114 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



regards Linnaeus as not coming under his rules as to figures being 

 more authoritative than descriptions. 



There are next several plates of Satyrids and other butterflies. 



Plate CXXVII. represents several striking cases of mimicry by 

 Lepidoptera, of Hymenoptera and Diptera. A plate of Agrotids and 

 three of L'atorala follow, and then five of life-histories of Algerian 

 species worked out and drawn by Mr. H, Powell. 



There are seven plates with 137 figures of species of SyrkltthuH, 

 illustrating the important paper on the group, in this volume. 



The photographs, some 59 in number, entitled " Exploration de 

 Harold Powell en Algerie, 1911," are not the least interesting in the 

 volume. The first dozen are from living insects, including 

 Tijinpanophora harohii. The remainder illustrate the country investi- 

 gated, giving the habitats of various Lepidoptera, with the character- 

 istic surroundings of the insects and their foodplants. 



The volume increases our high appreciation of Mr. Powell as a 

 scientific naturalist and observer, as an energetic explorer and collector, 

 and not less as an artist and photographer, and shows what a 

 marvellous amount of work he did in 1911. M. Oberthiir is much to 

 be congratulated in having two such accomplished assistants in his 

 labours as Messieurs Powell and Culot. 



[In Part II. of the current volume of the Aimales Je la Socike 

 Kntoiiiolof/igiie de Belfficjne, M. Paul Dognin gives several pages of 

 notes on the various species discussed in the "Revision des 

 Phalenites " in the above named volume of Kttales, and offering 

 many corrections in the nomenclature of the figures given on the 

 plates of M. Oberthiir. His remarks are confined to the species of the 

 S. American fauna he has referred to, which he has in his own 

 collection.— H.J.T.] 



Coleoptera in Sussex during 1912. 



By HEREWARD C. DOLLMAN, F.E.S. 



The neighbourhood of Ditchling during August and September 

 repaid my collecting there moderately well. On August 30th I was 

 very pleased to come across another example of ilembidiuiii qiiadripiis- 

 tulatiim, Dej., under a stone in a damp part of Spatham Lane sand- 

 pit. MetabletHs tnincatellun, L., a species I have on occasion found 

 " strays " of at Ditchling in previous years, was found in some 

 numbers among moss growing on an old flint wall (September 2nd). 

 The second example of Helophurus porcidus, Bedel., found in the district, 

 was taken off a wall one very wet August day. 



From some foul straw in a farm-yard, on August 20th, I sifted out 

 a few Uxijpoda iraterhoitsei, Rye. This rare beetle I found not un- 

 commonly in stack-refuse in April, 1911. I must thank Dr. David 

 Sharp for " spotting " this little-known form for me. (Kvijpuda annu- 

 laris, Sahib., was secured in nice series by sifting dead beech leaves on 

 September 11th, when one or two of the very uncommon Clwleva 

 nliirita, Er., were also tubed. September 19th gave me an interesting 

 local record in (Jnediiis maiiriis, Sahib, (var. fai/eti, Thoms.), one of 

 which species was found under the bark of a dying oak. (Jiiediusi 

 fnlijiduii, F., recorded before as not uncommon in cow-sheds at 



