74 THE entomologist's EECORD. 



memoirs are by the Comte Carl Attems (Myriopoda), Don Ignacio 

 Bolivar (Orthoptera), Dr. Raphael Blanchard (Hirudina), and Mr. Louis 

 Germain (Mollusca). Besides these there are records of the Crustaceans, 

 Arachnida, Insecta (of other orders than Orthoptera), and Vertebrates, 

 met with. A map of the district should help to make the journey easy 

 to some of our students of Pahiearctic lepidoptera, a group of insects 

 totally ignored by Mr. de Kerville. The illustrations are in every way 

 excellent. 



"Insect Stories," by Professor Vernon L. Kellogg (G. Bell & Sons), 

 is a most charming volume, written with excellent skill and knowledge, 

 and comprising many interesting episodes of insect life. The wonder- 

 ful way in which Annuophila stores up the paralysed bodies of lepi- 

 dopterous larvae for the future grub; the importation of Vedalia to 

 combat the ravages of Icerya in the orange-trees ; the result of a fight 

 between FAirypehna, the giant tarantula of California, and a Pepsin 

 wasp ; the habits of the ant-lion larva, and many other delightful 

 insect stories, as accurate and true as they are well-written, makes this 

 one of the most delightful gift books that an older naturalist could 

 give to a younger one after he had pleasurably read it himself (A.O.). 



The annual presidential address to the members of the Societe 

 Entomologique de Belgique, delivered by the Baron G. de Crombrugghe 

 de Picquendaele, contains a very interesting resume of the modern 

 system of the classification of the AlncithJes. It is by far the most 

 farsighted pronouncement on the stibject that has yet appeared on the 

 continent, and, in his sympathetic appreciation of the work done in 

 vol. V. of A JSatural Histonj of British Lepidoptera, he shows a clearer 

 grip of the details necessarily involved in the classification of the 

 " plumes " on biological grounds than any continental entomologist 

 appears yet to have done. His own contributions to the life-histories 

 of certain species are most interesting and important. 



Mr. E. A. Butler adds (Ji/mus obliqttKs, Horv., to the list of British 

 hemiptera, the species occurring commonly in the Hastings district in 

 damp places on Solanum diilramara. 



Dr. Wood is still adding new species of PJwra to the British list, 

 and to science. His latest additions are Plmra crassipes (Stoke Wood, 

 August, 1906), P. arviata (Stoke, August), P. nudis (Stoke Wood, 

 July to October), P. affinis (Middle Park Pool, Yackhill Marsh, etc., 

 July to September), P. ciliata, Zett.,and P. aeqnalis (widely distributed 

 and very common), P. fiarescens {Y{.n,ngh. Wood, May- August ; Cold- 

 borough Park, October), /'. lonf/iseta (widely distributed in Hereford- 

 shire, May-August), P. riralis (banks of river Monnow, July 31st, 1908), 

 P. surdifrons (Stoke Wood, August, 1906), /'. parra (woods near 

 Tarrington, May-June ; sent also from Scotland by Malloch), P. 

 viallochi (Bonhill, April and September), F. (/labrifrons [Bonhill, April- 

 May (? hybernated) and autumn] , P. propinqiia (Tarrington, Tram 

 Inn, May-June and autumn), P. minor (Shobdon Marsh, July 18th, 

 1906 ; Middle Park Pool, September 1st, 1906), P. uliyinosa (Shobdon 

 Marsh, etc., July to October), P. jiava (common and widely distributed, 

 summer and autumn), P. collini (woods near Tarrington, May-June, 

 September- October) . 



A very interesting discussion of the early stages of the iEgeriids or 

 clearwing moths, took place at the meeting of the South London Ento- 

 mological Society on February llLh. The interest chiefly lay in the 



