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dorsum. [A ,^ and 2 specimen of M. aestiinaiia also emerged to-day, 

 the larva? having been taken at Ste. Maxime on August 28th.] (5) A 5th 

 larva found to-day is shaped like the Dun-i/niiuii proboscis- beetle larv;e 

 which I reared last June. It is pale green with a whitish dorsal stripe, 

 and of a somewhat LyCcenid shape. I think it is the larva of a com- 

 mon little green proboscis-beaked beetle found on tamarisk. I found 

 another curious little beetle on this tree, deep mahogany colour. — H. 

 Powell, 7, Rue Mireille, Hyeres, France. Sejitfiuber llt/i, 1904. 



The egg and young larva of Polygonia c-album. — [Three eggs 

 laid on the setting board by a 5 in the possession of Mr. Foljambe. 

 Handed to me on the afternoon of April 14th.] The eggs were then 

 bright green. Shape, truncated cone, rounding off abruptly near the 

 base, which has a circular depression. Between the edge of this 

 depression and the micro pylar circle on top run eleven tall thin 

 transparent ribs. These ribs are marked with numerous transverse 

 ridges, in continuation of the transverse ribs on the egg surface, where 

 they are not at all conspicuous. The surface of the egg is fairly smooth 

 aud very shiny. The walls increase in height towards the top of 

 the egg. The inicropylar area, around the edge of which the 

 walls come to an end, is shiny and smooth except in the centre, which 

 is raised slightly in the form of a granular pimple. Height, nearly 

 0*8mm. ; greatest width, O'Tmm. One egg turned to a dark leaden 

 colour during the day (15th) and hatched in the early morning of 

 April 16th. The other two remain green. Larva : Length on 

 hatching 2-2mm. Appearance under lena : Head, large, black and 

 shiny, rather flattened in front ; lobe divisions distinct. Body, 

 whitish-grey banded with brown ; hairy. The little larva is active, 

 getting along pretty quickly, but always spinning a thread of silk. 

 Appearance under microscupe : Head shiny black, with numerous long- 

 black hairs. Ground-colour livid whitish, with suffused patches of 

 light brown on abdominal segments, namely, on 1st, 8rd, 5th, 7th and 

 8th. These patches occupy all the dorsal area of the segments named. 

 The thoracic segments are greenish, although the larva has as yet 

 eaten nothing. Body tubercles are large, conical, and of the colour 

 of the surface from which they arise. Each one terminates in a long 

 black hair, more or less waved. These hairs are stiff'-looking. — Ibid. 



Ji^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Coleoptera of the Victoria History of the County of 

 Warwick, 1904, by H. Willoughby Ellis. — In reviewing the present 

 list we are glad to see that Mr. Ellis has been given a free hand, of 

 which he has taken the utmost advantage, and instead of a bare list of 

 names such as we have had to deplore in others of this series (though 

 not the fault of the authors, their hands having been tied), we find 

 copious notes on habits, localities, times of the year when species may 

 be met with, and other points of interest, all of which go far to make 

 a local list more useful to the entomological visitor in those parts, as 

 well as to the resident collector. A county, or other, list, can never be 

 considered to be complete, as new species keep cropping up even after 

 years of careful and persistent work; as was the case with Tlhytidosoiiius 

 globulus taken by Messrs. Blatch and Ellis at Knowle ; but we do not 

 hesitate to say that this list represents the complete coleoptera of 



