46 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



was of opinion that the food plant of Ceatlwrhynchm setoms, Boh., is 

 SisymbriiDii thaUannm, or the Thale Cress ; Commander "Walker also 

 found this insect on the same plant. Dr. Chapman published a note 

 {loc. cit. p. 260) on the destructive habits of Myelophilus piniperda, L. ; 

 the note detailed some observations made by the author at Ewhurst, 

 Surrey, on September 24th last ; Mr. H. G. Champion described {loc. 

 cit., p. 281) a similar incident from Oxford, and pointed out that this 

 destructive habit was already well known, full accounts were given in 

 Dr. Schlich's Manual of Forestry, vol. 4, p. 265 ; it is desirable to point 

 out that Canon Fowler in his British Coleoptera, vol. 5, p. 419, also 

 described in detail the great damage that this beetle often caused in 

 pine forests. Mr. G. C, Champion published a note {loc. cit., p. 261) 

 on the sexual characters of Lonyitarsus ayilis, Rye ; he took a large 

 number of examples of this species at Seaton, Devon, last autumn, on 

 Scrophidaria nodosa, and apparently all the fully winged examples 

 were females. In another note the same gentleman drew attention 

 {loc. cit., p. 279) to the fact that Polydrnsus chrysomela, Olive, and 

 conjiuens, Steph., were apterous, and suggested that they should be 

 placed in the genus Eusomus. Canon Fowler had a note {loc. cit., p. 

 262) on a beetle which produces eloquence ; the natives of certain 

 districts in East Africa eat this particular beetle {Melaspis ylahripennis) 

 in order to acquire the gift of eloquence and conviction. Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm {loc. cit., p. 137) published a valuable note on the life history 

 of Cetonia anrata, L., and on the diii'erences between the larvte of that 

 species and those of C. Jioricola, Herbst. ; the two larvae move in quite 

 a different manner. Dr. Cameron has described {loc. cit., pp. 135 and 

 179) two new species of the longicorn genus Pentomacriis, serratus and 

 distinctus — from Haiti ; and a new species of Sunius, yattoi — from 

 Malta. 



In the four parts of the Transactions of the Entom.oloyical Society 

 of London for 1910, issued up to the close of the year, the only 

 paper dealing with coleoptera was a short one by Dr. Joy on the 

 behaviour of coleoxjtera m time of floods, in which the author 

 described his field observations and experiments on the power many 

 Steni and other beetles possess of " skimming" over the water. 



The publication of a new local list, " The Coleoptera of the 

 Hastings District," was begun this year ; the first part appeared in 

 May last in the Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist, vol. i., no. 5, and 

 has been reprinted as a separatum; the fact that its author is the 

 well-known Hastings entomologist, Mr. W. H. Bennett, ensures that 

 this list when completed will be quite equal in accuracy and com- 

 pleteness to the best local lists which have so far appeared. 



Two of the valuable series of books dealing with the fauna of 

 British India, published under the authority of the Secretary of 

 State for India, which have appeared this year, deal with coleoptera. 

 The first, by Mr. G. J. Arrow, is a monograph on the Indian species 

 of Cetoniinae Sbud Dynastinae ; it is illustrated by numerous woodcuts 

 and two beautiful coloured plates, and is published by Messrs. Taylor 

 and Francis, London. The volume opens with a systematic index of 

 all the known Indian species of the subfamilies ; then follows an 

 introduction of 23 pages, dealing with the structure, life-history, 

 and classification of the Lainellicornia ; the descriptions of the 

 Indian species of each subfamily are preceded by general notes on 



