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a long list of additional species recorded for the district by the editor. 

 It is somewhat a pity that the nomenclature of the species contains all 

 the altered names of the Staintonian period and not the original 

 appellatives to which we have in the main returned during the last 

 few years. The editor has done his work very carefully and given all 

 contributors their full acknowledgement both for opinions and facts. 

 The complete work forms a standard book on the district comprised 

 and should be a great stimulus for further work. 



The Annual Report of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society generally contains a few papers of an informative character of 

 more than local interest. The present Report for 1912, just to hand, 

 is in no way behind its predecessors in this respect. Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthorpe contributes a very valuable paper, " Some Remarkable 

 Associations between Ants of Different Species." Mr. Donisthorpe 

 gives a table by Emery, with additions of his own, which comprises 

 many species of ants associated with others in various ways and for 

 various reasons, and subsequently deals in detail with most of the 

 included species. Mr. Claude Morley contributes a long paper on 

 " Ichneumons " in its extended sense, dealing generally with the whole 

 of the parasitical Hymenoptera, referring to the technical details and 

 characters necessary for the study of these insects, and to many of the 

 most interesting life- histories of species typical of the various families. 

 Not the least interesting item in the Report is the personal reminis- 

 cences of the late Life-president of the Society, Samuel James Capper, 

 by Mr. F. N. Pierce, containing as it does autobiographical notes on 

 incidents and active members of the Society. In the Council's Report 

 we read that ouc old friend Mr. Mansbridge will soon have the first 

 part of the Local List of Lepidoptera ready for press, and that Mr. 

 Pierce's " Genitalia of the British Geometrfe " is rapidly approaching 

 completion. The accounts for the year show a balance of ^25. We 

 never like to see more than a nominal balance, believing that the 

 members are entitled each year to have their " money's worth " from a 

 Society. In this case, however, there is a definite object in accumu- 

 lating the balance, a praiseworthy object too, viz., to publish the Local 

 List we have referred to above. 



The Volume of the Nataral Histonj of the British Bntterfiies, which 

 was left unfinished by the late J. W. Tutt at his death, is gradually 

 approaching completion. Part XV. has just come to hand containing 

 the remainder of the Life History of Aricia medon (astrarche). Two 

 further species of which the notes are in hand have to be dealt with, 

 viz., Li/caena avion and Haineavis [Neiiieobiiis) lucina. If any of Mr. 

 Tutt's numerous collaborateurs have details of these two species in 

 their hands, the Rev. George Wheeler, who is kindly arranging the 

 matter for the press, would be pleased to receive them as soon as 

 possible. 



j^OCIE TIE S. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — Mavch 21th. — Donation. — Mr. B. H. Smith gave two specimens of 

 Phvi/xiis licnrnica to the Society's collection. C. exulis. — Mr. R. 

 Adkin exhibited several specimens of Cryniodes exulis from Shetland 



