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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



Fam. 3. Labudj. 



Fam. -i. LiIlbiduridx. 



Fam. 5. Forficulid^ 



Subfam. ALLOSTEXHlNiE . 



,, esphalmenin^. 



,, Brachylabin/e. 



,, Pyragrin^. 



,, LABIDURINiE. 



,, PSALIN*. 



Subfam. Auchenomin^. 



,, Chelisochin^. 



,, CHELIDDRINiE. 



,, ANECHDRINa:. 



,, Ancistrogastrin* . 



j ,, FORFICULIN^. 



,, Opisthocosmiin*. 



This looks healthy. A classification in which the families and 

 subfamilies are already capable of being definitely separated, suggests 

 that the further study of the group will soon divulge the characters on 

 which the genera can be grouped into their respective tribes within 

 these subfamilies. No doubt Mr. Burr finds his visual grip of the 

 groups ahead of his power to define the differences he sees in words, 

 but this is so with everyone who is pushing ahead, and the power of 

 definition comes with further study and greater knowledge, and one 

 suspects that we shall soon have a fairly complete and rational classifi- 

 cation of the Dermaptera on phylogenetic lines. In the meantime, 

 Mr. Burr asks for criticism, destructive and constructive, especially 

 the latter. 



Dr. Wood, m his revision of l^liora, adds more new species to the 

 British list and to science ; thus there are Plwra ohsrnripennis, P. 

 conformu, P. huiiiilis, P. alticolella, P. hortensis, P. nitpipea, P. umjui- 

 cularis, P. harhidata, P. beckeri, P. fmu/irora, P. alhipennis, P. sordida, 

 P. altifrons, P. plearalix, P. direraa, P. cariabilis, P. snbpleiiralis, P. 

 frontalis, P. iufraposita, P. reruaiis, P. rilipes, P. scutellaris, all new to 

 science, and /'. melanwephala, v. Ros., and P. hitea, Mg., new to the 

 British list, but already described. 



A paper on "The cross-breeding of two races of Aciilalia vinfularia," 

 with the statistical results obtained and tabulated, and the bearing of 

 these results on the question of Mendelism, by Messrs. A. W. Bacot 

 and L. B. Prout, has just been published in the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society, B., vol. 81, pp. 1B3-150. It is a most illuminating 

 paper, but must be read by those interested to be properly appreciated. 

 It is already a summary, and further summarising would not leave 

 any clear mental picture of the results. 



We have received from India, from our friend, Lt.-Col. Manders, a 

 request that reads as follows : •' In the last number of the Trans. Knt. 

 Soc. Lond., is a paper by Mr. Moulton ' On some of the principal 

 Mimetic (Miillerian) combinations of Tropical American Ikitterflies,' 

 and as an addendum to this paper, on p. 608, is a heading ' Certain 

 Miillerian combinations among the Danainae of the Old World,' illus- 

 trated by plate xxxiv. The figures are of three common Euploeas said to 

 form a Miillerian combination. Would you please exhibit on my 

 behalf, or your own, ' a combination of Pierines from the County of 

 Middlesex,' riz., Pieris brassirae, P. rapae, and P. napi- If you should 

 be asked at the meeting what evidence you have of tasting experiments 



