224 THE entomologist's record. 



ballus, a few worn Parayt/e inei/acra and I'l/rmiieis cardiii, while half-a- 

 dozen IV/fl/s ruinina rustled out of the grass at our approach, and were 

 easily caught. The sandflies had evidently not yet emerged, but there 

 were many bees about, and also plenty of lizards. 



With the greatest regret, we left Eonda, and turned our faces in 

 the direction of home, to find that bad weather had been general 

 throughout the whole of the Peninsula as well as in the West of 

 Europe generally ; crossing the Guadarramas, the snow lay thickly in 

 the pinewoods, and in patches reached even to the railway line. No 

 doubt, although we only had two really bad days during the month, 

 there was something in the meteorological conditions that was 

 uncongenial to insect-life, affecting it even in Andalusia. 



Review of Field Work in 1911. 



By RICHARD S. BAGNALL, F.L.S., F.E.S. (Hope Department of Zoology, 

 University Miisevjii, Oxford). 



During the year 1911 my opportunities for field-work and 

 entomological study were few, and yet the results were more than 

 satisfactory. 



As President of the field section of the Natural History Society of 

 Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I made a point 

 of not only attending each meeting — ^sometimes at considerable 

 inconvenience — but of devoting such time as I could to one group of 

 Arthropods, of which little was previously known as regards the local 

 (and indeed the British) fauna and distribution. Happily, I chose the 

 Myriopods, partly on account of the interesting features — so suggestive 

 of (J mil pod ea — seen in Scolopendrella, of which I gathered some 

 hundreds of specimens. 



With the exception of a few hours in the New Forest and at 

 Blackgang Chine in the Isle of Wight on the occasion of the British 

 Association Meeting at Portsmouth, my collecting . outside field 

 meetings was practically confined to the immediate vicinity of my late 

 home in Penshaw, Co. Durham. 



In my Presidential Report to the Society 1 remarked that altogether 

 the year had been an extraordinarily fruitful one, the additions to the 

 local fauna numbering somewhere between two and three hundred, and 

 the additions to the British fauna being summarised as follows : — One 

 order (Protuea, Silvestri), four families (Acereiitoiiiidd , Silv., and 

 Eoseiitomidae, Berlese, in the Protiira, Biachypaiiropodidac, Hansen 

 in the Pauropoda, and Brachychaeteninidae (nov.), Verhoetf, in the 

 Diplopoda, several genera, and about sixty species, of which thirteen or 

 fourteen were new to science. 



It may prove interesting to make a brief resume of these captures. 



Myriopoda. — The ]\Iyriopods, of which over sixty local species 

 were met with, may be taken in their four divisions, the main 

 additions being made by a special study of the small creatures 

 comprising the orders Pauropoda and Si/m/dn/la. 



Pauropoda. — For a long time the two species described by the late 

 Lord Avebury remained alone as British. We now know six in the 

 North, of which Brac/iypanropKs lubbocki, BagnalP'', is the first British 

 representative of the Bravhypauropodidae. 



* Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle, n.s., 

 vol. iv., pp. 59-60, 1911. 



