of smell, mode of defence, 

 and migration, being noticed in great detail. AVe then have an account of the 

 carnivorous ants (Myrmecocyslus seiipes), and the "communicating" and other 

 ants {PhekloU' indica, Creinasfof/dster, Acnntholtpis, and Caiitponotus) : four 

 chapters in all on ants. In Chapter X the insect studies are resumed, and the 

 habits of various Asilids, l^ofonccUi, respa orientnlis and maywjica, PoUstes 

 /lehraens, Apis dorsctta and indica, Buutbus tunicatus and haemorrlioidalis, Mvyii- 

 chile cephatotes, Eunienes diniidiafipennis, and Pmmmophila tydei, recorded. 

 Next, Chapter XI, we have a few observations on Lepidoptera — Papilio pohjctor, 

 NytJta parisatis, Lihythcii myrrlia (one of the few butterflies observed by the 

 author to be attacked by insectivorous birds, and said to tumble to the ground 

 and sham death when alarmed), Melanitis, Gnophos, Boarr>.ia, Abraxas sylrafa, 

 Anonychia rostrifera, etc. The structure of the musical organ of a Cicada 

 {Platylomiu b7-evis,(S)is, described at length and illustrated on pp. 209-217; 

 the author, after making numerous experiments, states that the mechanism is 

 the most wonderful and perfect of its kind that he has ever been privileged to 

 see. In Chapter XII is given an account of the habits and luminosity of glow- 

 worms (Lauipyris), and of their contests with snails: fourteen hours are stated 



