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already made acquaintance with it, I need not say more about it now. 

 An enterprising American, S. F. Denton, has completed a book on 

 moths and butterflies of the United States " with 400 photographic 

 illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life." We 

 are told in the advertisement that " after much experiment the author 

 has succeeded in perfecting the art of transferring from the wings of 

 real moths and butterflies to a prepared plate paper the millions of 

 tiny scales in all their perfection, fixing the gorgeous colours and 

 luminous iridescence just as brilliantly as when the insects were alive." 

 I have not yet had an opportunity of studying this new departure, but 

 as the price of the work is only a little over £20, perhaps you will all 

 like to order copies for yourselves. Some useful handbooks may com- 

 plete my list. Such are Kirby's Familiar Butterfiies and Moths ; a new 

 French edition of Berge, by the Abbe de Joannis, which I have not 

 seen, but which ought to be good, if that very able entomologist has 

 revised the text as well as translating ; a new edition of Hofmann, 

 commenced by Dr. Spuler, and promising very well ; and a Russian 

 translation of Standfuss' celebrated Handbiich. 



Retrospect of a Coleopterist for 1901. 



By Piioi-EssoK T. HUDSON BEARE, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.E.S. 



I propose in the present article to deal only with the work of British 

 entomologists, reserving some notes on the work of our foreign friends 

 for a future article. In the January number of the Ent. Mo. Ma<i (vol. 

 xxxvii., p. 1) I gave an account of the additions to our list of British 

 coleoptera during the two years 1899-1900, and was then able to 

 chronicle eleven additions, one removal, and the confirmation of three 

 doubtful species. The past year has been singularly unfruitful in this 

 respect, practically the only genuine additions have been the varieties 

 and aberrations of species of the genus ApJtodiits, brought forward by 

 Mr. F. Bouskell in his paper on " The Variation and Distribution of 

 the genus Apliodins." This paper is most interesting, because it deals 

 very fully with the distribution and variation of the species in a genus 

 found in all parts of the world, and the author discusses very thoroughly 

 the causes of variation and the means of dispersal of insects. 



In the January number of Tlte Annals of Scottish Xatural History, 

 p. 24, the Rev. H. S. Gorham described a species of Stcnoloplnts, 

 apparently new to science and to Britain, to which he gave the name 

 of iikijiiatiis. From the locality in which it was taken (the banks of the 

 Clyde) I am afraid we must consider this insect as an importation, 

 until it is confirmed by captures elsewhere. Other introduced species 

 are noted in the L'nt. Mo. Maij. (vol. xxxvii., p. 18), namely, Lathridiiis 

 hcnirothi, Reitt., in the herbarium of University College, Nottingham, 

 and Larinus scoh/iiii, Oliv., on flowers of Knautia arvensis at Colchester, 

 and, in the Ent. Record (vol. xiii., p. 219), in a note on " Cosmopolitan 

 Beetles in a London Warehouse," Mr. Newbery records the capture 

 of I'hthora crenata, Muls. All these are thus recorded for the first 

 time, and, in the case of two at least, we may possibly find they will 

 occur again. It is very desirable that such instances of the intro- 

 duction of new species by the agency of man, should at once be put on 

 record as a help in solving the ditficult problems of insect distribution 

 at the present day. 



