288 THE entomologist's record, 



the genus llespcria in Belgium. That no less than eight species of 

 this genus should occur in a continental area so closely adjoining our 

 own country, which has only one, is a most remarkable fact. That 

 there can be little doubt as to the reliability of this list we are assured, 

 since all the specimens upon which it is based have been submitted to 

 M. Reverdin of Geneva for verification. Dates and localities appear to 

 be also reliable. . The list is as follows: — Hespnia sao, hi. cartJiaini, 

 H. aerratnlae, //. alreiia (four undoubted specimens), H. alveiia var. 

 fouhjuii'vi (two undoubted specimens), //. aniion'ramis, H. cirfiii (one 

 undoubted specimen), //. onnpnrdi (one undoubted specimen), H. 

 malvae, and H. mcdrae var. tarns. The writer also records a specimen 

 of H. mali-ac g , typical on the left side and var. tarafi on the right 

 side, taken at Ilockai, Belgium, June 22nd, 1912. 



Parts IV. and V. of the Aunales de la Socictc Kufoiiwlot/iijiie ilc 

 JU'h/iqKe, 1918, contain a number of papers on Coleoptera, mainly 

 exotic, one each on Hemiptera and Ants, and hy Baron de Crombrugghe 

 de Picquendaele, a series of notes on the Micro-lepidoptera of Belgium, 

 supplementary to his Catalogue raisonne. 



In the Atiumaemii for May 17th, in a Review on " The Supplement 

 to the Coleoptera of the British Isles," by Canon Fowler and H. St, J. 

 K. Donisthorpe, we note the following appreciative remarks on our 

 esteemed colleague: — "Mr. Donisthorpe's notes are beyond praise, and 

 all too few, proving him to be, if proof were necessary, a shrewd and 

 careful observer. We note specially his essay on the Myrmecophilous 

 Coleoptera of Great Britain, which gives the life-histories and habits 

 of several of the species belonging to this most interesting group." 



From 1871 to 1882 there appeared in the old Saitthh Nattiralist, as 

 part of Dr. F. Buchanan White's Insecta Scotica a series of notes by 

 Mr. D. Sharp on the " Coleoptera of Scotland." In the July number 

 of the present Scottish Naturalist Mr. Anderson Ferguson has 

 commenced a supplement to those articles based largely on the recently 

 published vol. vi. of the Coleoptera of the British Isla)ids, by Canon 

 Fowler and Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, but containing many local 

 records and notes, to which those authors did not at the time have 

 access. 



Mr. Willoughby Gardner informs us that the " types " of micro- 

 lepidoptera in the collection of the late Thomas Boyd have been placed 

 in the National Collection at South Kensington Museum, by Mrs. W. 

 C. Boyd, of Waltham Cross. 



M. A. Janet notes. Bull. Sor. Ent. Fr., p. 290, 1913, that the 

 first figure on plate 94, vol. ix., of Seitz's Macrolepidoptera Fauna hid. 

 Anstralica, IHnrna, represents under the name Anadehis batiiiara a 

 Satyrid coming from Tonkin treated in the text as a local form of A. 

 diadeiiioides, Moore, described by Fnihstorfer in Iris. Vol. xx., p. 253 

 (1907). This form is none other than that described by him (M. Janet) 

 in the Bull. Sac Ent. Fr., p. 216, 1896, under the name Zethera 

 noirei. The type and co-type of this last with the plate from Seitz 

 for comparison were exhibited at the meeting of the Society on 

 June 25th. 



In the Bev. Mens. Soc. Ent. Nainur., of July, a new form of 

 I'arascotia (lioletobia) ftdininaria is announced by M. J. Guerin. This 

 aberration, which the author names ab. hrabantaria, after the late 

 M. Brabant a distinguished entomologist of N. France, is characterized 

 by the under surface of all the wings being of a uniformly white 



