236 THE entomologist's record. 



(grURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Enquirers as to the authorship of Current Notes please note : — 

 " Current Notes are, as a rule, contributed by the Acting Editor who 

 is responsible for them. Those contributed by the other Editors or by 

 correspondents have initials attached." — E7it. Record, Vol. xxiv., p. 128 

 (1912). 



We regret to announce the death, on November 29tb, 1912, of Miss 

 E. E. Mazaraky, corresponding Member of the Russian Entomological 

 Society, at the very early age of 26. Miss Mazaraky did not contribute 

 to the literature of Entomology, but her loss is deeply felt in St. 

 Petersburg, where she regularly enlivened meetings by her genial 

 presence, and greatly helped her uncle, V. V. Mazaraky, the hard- 

 working treasurer. — M.B. 



The same Society more recently suffered another loss in the person 

 of Count Michael Nikolaievitch Rostovtseff, in his forty-fourth year. 

 Count Restovtseff was not much J^nownin Entomological circles out- 

 side St. Petersburg, but many personal friends will deplore the absence 

 of this charming and gifted man. In 1908 he made large collections 

 of insects in Southern Italy and Northern Africa, which he handed 

 over to his friend A. P. Semenoft'-TianShansky. — M.B. 



Mr. A. E. J. Carter, in the Ent. Mo. Mof/. for August, introduces 

 two species of Lhimohiidae (Diptera) new to Britain. Dicranomijia 

 rti/ivcutria taken in Perthshire has been recorded from Finland hitherto. 

 AcypJtona arenlata was taken at Musselburgh, Midlothian, in July, 1906, 

 and is another species hitherto only recorded from Finland. 



Mr. R. S. Bagnall has contributed an article on the remarkable 

 new order of insects, the Protura of Silvestri, to I\nnniei}<ie, vol. ix., 

 p. 215 (1912). The study of these minute, most primitive insects, 

 besides being of extreme interest, will probably turn out to be of con- 

 siderable economic importance to agriculturalists and horticulturalists. 



Mr. D. Sharp, in the July number of the Ent. Mo. Ma;/., adds a new 

 Coleopteron (Jri/ptobiion. brevipenne to the British fauna. Hitherto this 

 species has been confused with C. fracticorne, which is the rarer insect 

 and was only recently discovered by Mr. Ford at Bournemouth, and 

 afterwards rightly determined. He also announces four species of 

 Homalota, new to science, which had long previously been confounded 

 under the name H. fuvf/icola. He has named them H. reperta, from 

 Brockenhurst, in a hollow beech; H. inoptata, with the former species; 

 H. (jijnandrua, only one specimen, with the two last species ; and H. 

 sabquadrata from the same locality. 



Several other new species of Coleoptera are announced in the July 

 number of the Ent. Mo. Alag. Mr. Newbery describes a species of 

 Apion, found by Dr. C. F. Selous by sweeping mixed herbage at Barton- 

 on-Sea, as new to science under the name Apion selou.iL It is near to 

 A. cerdo. Mr. Joy describes three species of Staphylinids as new to 

 science ; (1) Atheta britteni, fronci flood rubbish, Langwathly, Cumber- 

 land ; (2) TroiinpJdofUK liemcrinus, from burrows in the mudbanks at 

 Anthorn-on-Solway, Cumberland, in company with Jlledins atricapillus, 

 obtained by Mr. Day ; and (3) TIrinobius lonijicornis, from flood-rubbish 

 at Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire. 



An example of a Scoparia, " in good condition, without label," 

 " taken some years ago in the neighbourhood of Chester," "probably 



