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teen British species. " Lithohius duhoscqni, Brole., a Centipede new to 

 the British fauna," ZooL, August, 1913. " Two species of Haplothrips 

 new to the British fauna," Ent. Mo. Mar/., October 1913. And "Notes 

 on Aeolot/iripidae, with description of a new species," Joitr. Econ. lU'oL, 

 September, 1913. We hope soon to have, from Mr. Bagnall's pen, a 

 few elementary notes illustrated with detailed figures to enable our 

 readers to recognise the members of these obscure orders, some species 

 of which are of especial importance from an economic point of view. 



A small but very interesting Exhibition of Photographs has recently 

 been held at the Royal Photographic Society's rooms by members of the 

 Nature Photographic Society. There were 132 very choice examples of 

 nature photographs, including work by most of the well-known 

 specialists. Mr. Hugh Main exhibited several of his beautifully executed 

 life-histories, of which the series of the Maple-leaf-cutter Sawfly, of the 

 Nest-making of rolijdesmvft co)iiplanatus (a centipede), of the Water- 

 beetle {DijticHs mar<iinalis) and of the Glow-Avorm were probably the 

 best. Mr. A, E. Tonge showed a set of photographs of the eggs of 

 British Butterflies and a most wonderful case of protective resemblance 

 in Bryupliila (jlandifera on a lichen covered wall. Mr. C. W. Colthrup 

 showed several sets of the resting attitudes of British moths in their 

 natural surroundings admirably illustrating their protective resem- 

 blance. Mr. A. H. Hamm showed the resting habits of several British 

 butterflies including a print of the marvellous resemblance in the case 

 of Eucldd'e carda}iiiiies. Among other exhibitors were Messrs. A. 

 P'rost, Somerville Hastings, Grace Kearton, C. G. Pike, T. M. Black- 

 man, F. Martin Duncan, etc. 



Jl^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



" lra)isactio)ifi of the Cardiff Nattiralists' Society.'' Vol. xlv., 1912 

 (pp. 128 + vi.). — Less than one-third of this volume is taken up with 

 natural history strictly so called, of which our colleague Mr. J. R. leB. 

 Tomlin, M.A., F.E.S., occupies some eighteen pages by a first instal- 

 ment of a very full annotated " Catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Glamorgan." There are also several pages of entomological notes by 

 other contributors. Like many of our provincial societies, this Society 

 has in the past scarcely carried on sufficient definite biological work to 

 justify the words "Natural History" in its title, and we are pleased to 

 have the opportunity of appreciating earnest endeavours to break from 

 this custom. From Mr. Tomlin's introductory remarks we find that 

 there are in Glamorganshire but few active present-day workers in 

 biological science, although there have been a few notable students in 

 the past. Much of the area has, however, never been worked syste- 

 matically, and it is hoped that the present summary may be an 

 incentive to the younger generation with their greater leisure and 

 opportunities to take up some line of investigation in nature. We 

 quote from the notes an item of more than local interest: "The 

 extremely local Nebria couiplanata, L., one of the finest of the British 

 ground beetles, was described as new to science by Fabricius in 1792, 

 under the name of Carabiifi areiiariiis, in ignorance of the prior Linnean 

 name, on specimens sent him from the Glamorganshire coast by the 

 famous Sir Joseph Banks." Mr. Tomlin would be pleased to obtain 

 any records which he does not possess of the district, and he would 

 particularly like to ascertain where the late W. G. Blatch recorded his 



