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societies and magazines is only of value so far as it can be got at after 

 publication by those who would use it, yet, an actual index appears to 

 be the very last thing that some of the societies think about. The 

 index (!) to a volume of the Bulletin delict Societa Entomologica Italiana 

 occupies less than a page ; of the Entomologisk Tidskrift, about a page ; 

 of the Annales de la SociSte Entomologique de Belgique, less than two 

 pages. We have often thought that it would be a great gain to 

 science if the Council of the Entomological Society of London stopped 

 publication for a year and put the whole of its income for the year 

 into a good " general " and " specific " index of the volumes already 

 published, so that the matter hidden away could be more readily 

 reached. Excellent articles lie buried for want of means to reach 

 them, and the keenest workers of today have not the slightest notion 

 of the mines of information that are at their disposal could they possibly 

 work them. "We trust that the continental societies will soon see their 

 way to give a " Special Index " to each volume they publish, and thus 

 offer some clues, by reference to which lepidopterists may know what 

 lies buried in the ponderous tomes of the past. 



Mr. Shuguroff, of Odessa, has published a very useful essay on 

 the remarkable genus Gallimenus, F. de W., in the Revue russe d' Entom., 

 nos. 3-4, p. 176, December, 1906. The work is in Russian, which 

 renders it useless to most western orthopterists, though this is not 

 so serious as it might have been, for the few members of the genus 

 are confined to South Russia and the Levant. The author describes a 

 new species C. brauneri, from the valley of the Don, allied to C. 

 montandoni, Burr, from Wallachia. The difficult synonymy is 

 worked out as follows : — C. pancici, Br., gives way to G. longicollis, 

 Schulth ; G. inflatus, Br., falls before C. dilatatus, Stal ; C. longi- 

 collis, Pieb., is not regarded as synonymous with G. pancici, but 

 more likely as identical with G. montandoni, Burr. A synoptical table 

 of the species is given, unfortunately in Russian ; but the distinctions 

 between the five species is epitomised in a brief Latin synopsis. 



Frings publishes (Soc. Ent., xxii., pp. 89-90) the description of 

 a new hybrid Eutricha hybr. johni, obtained from a cross between 

 E. c/uercifolia, male, and E. populifolia, female. Five males and nine 

 females were bred altogether. 



Mr. E. Saunders gives (E.M.M.) a list of " Addition to the British 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera since 1892." He mentions: Gydnus flavicornis, 

 Fab. found at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, July, 1895 ; Elas- 

 mostethus ferrugatus, Fab. taken at Bangor in July, 1900 ; Pseado- 

 phlaeus waltlii, H.-Sch., taken at West Walton, in Norfolk ; Corizus 

 hyalinus, Fab., taken near Gosfield and Norwich ; Drymus pilicomis, 

 M. & R. ; Ploiariodes baerensprungi, Dohrn, from Esher and the New 

 Forest ; Nabis brevis, Scholtz, from Byfleet and Weybridge ; Salda 

 morio, Zett., from Buxton ; Salda setulosa, Put., at Poole Harbour in 

 August, 1901 ; Xylocoridea brevipennis, Reut., in Richmond Park, 

 March, 1898 ; Myrmecoris gracilis, Sahib., at Fleet ; Megaloceraea 

 (Trigonotylus) brevipes, Jak., on Culbin Sands, near Forres; Poecilo- 

 scytus vulneratus, Wolff, at Yarmouth in September, 1897 ; Plagio- 

 gnathus (Agalliastes) evanescens, Boh., at Colwyn Bay, Augast, 1890 ; 

 ( 'orixa selecta, Fieb., from the Norfolk coast marshes ; and Gorixa 

 saundersi, Kirk., on Chobham Common. 



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