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the structure, sexual dimorphism, colour, pattern, habits, and meta- 

 morphoses of the species of the subfamily. As bearmg on some 

 remarks made in the " Retrospect " for 1909, it is interesting to quote 

 one sentence in which Mr. Arrow, referring to the fact that though 

 the literature is extensive, but little serious scientific study has been 

 devoted to the group, says, "of the metamorphoses and habits of the 

 species we know lamentably little." If this is true of the species of 

 a family which contains some of the most brilliant and striking of 

 all animal forms, how much more so is it true of the thousands of 

 obscure and minute species which swell all our lists of coleoptera. 

 Mr. Arrow has described a large number of new species, and is to 

 be warmly congratulated on the completion of a monograph which 

 must have involved a large amount of research and laborious investi- 

 gation. Mr. Arrow has by this monograph added to his reputation 

 as an entomologist of the first rank. 



The second volume Indian Insect Life, by H. Maxwell Lefroy and 

 F. M. Howlett, is of course only partly devoted to coleoptera ; it 

 contains many beautiful illustrations, and will be found to be full of 

 interest to all entomologists, especially to those who turn their 

 attention to the economic side of the subject. 



Two excellent papers have appeared in no. xvii. of the Mewoirex 

 de la Soc. Ent. Behjique, namely, a Revision des Prionides, by Prof. A. 

 Lameere, and Katalog der Staphyliniiden Gattiinr/en, by Dr. F. 

 Eichelbaum. 



Considerable progress has been made during the year with the 

 Coleopternrum Catalof/iis, edited by Schenkling, and published by Herr 

 Junk ; 26 parts have now appeared, such important families as the 

 Lucanidoe, Tenebrionidae, Fiisteridae, Aphodiinae, etc., have been 

 dealt with. 



The year which has just closed has been a fruitful one ; the 

 number of earnest workers is increasing, less attention is being paid to 

 mere collecting, and more and more to the elucidation of the many 

 problems of surpassing interest which confront every thoughtful 

 entomologist. 



CURRENT NOTES. 



Dr. David Sharp has announced {Ent. Mo. Ma;/.) two species of Bledius 

 new to science. The first, B. annae, closely allied to B. pallipes, he 

 found in 1867 in the friable sandy banks of the river Nith, near 

 Thornhill, and again in the same place in 1910. The second, B. filipes, 

 related to B. pallipes and B. annae, was met with in some numbers 

 by Mr. E. G. Elliman in the clay cliffs of Overstrand, near Cromer, in 

 1897. Dr. Sharp also announces B. terehrans as a species new to 

 Britain. It was taken at Harburn, near Carstairs, in 1866, and has 

 only recently been identified by comparison with examples from the 

 Copenhagen Museum. 



The Annual Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomo- 

 logical Society was held at the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, 

 Liverpool, December 19th, 1910, Mr. R. Newstead, M.Sc, F.E.S., 

 Vice-President, in the chair. The reports of the Council and Hon. 

 Treasurer were read and adopted, and the following members were 

 elected as officers and Council for the ensuing year, viz. — President : 

 S. J. Capper, F.E.S. Vice-Presidents: W. J. Lucas, B.A., C. E. Stott, 



